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New experience: NPWS South Coast branch director of park operations, Kane Weeks walks with Kiama MP Gareth Ward in the Minnamurra Rainforest. Picture: Adam McLean

Minnamurra Rainforest waterfall viewing platform and track re-open

Ashleigh Tullis

A man was airlifted to the burns unit at Royal North Shore Hospital after an accident at Kembla Grange on Tuesday night. Picture: Robert Peet

Man set himself on fire in Kembla Grange cleaning mishap

Angela Thompson

Steven Flynn. Picture: Facebook

‘No one will know’: Wollongong man accused of grooming girl, 14

Angela Thompson
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Buyers Ann and Paul Hughes, and Santi Enrile, pictured last year. Picture: Robert Peet

‘There’s not much we can do’: Tallowoods buyers outraged

Brendan Crabb
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Charged: Senior Constable Dennis Hoyn is facing 15 public misconduct charges including bribery and accessing restricted police data. Picture: Facebook

Illawarra cop 'bribed' to pass on confidential info to drug syndicate: court

Shannon Tonkin

Award winners Dr Jim Turner, Dr Justin Yerbury, Narayan Khanal with Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery.

Best of the best Wollongong citizens awarded

Ashleigh Tullis

How a humble Bulli train attendant saved a life

Ashleigh Tullis

Ken Politzer. Picture: Facebook

Warrawong man denies ‘kidnapping partner, binding her with cable ties’

Shannon Tonkin

Get set to sizzle on Wollongong’s hottest Australia Day in years

UOW student nurse lauds company’s indigenous scholarship program

Warrawong tot’s trauma, as mum locked door and left

NDIS is failing families, and providers says Wombarra mum

New experience: NPWS South Coast branch director of park operations, Kane Weeks walks with Kiama MP Gareth Ward in the Minnamurra Rainforest. Picture: Adam McLean

Minnamurra Rainforest waterfall viewing platform and track re-open

Excited: Wollongong’s Australia Day Ambassador, Nicki Bowman, and Lord Mayor Gordon Bradbery with Paddington, last year's Peoples Choice and Best Dressed winner in the Ozzy Doggy Show at Belmore Basin. Picture: Robert Peet

Your complete guide to Australia Day in Wollongong

Advocate: Firefighters took part in the Firies Climb for MND to raise money, and support for MND researcher and sufferer Dr Justin Yerbury.

Motor Neurone Disease advocate named Wollongong’s Citizen of the Year

Scenes from last year's Shellharbour Breakfast by the Lake event. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Your guide to Australia day in Shellharbour and Kiama

Ryan Park raised child neglect penalties on the back of a horrific Illawarra case in May (pictured above).

New laws to make child neglect a jail time crime

Amy Angeloska, Emily Noakes, Elise Callaghan and Katie Hayes at Kembla Grange Racecourse.

Time out in the Illawarra: social photos

‘No one will know’: Wollongong man accused of grooming girl, 14

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‘There’s not much we can do’: Tallowoods buyers outraged

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Best of the best Wollongong citizens awarded

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How a humble Bulli train attendant saved a life

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Get set to sizzle on Wollongong’s hottest Australia Day in years

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UOW student nurse lauds company’s indigenous scholarship program

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Talent: Thomas Heaton at the NSW Open. He played at the NSW Amateur titles. Picture: AAP Image/David Moir

Heaton pushes Canadian amateur talent

Impressive: The Illawarra Zone 16 squad played well in finishing third at the Under 25s Challenge at The Hills Bowling Club.

Zone 16 shine at U25s titles

MIKE DRISCOLL

Stars: U16 champion Bailey Meti, runner-up Jack McShane, Open winner Tailor Appleby and finalist Matthew Swan. Picture: Mike Driscoll

Appleby doesn’t fall far from the tree at South Pacific

MIKE DRISCOLL

Talent: Thomas Heaton at the NSW Open. He played at the NSW Amateur titles. Picture: AAP Image/David Moir

Heaton pushes Canadian amateur talent

BEVO’S PLAYBOOK: Tough Perth loss just pokes the Ware

ROB BEVERIDGE

Playing for gold: Illawarra's Josh Mayo. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

Locals set for national finals

Cameron Mee

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LEARNING: Dapto's Caitlin Young with one of the visiting 'dinosaurs' at the Innovation Campus' Science Space on Tuesday. Picture: Robert Peet

Things to do, see and hear around the Illawarra this week

Brendan Crabb

Sunday session: Melbourne band DIET. will be among the line-up at the North Gong Hotel's Hottest 100 party on Sunday.

Gig Guide January 24-27

WALK: Bikers 4 Heroes members Stu Butler (Captain America), Russell Parkinson (Deadpool) and Daniel Barnes (Spiderman). Picture: Adam McLean

Illawarra superheroes to walk among us on Australia Day

Agron Latifi

One of Australia’s top eye surgeons brings his talents to Wollongong

The start of a new year is a great time to review how much your mobile plan is costing you. In 2019 celebrate the peace-of-mind of a Pennytel mobile plan knowing your data usage is covered month to month.

A New Year’s resolution that will be easy to keep

Emma Brown

Don't let cash flow issues tie your business down in 2019. Keep growing with an easy to apply for equipment finance loan from LendingPro.

New year, bigger business

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One of Australia’s top eye surgeons brings his talents to Wollongong

Learning to drive or know someone who is?

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Questacon is an exciting and intriguing concentration of science brought to life in vivid techni-colour.

The ultimate family fun holiday itinerary in Canberra

Emma Elsworthy

Illawarra’s most expensive homes in 2018 – in photos

Brendan Crabb

Pictures: Supplied

‘Nirvana’ near Berry has $3.5m to $4m asking price

Brendan Crabb

NSW property industry confidence down again: survey

Brendan Crabb

CARER: Illawarra resident Nikki Bushell, whose daughter made an attempt on her own life nearly two years ago. Picture: Robert Peet

‘I thought I had to hide every knife’: A mother’s story

Brendan Crabb

QPR ADVOCATES: The Illawarra Hawks playing group undertaking suicide prevention training as part of the #care2qpr campaign. Picture: Sylvia Liber.

Illawarra Hawks join QPR campaign for suicide prevention

Thanks to rehab and psychotherapy Bruce McMillan has sufficiently recovered from his own mental health problems and is now helping others with theirs. Picture: Robert Peet

How talking helped this Wollongong man after years of keeping suicidal thoughts to himself

Lisa Wachsmuth

CARER: Illawarra resident Nikki Bushell, whose daughter made an attempt on her own life nearly two years ago. Picture: Robert Peet

‘I thought I had to hide every knife’: A mother’s story

Those gathered at the Illawarra Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention Collaborative's event in Kiama on Thursday heard from panel members about the success of the LifeSpan project. Pictures: Robert Peet

Celebrating region’s world-class approach to suicide prevention

Lisa Wachsmuth

Judie and Ron Clark with their son Aaron who died by suicide 22 months ago. Picture: Supplied

South Coast mother’s mission after son’s death by suicide

Lisa Wachsmuth

Nursing graduation at Bulli Hospital.

Reunion to celebrate 125 years of service at Bulli District Hospital

More students flocking to TAFE NSW just in time for its open week

Agron Latifi

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Nursing graduation at Bulli Hospital.

Reunion to celebrate 125 years of service at Bulli District Hospital

Hope Solo in action for Seattle Reign. The former US goalkeeper will highlight the inaugural Football Writers’ Festival in Jamberoo on March 23-24. Picture: Craig Mitchelldyer / Associated Press

World Cup winner to highlight Jamberoo football festival

Agron Latifi

FLY IN VISIT: The former French Marine Neptune 566 at HARS Aviation Museum. A French Navy jet crew will visit HARS on Saturday.

French Navy crew to jet into Illawarra Regional Airport for HARS’ visit

Agron Latifi

Picture: Robert Peet

Fuel tanker fire clean up under way at West Wollongong

A still from footage of the fire by Top Notch Video.

Watch dramatic footage of massive Corrimal High inferno

8 of the most haunted places in the Illawarra and South Coast

Picture: Robert Peet

M1 closed until at least tonight after Wollongong tanker blaze

Flick through the gallery to see the top stories of 2018. Click on the photo to read the online story.

The Illawarra’s 21 most-clicked stories of 2018

Farah Cody, Kais Simmonite and Jye Bridal.

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Construction work proceeds on the Port stack. Flick through the gallery for more photos.

Stunning historical photos of the Port Kembla stack

Lisa Wachsmuth

Six charged, $2.8m worth of drugs seized in mass Wollongong police raids

GET IT RIGHT: Ensuring your seat belt fits properly could prove critical in a crash.

Seat belts: Are you using yours properly?

Professor Kiarash Khosrotehrani.

Cutting off melanoma escape routes

PROSTATE: Research shows some men would prefer to sacrifice survival odds rather than suffer the side-effects of prostate cancer treatment.

Prostate cancer: men trade-off survival for quality of life

Eileen Wood

Editorial, January 23: Star citizen a fighter for freedom

Paws for Effect by Margaret Johnston.

Letters, January 23: Greed the priority

Editorial, January 22: State of change for neglect law

Adelaide could exceed its highest recorded temperature of 46.1C on Thursday.

SA 'will see records broken' on Thursday

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Prakash Paudyal has been jailed after two attacks on an 82-year-old dementia patient.

Aged care attacker jailed for four months

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A panel of scientists will examine how the recent mass fish deaths in NSW occurred.

Scientists to examine cause of fish kills

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Gitta Scheenhouwer was fatally hit while cycling in a Chapel Street bike lane at South Yarra.

Driver admits Dutch cyclist's fatal hit

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Former ATO deputy commissioner Michael Cranston denies acting dishonestly.

Ex-deputy ATO commissioner on trial in NSW

Jodie Stephens
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Former RSL NSW president Don Rowe (R) has been charged with fraud after a two-year investigation.

RSL NSW boss glad Rowe charged with fraud

Julian Drape and Sarah McPhee
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Lives in central Tasmania are at risk as firefighters battle more than 50 blazes across the state.

Tas braces for amplified bushfire threat

Hakeem AlAraibi has been held in Thailand since November when he was arrested.

Australia keeps up refugee release efforts

Marnie Banger

Back in time: The historic Mary Valley Rattler.

Relive history this Australia Day weekend

John Rozentals

Adventure Bay Retreat: Something special on Bruny Island. Photo: Brad Harris

Your weekly travel inspiration

John Rozentals

Wilpena Pound: a natural amphitheatre.

Find yourself in the Flinders Ranges

John Rozental

Healthy snacks: Bananas, almonds and yoghurt are among the many superfoods you can snack on instead of sugary, fatty treats.

Snacking foods that are good for you

Lukas Chodat

BUILT TOUGH: The BeefEater Signature ProLine six-burner built-in barbecue is designed to withstand the tough Australian climate, with all stainless-steel components commercial grade.

Hosting the ultimate Australia Day barbecue

NO SWEAT: If you exercise, especially in the summer heat, you need to drink before, during and after exercise.

Hacks for staying hydrated over summer

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