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Wollongong's Michael Ralph was assaulted by a group of men on Wednesday night in Crown Street Mall after he went to the aid of another man. Picture: Michael Ralph

'He was scared': Good Samaritan left bloodied after unprovoked Wollongong attack

Ashleigh Tullis
1hr ago

INNOVATION: Metal recycling is thriving but the domestic plastic and paper recycling industry is in crisis. Could Wollongong be the answer?

New Wollongong recycling plant could help ease crisis gripping industry

Ben Langford
1hr ago

Significant danger: The boy's biological mother (red shirt) leaves Wollongong courthouse on Wednesday with her lawyer, Laura Fennell, after pleading guilty to a serious neglect charge.

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Illawarra mum's confession after 4yr-old son found with cocktail of sedatives in his system

Shannon Tonkin

Jamberoo Car Show and family fun day on this weekend

Jamberoo Car Show and family fun day on this weekend

Brendan Crabb
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Illawarra hospitals to suffer due to 'savage cuts' to health: Keira MP

Illawarra hospitals to suffer due to 'savage cuts' to health: Keira MP

Lisa Wachsmuth

Mobile phone camera detectors could be watching roads in the Illawarra from December this year. Picture: Transport for NSW

No signs to pinpoint new mobile phone camera locations

Glen Humphries
1hr ago

Parking: The state government has launched an app linked to parking meters - something Wollongong City Council did years ago. Picture: Glen Humphries

NSW Govt launches parking meter app years after Wollongong council did it

Glen Humphries
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Bulli Pass is set to close for clean-up work next week

Bulli Pass is set to close for clean-up work next week

Glen Humphries

Kurnell desalination plant producing 250 million litres daily as dam levels dive

Jump on board the Albion Park ghost train this Halloween eve

Illawarra homeowners report concerns about door-to-door tradesmen to police

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'I don't think I'll make it': Unanderra man admits stabbing brother outside methadone clinic

Wollongong's Michael Ralph was assaulted by a group of men on Wednesday night in Crown Street Mall after he went to the aid of another man. Picture: Michael Ralph

'He was scared': Good Samaritan left bloodied after unprovoked Wollongong attack

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Effective immediately: Customers were notified of Window World's closure with a handwritten sign posted on the Swan Street business door. Picture: Adam McLean.

Customers owed money after long-running Wollongong businesses go bust

Charges: Lawyer Ash Argawal (main) and his surgeon wife Smita (inset) are due in court again on November 5.

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Wollongong lawyer and surgeon wife face charges over 'stolen cash': court

A homemade pipe bomb was found at a recreation park on Darkes Road, Kembla Grange. Picture: Google Maps

Homemade bomb found near popular Kembla Grange park

Jailed: The Illawarra mother sobbed as she was led downstairs to the cells below the courthouse to begin her sentence.

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'Outrageously selfish': Mum leaves kids home alone to visit boyfriend, house catches fire

CELEBRATE: Rebs Baigent, Jane Townsend, Anna Townsend, Steven Cross, Shaun Townsend, Madelyne Baigent-Haynes and Kiara Cross. Picture: Adam McLean

Spook-tacular: inaugural Dapto festival to bring spirit of Halloween to the region

Jamberoo Car Show and family fun day on this weekend

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No signs to pinpoint new mobile phone camera locations

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New Wollongong recycling plant could help ease crisis gripping industry

1hr ago

'He was scared': Good Samaritan left bloodied after unprovoked Wollongong attack

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NSW Govt launches parking meter app years after Wollongong council did it

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Tuna on the bite off our coast

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Ashton Mekisic with a tea leaf trevally.

Tuna on the bite off our coast

SLEDGE: Kiwi Ferns centre Jules Newman. Picture: NRL Photos

Kiwi Ferns Sledge adds Test spice

Mitch Jennings

MILESTONE: Benji Marshall will skipper New Zealand for a record 19th time in Wollongong on Friday. Picture: NRL Photos

Marshall grateful ahead of Wollongong Test return

Mitch Jennings

Ashton Mekisic with a tea leaf trevally.

Tuna on the bite off our coast

Country champions: The Wollongong Men's A touch side. Picture: Tim Robinson.

Wollongong Devils snap drought to claim Country Championships

Emerging talents: Wests swimmers Chelsea Jones (left) and Sydney Brown (right). Picture: Anne Brown.

Illawarra youngster eclipses Emma McKeon on way to new NSW record

Cameron Mee

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NEW ROLE: Hosted by Beau Ryan (pictured), contestants will tackle trains, planes and camels as they ping-pong across the world in pursuit of the $250,000 cash prize. Picture: Supplied

Beau Ryan to lead wild pursuit for $250K prize on 'The Amazing Race Australia'

Brendan Crabb

WIN Stadium will host end-of-season rugby league Tests between Australia at New Zealand.

19 things to do in the Illawarra this week

Brendan Crabb

FINALIST: Illawarra artist Leanne Harrison-Davies is among the 55 national finalists competing for this year's Eutick Memorial Still Life Award.

Illawarra artists among finalists for national still life prize

Brendan Crabb

Building Australia's new wave of professional managers and leaders

Building Australia's new wave of professional managers and leaders

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Shopping with greater convenience

Emma Brown

It's the season to experience Canberra

It's the season to experience Canberra

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Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French to American people in 1886 and has been the symbol of the freedom of the USA to immigrants for over 100 years.

One cruise, four bucket-list destinations - tick

Emma Brown

Raising the standard of managers and leaders to create a better society

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FINANCE: Dr Paul Mazzola is a lecturer in banking and finance at UOW. Picture: Paul Jones, University of Wollongong

Will there be another interest rate cut in the near future? An Illawarra expert weighs in

Brendan Crabb

Picture: Anna Warr

'Increased appetite' for Illawarra's industrial property market

Brendan Crabb

Latest figures: The Domain Rent Report for the September 2019 quarter held positive news for renters according to economist Trent Wiltshire.

What Illawarra tenants need to know about weekly rental prices

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

Illawarra residents invited to free RUOK? Day event

Illawarra residents invited to free RUOK? Day event

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

National recognition for Mercury suicide prevention campaign

National recognition for Mercury suicide prevention campaign

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Petstock in Fairy Meadow will microchip pets for $10 this Saturday.

$10 microchip blitz to keep pets out of Wollongong animal shelters

Wood festival: A scene from the 2018 Festival of Wood at Bulli.

Illawarra Festival of Wood expected to attract 6000 to Bulli Showground

Greg Ellis

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Oktoberfestivities: Sunday October 20 will continue the tradition of being family day at the 30th annual Oktoberfest at the German Club Wollongong.

Oktoberfest at the German Club celebrates 30 years

Greg Ellis

Rookie: Nathan has been surprised by how popular the calendars are internationally.

Watch behind the scenes of the Australian Firefighters Calendar photo shoot

Jen Walker

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

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

Adams lookout, Bungonia National Park

10 of the best day trips from Wollongong to try

Shellharbour's Brodie Bridge has been fronted court on drug supply charges. He is the sixth man arrested in relation to the alleged drug syndicate that supplied cocaine and 'ice' in the region.

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Man makes alleged drug deal at work as part of Shellharbour 'syndicate'

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

Watch dramatic footage of massive Corrimal High inferno

A 21-year-old man was arrested in relation to a drug supply investigation in Shellharbour on Monday. Picture: NSW Police

'Tip of the iceberg': Sixth man charged over alleged Shellharbour drug syndicate

Ashleigh Tullis

The Miss Llewella Davies Pioneer Walkway at Camden Town Farm opened recently. Main picture: Simon Bennett. Inset: Llewella Davies

The new historic walk near Wollongong you need to know about

Stills of images taken from the memory card found hidden in the bottle at Brighton beach.

Warning issued after hidden camera in water bottle filmed women, children at beach

Aimee Edwards and Jim Gainsford

Weather turns it on: Thousands flock to Spring Into Corrimal and line the street for the grand street parade. Picture: Anna Warr.

All the photos from Spring into Corrimal 2019

Greg Ellis

Older Australians are embracing technology to find love and friendship. Photo:Shutterstock

Older Aussies swipe right in the search for love

Trial planned of herbal formulation to reduce pain from osteoarthritis of the knee and improve function, physical movement and wellbeing.

Can osteoarthritis be effectively treated with a herbal medicine?

Retirees face worrying financial times. Image: Shutterstock

Retirees fear goalpost move in retirement income review

Eileen Wood

CREEPY: Canberra Times head photographer Karleen Minney and her image of a house in the Canberra suburb of Gungahlin already decorated for Halloween.

Don't get spooked, Halloween's a bit of fun

Julan O'Brien

Illawarra property market bucks global downturn

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Illawarra property market bucks global downturn

Almost sunrise, taken near the rock pool, Wollongong, by Hans Haverkamp.

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Letters, October 16: Who is James Watt?

Mutitjulu residents welcome the ban on climbing Uluru but some worry about losing tourism funds.

Uluru's owners face future without climb

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There was allegedly an "us and them" mentality involving police at Splendour In the Grass.

'Us and them' divide at Splendour festival

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Julian Assange has blocked Australian officials from offering him any consular assistance.

Julian Assange blocks consular assistance

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Owners thought they would be going this fast in their new masterpiece of German engineering ... but then a snail was found lurking.

Sneaky snail stops delivery of hundreds of high-end cars

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Powercor has been charged over electricity asset failures and subsequent fires in Victoria last year

Power company charged over Vic fires

Angus Livingston
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Ambassador Joe Hockey volunteered to help with a White House inquiry without waiting for a request.

Joe Hockey 'forward-leaning' on US inquiry

Daniel McCulloch
1hr ago

Education reforms allowing students to mix and match courses are recommended by a new report.

Reforms allow students to 'mix and match'

Finbar O'Mallon
1hr ago

More than 888,000 people are living below the poverty line in NSW, according to new research.

Almost 900,000 living in poverty in NSW

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A deer captured on camera nibbling a bunch of bananas on Paul Shoker's Coffs Harbour plantation. Photo: Supplied by Paul Shoker

Deer and flying fox are proving a bad bunch

Samantha Townsend
1hr ago

ANFD kicks off

Daniel Pedersen
2hrs ago

Some of the comments on The Land's Facebook site from readers reacting to the ABC horse slaughter report. The horses above were successfully rehomed by RacingNSW.

Racehorse horror story leads to action in just one state

John Ellicott

The view across the Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Spain. Pictures: Michael Turtle

European gems off the tourist trail

Michael Turtle
1hr ago

Lane Cove Holiday Park: seems a world away from Sydney's hustle and bustle

Plan your next holiday with these deals

John Rozentals

Trying to find the best Osteria or Ristorante to sample some of the culinary offerings available can often be a hit and miss affair.

A taste of Tuscany

Scott McRae

Many people would be surprised to learn there is currently no law that requires businesses to not sell unsafe products.

Sign up for recalls to keep your family safe

A major message here is that spouses have a duty to provide for their partners because if they don't, the courts will step in and do it for them.

Wills aren't always fair, and legally that's OK

Noel Whittaker

Every bit helps: Don't pour the water leftover from cooking pasta, eggs or vegetables down the drain - use it to water your pot plants.

Don't pour that pasta water down the sink!