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Concerning: Tammie Peters leaves Wollongong courthouse on Friday after escaping a full-time jail sentence for spitting.

SUBSCRIBERUnanderra woman spat on Asian couple at height of COVID pandemic in 'racially-motivated' attack

Shannon Tonkin

Glenda Shulman was on the Ruby Princess cruise with six Wollongong friends - they all contracted COVID-19 but had very different experiences of it. Picture: Supplied

Four months after 'recovering' from COVID, Glenda's still battling severe fatigue

Lisa Wachsmuth

Jack de Belin enters Wollongong courthouse

SUBSCRIBERDate set for decision in Jack de Belin's pre-trial legal argument

Shannon Tonkin

Plea to work together: Figtree Hotel managers Ben Griffin, Chantelle Botting, Elizabeth Lee and Andrew McWhirter are serious about complying with the public health order after the venue was fined. Picture: Anna Warr

'We made a mistake': Figtree Hotel managers vow to enforce COVID plan after $5K fine

Ashleigh Tullis

Missing man's body found in bushland at Berkeley

Missing man's body found in bushland at Berkeley

Man dies from COVID-19 in NSW as state records 17 new cases

Man dies from COVID-19 in NSW as state records 17 new cases

Kate McIlwain

The police and Wollongong City Council worked on an operation to remove a stray deer from the Wollongong foreshore near the Continental Pool on Cliff Road last winter. Picture: Robert Peet

$400k needed 'just to keep a cap on' Wollongong's pest deer: mayor

Kate McIlwain

Residents have their say: 600 ways cycling in Wollongong could be better

Residents have their say: 600 ways cycling in Wollongong could be better

Kate McIlwain

North Wollongong road closed after car veers off road into creek

COMMENTDon't be a numpty in facing the COVID-19 challenge

COMMENTA healthy dose of humility and fear: 'We are not the centre of the earth'

EXCLUSIVE'Cold air' argument preceded Berkeley clown mask attack: court

Concerning: Tammie Peters leaves Wollongong courthouse on Friday after escaping a full-time jail sentence for spitting.

SUBSCRIBERUnanderra woman spat on Asian couple at height of COVID pandemic in 'racially-motivated' attack

LEADING RESEARCHER: Professor Justin Yerbury received an Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to MND research and advocacy. Picture: Paul Jones.

COMMENTA healthy dose of humility and fear: 'We are not the centre of the earth'

2020 Illawarra Business Woman of the Year Karen Meiring De Gonzalez with her IWIB Award and Villa D'Oro on Friday.

All the photos from the 2020 Illawarra Woman in Business Awards

Take a first look inside Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre

Take a first look inside Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre

Tempers flared both on and off the field at Flinders on Sunday. No player has been implicated in the off-field brawl. Photo: Courtney Ward

SUBSCRIBERGroup Seven charge spectators from Stingrays and Albion Park brawl

Tell us your VP Day stories for the 75th anniversary

Tell us your VP Day stories for the 75th anniversary

Avondale open Illawarra Rugby season with come-from-behind victory

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SUBSCRIBERButchers hold off fast-finishing Cougars in Illawarra League slugfest

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Missing man's body found in bushland at Berkeley

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Gwenda Markwell aiming high for promising filly

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Sect leader arrested in Korea over virus

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Man dies from COVID-19 in NSW as state records 17 new cases

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Hard to handle: Shamrocks defencders attempt to drag down Avondale's Anthony Amone during Saturday's clash. Picture: Robert Peet.

Avondale open Illawarra Rugby season with come-from-behind victory

Cameron Mee

NAIL-BITER: Corrimal Cougars coach Sean Maloney was left rung missed opportunities on Saturday. Picture: Anna Warr

SUBSCRIBERButchers hold off fast-finishing Cougars in Illawarra League slugfest

Mitch Jennings

Tight victory: Jeff Penza and By Design (left) held off a fast-finishing Hello China (right) to claim the first at Kembla Grange on Saturday. Picture: Robert Peet.

Gwenda Markwell aiming high for promising filly

Cameron Mee

Hard to handle: Shamrocks defencders attempt to drag down Avondale's Anthony Amone during Saturday's clash. Picture: Robert Peet.

Avondale open Illawarra Rugby season with come-from-behind victory

FOR THE LOVE: Tim Grant in his first outing for Thirroul in the Butchers Presidents Cup opener. Picture: Sylvia Liber

SUBSCRIBERIllawarra League: Former Origin prop relishing the Butchers life

Mitch Jennings

ENIGMA: Corey Norman remains a mystery wrapped in a play-making riddle. Picture: NRL Imagery/Grant Trouville

OPINIONTinker or rebuild? The next two weeks will provide Dragons answer

Tim Barrow

Cruise the highways and byways instead of the high seas. Pictures: Supplied

Your guide to switching from cruising to caravan touring

Hannah Warren

LINE UP: Police and soldiers at the Hume Highway checkpoint in Albury. Picture: Border Mail

What you need to know before you book

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While away a few days at Rottnest Island. Picture: Shutterstock

Deals of the Week: Short breaks, seven-day stays and croc country

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CELEBRATION OF MUSIC: Black Joak Morris performing at a previous edition of the festival at Bulli Showground. Picture: Adam McLean

Annual Illawarra Folk Festival, Kiama event cancelled due to pandemic

Brendan Crabb

COVID cancellation: A scene from the inaugural South Coast Food and Wine Festival at Berry in 2019. The second event has been postponed 12 months to October 2021 in Huskisson. Picture: Greg Ellis.

Major festivals and events cancelled due to second phase of COVID-19

Greg Ellis

Billy Fleming and Zach Stephenson of Hockey Dad. Picture: Supplied

Hockey Dad drive in concert officially postponed for Wollongong

Desiree Savage

Vickie Roach has shared her experience of domestic violence as part of the ongoing Road to Recovery campaign. Picture: Sylvia Liber

OPINIONWe need to prepare for DV impact of COVID-19

Vickie Roach has shared her experience of domestic violence as part of the ongoing Road to Recovery campaign. Picture: Sylvia Liber

OPINIONWe need to prepare for DV impact of COVID-19

Ten years since fleeing an abusive marriage, Jacquie Charlesworth wants to see a centre set up for women who feel they have no way out. Picture: Sylvia Liber

'Are you in a safe place': Jacquie managed to grab her mobile before taking refuge in the bathroom

Ten years since fleeing an abusive marriage, Jacquie Charlesworth wants to see a centre set up for women who feel they have no way out. Picture: Sylvia Liber

'Are you in a safe place': Jacquie managed to grab her mobile before taking refuge in the bathroom

Moving forward: Melissa Edwards experienced many forms of domestic abuse at the hands of her ex-husband. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Gaps in support for DV 'glaringly clear' to Melissa, after a three year battle

Moving forward: Melissa Edwards experienced many forms of domestic abuse at the hands of her ex-husband. Picture: Sylvia Liber

Gaps in support for DV 'glaringly clear' to Melissa, after a three year battle

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Emma Brown

Photo Cody Tsaousis from the Muswellbrook Chronicle.

One Nation: fighting to get NSW working again

Power of education: Solicitor Paul Ell was just one of the thousands of young people assisted by the Learning for Life program that is supported by VIEW Clubs of Australia. Photo: Supplied.

The club that offers children a view to a better future

Dayle Latham

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

From lifesaving to sanity saving, good customer service works

Clever Money: Conditions force more families to raid super

Clever Money: Conditions force more families to raid super

Bernadette Chua

Year 7: Their ideas and presentations to make 'Albion Park more liveable' were outstanding and they received a certificate from the local council for their efforts.

Educ Wk: The school has new processes

Pictures: Supplied

SUBSCRIBERSee inside the South Coast tree-change property that offers a 'complete lifestyle shift'

Brendan Crabb

Morris Bryant and partner Bek Fraser (pictured with their dog Ted Danson) at their Wombarra home. Picture: Robert Peet

How the pandemic helped make this Sydney couple's Wollongong dream a reality

Brendan Crabb

HOT PROPERTY: The house is located at 9 Weaver Terrace, Bulli, and has a price guide of $2,590,000 to $2,660,000. Pictures: Supplied

'The coastal life doesn't get any better': Bulli home has $2.6m asking price

Brendan Crabb

Secure entry: Caroline Dayne gets her temperature taken by a security guard before entry into the grand ballroom at Tuesday's networking at a distance dinner.

Networking with a difference may be the last for a while

Greg Ellis

2020 Illawarra Business Woman of the Year Karen Meiring De Gonzalez with her IWIB Award and Villa D'Oro on Friday.

All the photos from the 2020 Illawarra Woman in Business Awards

Greg Ellis

Tynan scholarship recipients: Jessica Semken, Jordan Nicholls, Nutchaya Noradechanun and Callum O'Flaherty. Pictures: UOW.

Tynan family supports medical researchers at University of Wollongong

Greg Ellis

Secure entry: Caroline Dayne gets her temperature taken by a security guard before entry into the grand ballroom at Tuesday's networking at a distance dinner.

Networking with a difference may be the last for a while

COVID cancellation: A scene from the inaugural South Coast Food and Wine Festival at Berry in 2019. The second event has been postponed 12 months to October 2021 in Huskisson. Picture: Greg Ellis.

Major festivals and events cancelled due to second phase of COVID-19

Greg Ellis

Positive pup: St Luke's Preschool's Blake Stewart, Matthew Signarella and Vikki Shaw with new team member Harvey. Picture: Adam McLean.

Harvey the Labradoodle to help staff and students with mental health

Greg Ellis

DIGESTIt's hard to believe we're back here

Secure entry: Caroline Dayne gets her temperature taken by a security guard before entry into the grand ballroom at Tuesday's networking at a distance dinner.

Networking with a difference may be the last for a while

Twp words. That's it. All you have to remember, Australia.

DIGESTTwo words: you've heard them before

Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews at Friday's daily briefing. Picture: Getty Images

'A difficult week': Victoria could be in for further restrictions

Glenda Shulman was on the Ruby Princess cruise with six Wollongong friends - they all contracted COVID-19 but had very different experiences of it. Picture: Supplied

Four months after 'recovering' from COVID, Glenda's still battling severe fatigue

Lisa Wachsmuth

NSW has recorded 21 new cases of COVID-19. File picture: Sylvia Liber

State diagnoses 21 new COVID cases while Victoria records 627

Ashleigh Tullis

More than 600 new COVID-19 cases detected in Victoria, multiple deaths

More than 600 new COVID-19 cases detected in Victoria, multiple deaths

Sophie Boyd

Spare a thought for the contact tracers ...

DIGESTSpare a thought for the contact tracers ...

Janine Graham

Garrawarra Cemetery. Pictures: Christopher Chan

The forgotten souls of Waterfall's Garrawarra Cemetery

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

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

The Imperial Hotel at Clifton from a new angle — at Mt Mitchell, Stanwell Tops. Photo: Bushwalk the Gong

Is this Wollongongs most spectacular bushwalk?

Blue pool. Photo: Bushwalk the Gong

This Southern Highlands bushwalk has a blue pool, cascades and multiple lookouts

A video tour of the majestic Wollongong garden tucked under Mount Keira

A video tour of the majestic Wollongong garden tucked under Mount Keira

Bushwalk the Gong

Take a first look inside Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre

Take a first look inside Bulli Hospital and Aged Care Centre

Lisa Wachsmuth

The view from Burragorang lookout and picnic area. Photo: Chris Piazzo, Piazza Wood Works

7 wilderness walks near Wollongong to add to your bucket list

Ashleigh Tullis

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

Watch dramatic footage of massive Corrimal High inferno

Qantas flight attendant Sara Armbrecht at the Qantas Founders Museum holding two dolls dressed in her minature Qantas uniforms: a Pucci unform worn 1974 to 1985 (left) and the current uniform designed by Martin Grant.

Flights of fashion: Doll collection celebrates century of Qantas uniforms

Geraldine Cardozo

Reforms for NSW retirement villages.

Retirement village reforms welcomed

Eileen Wood

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

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COMMENTDon't be a numpty in facing the COVID-19 challenge

Mark Sleigh

LEADING RESEARCHER: Professor Justin Yerbury received an Order of Australia (AM) for his contribution to MND research and advocacy. Picture: Paul Jones.

COMMENTA healthy dose of humility and fear: 'We are not the centre of the earth'

Professor Justin Yerbury AM

ALL THAT SPACE: But this Woonona foursome just had to get close up and share the lip balm around.

OPINIONWho thinks they're entitled to actions without consequences?

Ben Langford

A man has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the crash that killed four Victorian police.

Manslaughter charges for Vic police deaths

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Victorian anaesthetists want testing of medical safety wear made mandatory as hospitalisations rise.

Vic doctors want mandatory PPE testing

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Victoria's chief health officer has said a New Zealand-style lockdown is being explored.

Latest snapshot of the coronavirus impact

One hundred extra NT health workers will help with the screening of interstate arrivals.

Cop quits after NT virus border breach

DIGESTIt's hard to believe we're back here

Alex Crowe

The national death toll from COVID-19 has surpassed 200 with one death in NSW and three in Victoria.

Stricter lockdown nears for virus-hit Vic

More than 1.6 million coronavirus tests have been done in Victoria since the start of the pandemic.

Victoria's coronavirus cases by numbers

Western Australia has changed its coronavirus reporting to only include active cases of the illness.

WA records 2 past cases, changes reporting

Andi Yu

Sir Walter Merriman, knighted in 1954 for services to the wool industry. Photo: Wal Merriman

Challenging the Merino

Stephen Burns

Top price Sugarloaf Payweight P74 with auctioneer Paul Dooley, vendor Jim Tickle, purchaser Margo Duncan, Boambee Angus, East Seaham, agent Paddy Dillion, Dillion and sons, agent Greg Lidbury, Bowe and Lidbury, Aaron Lieb, Boambee Angus and Jamie Grosser Boambee Angus farm manager.

Sugarloaf Angus makes Payweight

Kylie Raines

Dr Jennifer Atchison from the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. Photo: University of Wollongong

Future Fellowship awarded for study of invasive plant management

Decorate the walls with art built by you

Decorate the walls with art built by you

SENSE OF PLACE: Casuarina House is positioned on one edge of the block, to free up space for a large garden that spans the full length of the site and encourages engagement with the outdoors.

Coastal home commended with award

PROGRESS: Horses helped humankind evolve culture, trade and communities.

Horsepower the driving force that forged human civilisation

Lyndell Whyte