What everyone was reading from December 31 to January 6.
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Wollongong revellers farewelled 2012 in spectacular fashion, with thousands lining the harbour foreshore to ring in the new year. - Shannon Tonkin
Welcome to Wollongong's tent city - a melting pot community that sprang up on the foreshore on Monday night as hordes of visitors from western Sydney sought somewhere beachside to ring in the new year. - Angela Thompson
On Tuesday mornings Kathryn Bullard wakes with one thing on her mind: the supermarket catalogues. If you're going to live on the dole, Ms Bullard says, you've got to know the specials. - Angela Thompson
Keera Vale has been sold to buyers committed to restoring the crumbling building to its former glory. Wollongong Public School principal Harold Cosier and partner Jenny Dixon plan to spend the next five years on what many would see as a daunting project. - Michele Tydd
An arsonist is thought responsible for a fire that gutted the old Port Kembla primary school on Thursday night, putting in limbo plans to convert the site into a community arts precinct. - Angela Thompson
Police say there is no evidence to suggest the owners of IGA stores in Jamberoo and Kiama Downs are being targeted, despite three attacks on their shops in less than two weeks. - Kate McIlwain
A flourishing colony of flying foxes at Figtree is driving some businesses and residents batty. It is estimated that tens of thousands of grey-headed flying foxes have turned a patch of bushland just north of the freeway exit into their summer home. - Michele Tydd
North Wollongong's temporary "tent city" will be subject to a new control strategy by the time the next New Year's Eve countdown occurs, according to Wollongong City Council. - Angela Thompson
Ambulance officials are keen to get in touch with a shy hero who saved the life of a man in the waters off Kiama. A 65-year-old man was snorkelling in the bay when it is understood that he ingested some water and lost consciousness. - Glen Humphries
The sky is an empty white in the first daylight hours of 2013 – a downer for the hundreds who have camped overnight on the Illawarra coast so they can wake up and find themselves already at the beach. - Angela Thompson