Rescuers were called to waters at Bulli,north of Wollongong,following reports the vessel had overturned shortly after 10am on Sunday.
A community not-for-profit group set out to create jobs for local refugees,and ended up with one of the world’s largest urban permaculture farms.
From a position of relative comfort just a few short weeks ago,now it seems everyone in Wollongong knows someone who’s had COVID-19.
The Illawarra has the workforce,the industrial and academic know-how and the transport and energy links to be a major player in greener manufacturing.
Wollongong's five-year-old Babyface has the attitude of a lo-fi wine bar with a serious kitchen at its heart.
A disparate coalition of surfers,Shellharbour residents and the wider NSW beachgoer community is fighting to stop a multimillion-dollar tourism development at Killalea State Park,popularly known as The Farm.
The Wollongong resident visited a number of venues,including a south-eastern Sydney cafe,before returning a positive test result.
An inmate has died after a shooting incident while the man was in the custody of Corrective Services NSW in Wollongong on Wednesday.
The future of the two main coal mines digging under Sydney's water catchment hangs in the balance with one closing for two months because of weak demand and the other seeking approval to expand.
A former Wollongong councillor who was jailed for lying to the Independent Commission Against Corruption has been re-elected to the board of Football South Coast,as activists raise questions over the transparency of the regional soccer organisation's finances.
Cancer-causing arsenic and poisonous heavy metals have been found in a drain less than a kilometre from a popular NSW beach.