by Ava Geralexis | Nov 2, 2025 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Environment, News
Wollongong residents and businesses are reflecting on a week of global attention and local disruption following the 2025 World Triathlon Championship Finals. The event, which which brought nearly 5,000 athletes and 15,000+ spectators to the city from 15 to 19 October,...
by Maddison Woods | Oct 28, 2025 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Environment, Feature
By Maddison Woods and Evie Allen Wind lashes the sandstone slopes of Hill 60. With it comes the taste of salt and iron from the sea and steelworks below. The Illawarra seems to stretch beyond its limits from the high point. The steelworks glimmer, the surf...
by Millie Black | Oct 27, 2025 | Environment, Feature
Two journalists, Wollongong central station, an unresolved murder, and a cacophony of street secrets where only the well-worn carpets of Piccadilly Centre know the answer. On 29 January 1966, Wilhemena Kruger was brutally left disfigured and bound in the Piccadilly...
by Elizabeth James | Oct 15, 2025 | Environment, Government, Govt & Politics, News
The Sutherland Shire Council will hold a free electronic waste collection event this weekend, at Bellingara Netball Centre parking lot, with the goal of keeping tonnes of electrical waste out of landfills. The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) reports that...
by Piper Hudgin | Sep 17, 2025 | Audio, Environment, News, Sustainability
In a twist on traditional clean-ups, the Illawarra is hosting plastic clean-ups in the dark with the help of a special blue light technology to expose microplastics hidden in plain sight.A group of around 15 locals gathered at Stuart Park, Wollongong, for an...
by Ava Geralexis | Sep 17, 2025 | Arts/Lifestyle/Culture, Audio, Environment, Health, Lifestyle, Sustainability
Austinmer’s Moore Street General Café is redefining local sustainability by implementing solar power and cutting waste with compostable packaging to build a greener community. Located just a minute from Austinmer station, Moore Street General Café is demonstrating...
