Back rower Dean Young claims St George Illawarra cannot afford to simply replicate the game-plan which won it last year's minor premiership, if it hopes to match it with the likes of runner-up Parramatta tonight.
Wollongong coach Gordie McLeod admits his team will falter if it relies too heavily on scoring machine Cameron Tragardh in the deciding game of the NBL grand final series against the Wildcats in Perth on Friday night.
New South Wales police have extradited a man from the Northern Territory and charged him over armed robberies carried out 14 years ago, including one in the northern suburbs of Wollongong on the state's south coast.
Perth Wildcats coach Rob Beveridge says his side is still well placed to win a record fifth NBL championship despite losing game two of the grand final series to Wollongong.
A 22-year-old man has been charged with cultivating and possessing drugs, after police searched a home in Albion Park Rail for illicit drugs yesterday.
Wollongong coach Gordie McLeod says his team's awesome home record will count for little if his big-time players again fail to fire as Perth eyes off a fifth NBL Championship.
Four purpose-built artificial reef units will be sunk about 2.4km offshore from Perkins Beach, south of Port Kembla, under a proposal being considered by the Department of Planning.
As a primary school teacher, Hedley Privett's life is unpredictable enough, but it is his job as a retained firefighter that can really stir things up.
Matt Cooper's troublesome hamstring will deny him a start tonight, but it is captain Ben Hornby literally causing last-minute headaches as the Dragons prepare for the NRL season opener with Parramatta.
DNA samples taken from a Coke can found at an isolated construction site matched a Tarrawanna man accused of stealing more than $28,000 of tools and electrical goods, a Wollongong District Court jury was told yesterday.
Dragons fullback Darius Boyd has spent hours studying video footage of "the greatest in the game" Jarryd Hayne, as part of his mission to join the NRL's elite this season.
Figtree's Alan Russell has recently retired as Illawarra Table Tennis Association president after more than 30 years in the job, having spent most of his 62 years playing table tennis and is a driving force behind the sport's success in the Illawarra.
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Gabby, my favourite character on Desperate Housewives, thinks she's a bad mother because she doesn't hover over her children and save them from the occasional fall.
The finalisation of the closing down of Bonds Unanderra (W&NL 18/2) is a graphic but tragic testimony to the absurd economic agenda that our nation has been following for the better part of 30 years.
The Illawarra Women's Interfaith Network will be launched in Wollongong today with the aim of bridging religious divides for the benefit of the community.
