Brendan Crabb

The managers of Killalea State Park have thanked the community for “sharing their passion” for the popular reserve.

Kiama’s Folk By The Sea music festival is set to return following a COVID-enforced year off, and will feature a line-up of local, state and national acts.

After a year’s enforced break due to COVID-19 restrictions, the performers from Illawarra-based promotion Rock ‘n’ Roll Wrestling got back in the ring in March.

An Illawarra small business owner says the eventual end of the current lockdown would still not guarantee the immediate end to her “financial struggle”.

Open houses and inspections during the lockdown are taking on different forms throughout the property markets of the Illawarra and South Coast.

Residential property prices in the coastal hamlet of Austinmer have increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, seemingly accelerated by a shift from big cities.

Older women have been recognised as being among the fastest-growing groups of homeless people in Australia in recent years.

In a post-COVID world, the Wollongong CBD is well-placed to be an in-demand location for businesses to establish satellite offices, a new report suggests.

Blocks in Shell Cove are also being re-sold at a profit.

Wollongong real estate agent Bob Onofri, who famously operated his full-time business without a computer has died, aged 91. Earlier this year, Mr Onofri retired after 60-plus years in the industry. Mr Onofri was a fixture of Illawarra real estate, having operated from the same location in Crown Street for more than 50 years. Read more: Wollongong real estate agent Bob Onofri set to retire after decades in the industry His daughter Marina Thimios told the Mercury that her “flamboyant, one-of-a-k…