Melinda James

Police examine telecommunications data and continue to deploy a thermal-imaging helicopter as the search for missing bushwalker Lily Hooper, 18, enters its sixth day.

A multi-million-dollar project run out of the University of Wollongong is working on fitting shark-deterrent technology into surfboard fins following recent shark attacks.

Trucking industry peak group NatRoad calls on the federal government to urgently implement the $1 billion Economic Resilience Program it promised two weeks ago.

Cheryl Grimmer's family is offered the chance to have the case into the three-year-old's disappearance and death formally reviewed, 56 years after she vanished.

An 86-year-old farmer claims this year's Dairy Science Award for inventing spreadable butter, by mixing oils with cultured cream at a time when it was illegal.

David Finlay has captured images of bioluminescence, fireflies, ghost mushrooms, meteors and the aurora australis, but seeing one of the world's most active volcanoes spraying lava 450 metres in the air "takes the cake".

Surf Life Saving NSW is testing artificial intelligence cameras at Kiama Blowhole to detect when fishers are swept into the water and alert rescuers within seconds.

Decades after hosting film crews making a children's movie about a loveable piglet, the town of Robertson in New South Wales is transformed into a country fair in tribute.

Brooke McIntosh will arrive in Sydney on Wednesday as she strives to become the fastest woman to run around Australia by clocking up 14,000 kilometres in 180 days.

This week, ABC Illawarra’s Melinda James took to the stage at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre in Wollongong for a conversation with author Pip Williams and playwright Verity Laughton. Next week, listen to ABC Illawarra's Breakfast, Mornings and Drive for your chance to win tickets.