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These players have a training story to cherish for a lifetime after Caitlin Foord dropped in on her old club to dazzle them and the TV cameras with her skills.

Greens MP Sue Higginson says NSW Attorney-General Michael Daley should step in and grant the request to the Grimmer family, which she says has been failed by the system.

Five men stand accused of orchestrating a clandestine flight from Papua New Guinea to Australia with more than 52 kilograms of methamphetamine on board. 

Illawarra residents are on high alert after another positive case linked to the Sydney outbreak and several new venues of concern were identified today.

Virgin flights, Sydney train routes, Woolworths Town Hall and the Coogee Diggers RSL are among new COVID-19 exposure sites released by NSW Health.

NSW's growing COVID-19 outbreak has prompted health authorities to release more exposure sites — see the complete list here.

As contact tracers scramble to track venues visited by COVID-19 cases, the list of venues which at first was focused on the eastern suburbs, has now expanded to include Drummoyne, Castle Hill, Campbelltown and Merrylands in Western Sydney.

The list of exposure sites, at first focused on Westfield Bondi Junction after the eastern suburbs breakout, now includes venues across Greater Sydney, and also a cafe in Fairy Meadow in the Illawarra.

A 33-year-old woman rescued from her burning Fairy Meadows home earlier this week has died from her injuries.

A woman with critical injuries has been rescued from a house fire near Wollongong, after staying on the phone with firefighters throughout the frightening ordeal. 

An "extensive investigation" is launched to probe whether a person who tested positive for COVID-19 two days after leaving hotel quarantine was infected at Sydney's Sofitel Wentworth.

A truck driver who ploughed into a McDonald's carpark after speeding out of control down Mount Ousley near Wollongong is found guilty.

A 65-year-old NSW man has been found guilty of causing a fiery 2019 crash in which two people were killed and nine others injured.

Junior basketball coach Jaydon Beveridge, the son of former NBL coach Rob Beveridge, will face court after being charged with grooming a number of underage girls for sex online over a three-year period.

The brother of toddler Cheryl Grimmer, who disappeared 50 years ago, is sentenced to three years in prison for indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

Food suppliers in Fairy Meadow, a suburb of Wollongong, change their business models to pool resources and ensure shoppers get one grocery delivery, rather than four or five.

Exactly 50 years to the day since three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer went missing while at a Wollongong beach with her mother and brother, police announce a $1 million reward for information on her suspected murder.

Stephen Grimmer, the brother of murdered toddler Cheryl Grimmer who disappeared in 1970, pleads guilty to indecently assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

For nearly a decade Wollongong City Council has been raising concerns about feral deer, but this is believed to be the first time lifeguards have had to rescue the animals from the ocean.

Frightened deer were lashed by strong waves before falling into the water at a beach in Wollongong beach.

Authorities are marvelling no-one was killed when the brakes on a truck failed and it crashed through a McDonald's carpark north of Wollongong, with the driver desperately trying to warn people to get out of the way.

Blythe dolls create opportunities for women to build collections, stage and shoot photographs, and participate in an online community.

Big eyes, big bucks, big love: Blythe dolls have an international community of women (mostly) who just adore their haunting slightly fragile demeanour.

Lawyers for a 64-year-old man accused of the abduction and murder of a three-year-old on the NSW south coast in 1970 question the validity of his alleged confession to police.

NSW police search for a crucial witness in the United Kingdom over the alleged abduction and murder of a toddler at a Wollongong beach nearly half a century ago.