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All remaining national contingents attending the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea will be evacuated due to a typhoon forecast to hit the country amid a sweltering heatwave.

As the Matildas prepare for their round of 16 contest, members of the Illawarra Stingrays football club are still on cloud nine after meeting and training with club champion Caitlin Foord just days before the World Cup started.

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.

More than a year after a scathing report on the state of healthcare in regional, rural and remote NSW, a new inquiry is set to investigate if improvements have been made.

Three construction workers under the age of 25 have been rushed to hospital with serious injuries in the space of a week, with one tragically losing his life. A minister says Safe Work NSW needs to do more to enforce standards.

Renowned motor neurone disease researcher Professor Justin Yerbury, who led research into finding a cure before dying of the disease last Friday, is remembered in front of hundreds of mourners at a funeral service in Wollongong.

There are hopes changes like fencing and signage to a busy arterial road on Sydney's southern fringe will prevent more koalas from becoming roadkill.

The Tahmoor coal mine agrees to pay more than $200,000 for taking an unknown quantity of water in breach of its licence conditions.

A new documentary celebrating Luc Longley's three consecutive NBA championships, and featuring exclusive new footage from The Last Dance, will offer a fascinating insight into the Australian basketball legend.

The University of Wollongong hopes that for decades and centuries to come the professor's name will be associated with the fight to treat neurodegenerative diseases.

They join the likes of Tijuana Cartel, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Cash Savage and the Last Drinks, Lonnie Hollie, Teen Jesus and The Jean Teasers, and BATTS.

The molecular biologist spent more than a decade researching a cure for motor neurone disease (MND) following the deaths of four members of his family.

The nation's largest supplier of industrial gas, Coregas, opens a first-of-its-kind commercial hydrogen refuelling station for heavy vehicles in the Illawarra.

A children's magistrate in Port Kembla has described this innovative mentoring program as "remarkable" and "transformative" for young people who were once on a bleak path. But its future is under threat.

Illawarra paragliders Ken Hutt and Marcus Loane captured some incredible footage on their recent trip to Nepal to paraglide through the Everest region, capturing footage for a film raising awareness of ending polio.

Two New South Wales men have become the first people to legally paraglide from a 5,200-metre peak in the Everest region of Nepal, capturing spectacular footage for a charity film. 

NSW Planning Minister Paul Scully defends his decision to approve a 13,000-home development in the Wollondilly Shire with just 187 affordable dwellings, saying that adding more would be a cost to the developer.

Disability advocate Jane Turnbull says traditional resumes unfairly disadvantage people who struggle with writing, but she has come up with a fairer option for people with disabilities.

With communities still recovering from the Black Summer bushfires, Prime Minister Albanese says his government is taking a "practical" approach to climate change ahead of the upcoming bushfire season.

Iranian migrant Kambiz Seyedghalouri and his wife, Sara Minagar, leave behind the political turmoil of their home country to open a chocolate and gelato franchise in Wollongong. In 2021, Iran supplied the second-largest number of business migrants to Australia.

NSW fire crews have already responded to more than 800 grass, scrub and bushfires this month. And communities like Susan Alexander's are turning their attention to preparing their properties for the coming summer.

A new community-run social housing development provides a safe place for people who have spent years trying to secure stable housing.

Farmers and the nation's competition watchdog are worried about a deal that could see Coles control a large part of the milk supply chain.

Several women reveal their birth traumas at an event in Wollongong, saying the experiences left them suffering "flashbacks and nightmares" and unwilling to have more children.

The NSW government is being urged to "do better" by increasing the number of affordable homes in one of the state's biggest development projects on the outskirts of south-western Sydney.