The Mercury's live blog brings you updates from breaking news incidents, traffic and travel across the Illawarra and beyond.

They're called the "engine room of the economy", employing more than five million Australians, and they may have a big sway ...

Housing is front and centre in this election campaign, and a flood of opinions is swirling around how to solve the crisis.

Hospitals in the Gaza Strip have received the remains of 51 Palestinians in 24 hours who were killed in Israeli strikes, the ...

The Wollongong Wolves regained firepower for round 12 of NSW NPL in the form of Raphael Le'ai, who returned from suspension ...

Police have concerns for the welfare of a man from North Nowra who was last seen in Towradgi.

It was described as the worst Easter weekend on record after seven drownings in NSW, but the toll might have been higher if ...

Lachlan Galvin marked his return to the NRL by starring in a nailbiting 20-18 golden-point extra-time win over Cronulla that ...

Nine people have been killed and multiple others injured after a driver drove into a crowd at a Filipino street festival in ...

With less than a week to go until election day, leaders have tried to win over the increasingly small pool of undecided ...

More than 50 people spent the night before Anzac Day walking to commemorate those who have served.

Australia's Cam Davis and Canadian teammate Adam Svensson have combined well to stay in contention but have their work cut ...