Today is November 9, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, New South Wales recorded one new locally transmitted case of COVID-19 over the weekend, in addition to seven cases reported in overseas travellers, all in hotel quarantine, and a motorcycle rider has been flown to St George Hospital in a critical condition, after being flung from his bike and down an embankment on Mount Kembla.

Today is November 6, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, the recommendation to approve the Dendrobium mine expansion has angered people concerned about its impact on scores of Aboriginal heritage sites, many set to be directly undermined, and as the Christmas shopping period kicks off in earnest, David Jones has confirmed it will not be bringing back its food court or making use of the now empty basement-level space at Wollongong Central any time soon.

Today is November 5, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, Menulog will not be replacing the giant misspelled billboards it installed in Wollongong's southern suburbs, and there will be no new schools built in West Dapto for the next 20 years, despite the massive boom in population in the area, according to the latest draft of the NSW Government's Illawarra Shoalhaven plan for 2041.

Today is November 4, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, the hotly debated redevelopment of Corrimal Coke Works has been identified as a significant site for future housing, and a number of other suburbs - like Oak Flats, Dapto, Warrawong and Gerringong - could be in line for higher-density homes in the future, and there is no way to stop the juggernaut that is pre-poll voting, according to a NSW Parliamentary committee.

Today is November 3, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, the Illawarra and Shoalhaven region has around 30 years to get to a net zero emissions target set by a newly released draft plan, and something needs to be done about the "underwhelming" entrances to the Wollongong CBD, according to a draft plan for the region.

Today is November 2, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, a small group of climate protesters stopped traffic by protesting in the middle of the Wollongong CBD's busiest intersection on Sunday afternoon, and showers are set to ease across the Illawarra this week, as the State Emergency Service predict more weather events like what the region experienced this weekend.

Today is October 30, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, students plan to again take to the streets of Wollongong this Sunday to demand climate action, and the ship that lost 50 containers in waters off the Illawarra coast in May had done so before - the last time it visited Australia.

Today is October 29, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, Kiama High School was among more than 30 NSW high schools to have received anonymous threatening emails over the last two days, and Robertson residents are fed up with car hoons "drifting" outside their homes and "inaction" by authorities.

Today is October 28, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, Wollongong's beaches should automatically be classed as full every Sunday, one Wollongong councillor says, as the city grapples with growing congestion and a lack of parking along its coastline, and Wollongong City Council is considering whether it can offer a reward to those who come forward with information on tree vandals, after two significant trees at Belmore Basin were destroyed earlier this month.

Today is October 27, 2020 and this is your daily news briefing from The Illawarra Mercury. In today’s update, in just three months Memorial Drive's two new red-light speed cameras have raked in almost as much as the cameras they replaced did over the last year, and a listing featuring two separate titles - one of which has been deemed to be of great significance to Shellharbour's history - will go under the hammer.