Pay up: Defunct Unanderra bakery Betta Maid is fined $63,000 in relation to 10 charges of selling unsafe food and breaching hygiene standards. The charges stem from a salmonella outbreak in 10 aged care facilities on the South Coast and ACT in early 2015. The bakery is reportedly in the red and unlikely to be able to pay the fines.
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TV trouble: WIN TV has to find a new network TV supply agreement after Nine announces it has signed a deal with Southern Cross. WIN’s likely partner is Channel Ten. The future of WIN’s local news bulletins is unclear.
Staying put: The NSW government announces any purchaser of Coniston superannuation company Pillar will have to keep the business in the Illawarra for a decade.
Big change: Beaton Park will become a “regional sporting centre of excellence” under Wollongong City Council’s plan. The redevelopment, planned for the next 10 years, would include four new pools, a new basketball stadium, water slides and upgrades to tennis, football and athletics infrastructure.
Going home: More than a month after he was attacked by a shark, Brett Connellan leaves St George Hospital and heads home on crutches.
Cranky commuters: Crowding on South Coast trains has been frustrating commuters so much a complaint about them is lodged almost every second day for the past two years.
Lake Illawarra mystery: Police are puzzled about the whereabouts of a kayaker after their kayak loaded up with fishing equipment was found on Lake Illawarra.
Yes and no: Wollongong and Shellharbour councils will have to merge, while Kiama and Shoalhaven will each stand alone, the NSW government announces. Shellharbour City Council responds by launching legal action to stop the merger.
Neglect: Schools in the Keira electorate are the third-most neglected in the state, according to education department documents acquired by MP Ryan Park under freedom of information.
Hay okay?: Wollongong MP Noreen Hay says her lawyer tells her that she is not a suspect in an Australian Federal Police investigation undertaken at her electorate office. The investigation related to claims of wrongdoing in a Labor preselection ballot for the seat of Wollongong. This doesn’t stop Labor leader Luke Foley threatening to step down unless Ms Hay resigns from her party position as Opposition whip.
Drunk-driver: A $14 lottery win ended up costing 17-year-old Daniel Ilic his licence and a $900 fine. Ilic celebrated the win with 12 schooners at the pub and then drove home. Police spotted him driving erratically and chased him until he crashed into a guardrail. The P-plater blew 0.151.
Darkness falls: With one corner of UOW Jubilee Oval shrouded in darkness for the whole game due to a failed light tower, the Dragons beat Canberra 16-12 in golden point.
Faking it: A Woonona 19-year-old pretends to be an on-duty paramedic at Central railway station. After “treating” a man, other paramedics get suspicious and the jig is up. The man is later fined $500 by a court.
Big cut: Wollongong psychologist Maris Depers agrees to shave off his one-metre-long dreadlocks to raise funds for women’s refuges in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven. When cut off, the dreadlocks weigh 900 grams.
Drug haul: In police raids on the South Coast police arrest 10 people and seize $500,000 worth of drugs, including cannabis, methamphetamine and ecstasy.
Wrong end: The federal government pledges $50 million to upgrade Appin Road - but the money will be spent at the Campbelltown end and not where two clusters of fatal crashes have occurred.
Leaving town: Myer says it will leave Wollongong when its lease expires on October 2. The space will be taken over by David Jones.
Changing channels: WIN signs a deal with Channel 10 to broadcast its programs from July 1. WIN CEO Andrew Lancaster said the new deal “would not affect the network’s commitment to delivering news”.
Hideous secret: After more than 50 years of silence, former Catholic priest Peter Lewis Comensoli admits in court that he molested three teenage boys in the 1960s.
Jail break: South Coast Correctional Centre staff uncover a rope made of bed sheets after finding a suspicious car in the car park. When confronted, those in the car say they are waiting for two inmates who had planned an escape.
Pulling out: Just 13 days after announcing she would run for the Liberal Party in the seat of Whitlam, Dr Carolyn Currie quits.
Safety swoop: Authorities slap defect notices on all 16 trucks in the North Wollongong depot of Barnetts Couriers in an investigation prompted by a truck connected to the courier company being involved in a fatal crash.
Violence hotspots: Areas of Berkeley, Warrawong, Bellambi, Dapto and Koonawarra - as well as Mangerton and Balgownie - are among those considered the most dangerous spots for domestic violence in a draft Wollongong City Council community safety plan.
Steel support: The state Labor party announces that, if it wins the 2019 election, it will change the laws to ensure taxpayer-funded infrastructure projects use 90 per cent Australian steel.
Set free: Triple murderer Sandor Cikos is granted parole after serving 16 years of a 21-year maximum sentence for killing his partner Allison Penrose and children Jake, 4, and Travis 15 months.
Sad boy: Twelve-year-old Aaron Hamilton was the only one at his family’s Bellambi home when a workshop in the backyard caught fire. He called triple zero but his father Stephen said Aaron blamed himself because he couldn’t do more to stop the fire. “But his actions probably caused the house to be saved,” said his father.