The eight-storey hospital at Dunmore reached its highest point on 23 July, four years after the site was secured. Health Infrastructure says the facade and fit-out are still to come, with construction finishing in late 2027, and no opening date has been published. What the $828.9 million actually covers, and the two parts of the project already complete.
28 July 2026
Wollongong City Council has endorsed the rezoning for the region's biggest social-housing renewal: up to 1,200 homes, 60 per cent social and affordable, at three to six storeys instead of the high-rise first proposed. The infrastructure deal with Homes NSW is on exhibition now, and that is where the detail gets decided.
19 July 2026
NSW Ports counted 34,531 imported vehicles in the month and 81,324 for the financial year, 42.3 per cent ahead of the same two months a year earlier. Over that August the national new-vehicle market grew 0.4 per cent.
BOCSAR flags three offences as moving in Wollongong for the year to March 2026: domestic violence assault up 22.5 per cent, breaches of an AVO up 14.7, and drug possession down. Statewide the assault measure is stable.
17,069 residents for each Wollongong councillor, 9,063 in Shellharbour, 2,575 in Kiama. One region, a factor of 6.6, and Wollongong the highest of the 37 councils NSW classifies a regional town or city, by three residents.
Ask what comes through the port and most people say steel and coal. The state's freight data ranks it first for vehicle imports and grain exports, second for coal, and steel is not on the list at all.
Transport for NSW moved traffic onto the new alignment on 17 August, the switch we reported was due mid to late 2026. Mount Ousley Road then closed fully overnight on Wednesday 19 August 2026. What each direction does now, and every other August impact.
18 August 2026
The Parkinson’s Research Foundation paid for an automated imaging platform supporting four projects at Molecular Horizons. What it buys, whose money it is, and why UOW’s share of this foundation’s national giving is the number worth noticing.
18 August 2026
May's disallowance killed the compulsory-livestream rule, so a council may now post a recording afterwards instead. Wollongong, Kiama and Shellharbour all say they still stream. On the public record, two of the three make the recording easy to find.
16 August 2026
The varied Performance Improvement Order moves the deadline to 2027-28, bans outsourcing domestic waste, and requires a business case for Blue Haven Terralong.
19 July 2026
The $390m interchange is 52 per cent complete; Picton Road is funded for planning only. The honest status ledger, from the agencies' own documents.
19 July 2026
Registrations for the Community Reference Group close 5pm Monday 10 August. Urban means rooftops, spare government land and community batteries rather than transmission corridors, and EnergyCo wants locals from eight named backgrounds.
31 July 2026
The land program and the $32.35-a-share question, strictly from BlueScope's own releases, with no outcome asserted because none has been announced.
19 July 2026
No feasibility licences, one withdrawn applicant, and a 1,022 square kilometre declared zone still legally in effect. What lapsed and what is still live.
19 July 2026
Margaret Martin takes over ISLHD from 20 July. Margot Mains, after 12 years, moves to a new NSW Health role aimed at the bed-block problem that most bent her district.
19 July 2026
The state's league table, read for the three councils, against an expectation that tightened to 95 days on 1 July. With the cautions the table itself will not give you.
19 July 2026
Ten-to-one population, a nine-year age gap, and rents that inverted early: our baseline portrait of the region, limits stated plainly.
19 July 2026