Shoalhaven News

It's feared a development once banned by Shoalhaven council but now given approval will open the way for similar illegal operations. A shed on Sunnymede Lane Berry was fitted out and operated as tourist accommodation without council approval. The operation was stopped, but the owners have now requested council approve it as...

South Coast Police are asking for our help to find this man ( pictured). Thirty-eight-year-old Nathan Whiting is wanted on two outstanding warrants and his last known address was in the Batemans Bay area. The two conviction warrants, relate to prohibited weapons and domestic violence offences. He described as being of caucasian appearance,...

The Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre is due to re-open next month with a new-look Encoré Café & Bar.  Shoalhaven City Council appointed Nowra-based architectural firm Edmiston Jones to manage the project, which to date has employed over 120 workers from 10 sub-contractors completing in excess of 3000 work hours to date.  The centre, which closed in March 2020...

The Red Head Villages Association has voted to censure eight Shoalhaven City Councillors who opposed a buyback of unburnt forest in Manyana slated for a 182-home housing development. The motion was put forward at the association's Ordinary General Meeting on April 3 by Manyana Matters Environmental Association. In a survey of members...

Member for South Coast, Shelley Hancock MP has called on people, businesses and community groups to apply for grants, through the Aboriginal Fishing Trust Fund, that would maintain and protect Aboriginal cultural fishing. Mrs Hancock said the Fund was offering $500,000 in grants and loans to support community projects on the...

Shoalhaven City Council has won two awards in the 2021 Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia (IPWEA) Excellence Awards.  The awards recognise the most outstanding public works engineering projects and professionals. Council has won the Environmental Enhancement Project or Initiative Including Recovery, Recycling and Reusing Award for Shoalhaven Water’s Reclaimed Water Management Scheme...

Marine Rescue Batemans Bay had to head off shore yesterday after a boat radioed for help south of Moruya. The 5-6 metre vessel was found around 15-nautical miles out, on the shelf. It's electrical system had failed but the two people on board managed to restart it and M R Batemans 30...

Three people, including a young child, have died in a single-vehicle crash on our South Coast this morning. About 4.30 emergency services were called to the Princes Highway, Lake Tabourie, about 13km south of Ulladulla, following reports a Honda Accord travelling north left the road and hit a tree. The female driver,...

A bookkeeper has been charged after allegedly defrauding her clients of more than $1.5 million over the last decade. In October last year, the State Crime Command’s Financial Crime Squad established Strike Force Strathwallen to investigate reports a family business had been defrauded by a woman employed to manage the company’s...

L’Étape Australia by Tour de France will host face-to-face local community meetings in April ahead of the cycling event that has been rescheduled for December. A first series of meetings will take place from April 12-14 at berry, Kiama and Robertson. During these meetings, the organisers will present the 2021 local community engagement campaign...