Shellharbour City Council’s landmark court case against two of its councillors, which resumed on Monday, saw Mayor David Hamilton questioned and local businessman and witness Peter Holstein renege on his earlier evidence.

Vandalism rates have dropped significantly in Shellharbour over the last three years, yet motorists are paying higher motor insurance premiums than drivers in some major metropolitan cities.

Watch out gentlemen, it’s a leap year, which according to folk tradition is the only time when women can propose marriage to men, and they may just use St Valentine’s Day to do so.

In every square kilometre of ocean, it is estimated there are over 18,000 pieces of plastic, causing marine birds and animals serious injury and even death.

Shellharbour City Council has received the green light to begin work on the widely publicised marina precinct, a project council staff have described as “one of the biggest of it’s type in the state”.

Member for Shellharbour Lylea McMahon has accused Wollongong City Council general manager David Farmer of dragging the chain on the Fowlers Road Bridge Project at Dapto, saying the local community deserved to be treated better.