Primary students at Illawarra Christian School’s Tongarra Campus are among the 30,000 students in Australia who last week attempted to break the Guinness World record for the most people skipping at the same time.

POLICE are now cracking down on anti-social behaviour on the South Coast train line.

The countdown to the Illawarra and South Coast Region Local Business Awards starts this week and many local businesses are expected to participate.

Nobody wants a close encounter with cancer but, thanks to the fundraising efforts of three determined sisters who have had more than their share of the disease, chemotherapy won’t be quite such a drag from now on.

The Illawarra Tobacco Control Conference on Friday, May 30 will bring together health workers concerned about the uptake of smoking by young people.

Eight Illawarra-based Aboriginal women have received new qualifications to help them work in the aged care and community services industry.