Nadine Morton

A small group of women and girls on a walking tour in Wollongong were so frightened as they were allegedly surrounded and harassed in broad daylight that they called police for help.

Police are calling for witnesses after a woman was allegedly hit in the head with a baseball bat during a brawl in Mangerton.

A surfer has drowned and another person was pulled from the ocean by rescue crews off Jervis Bay.

As a group of women, including a 16-year-old girl, were allegedly surrounded and harassed by a group of 30 teenage boys in Wollongong, the girl's eyes shot to the ground and she started whispering directions.

Four people on the run from police are known to frequent suburbs across the Illawarra, officers say. The fugitives, one woman and three men, are aged from 40 to 58 years old.

At a time when boys are learning to become men about 30 of them are learning to harass women, a University of Wollongong expert said.

Wollongong offshoot tour mobbed and mocked by teen thugs.

The crash led to a significant emergency response.

As the shadows lengthen and the winter chill settles into our bones, it is easy to retreat indoors, turn up the heater, and isolate, but then you would miss out on Dark Scarp.