Known for its flourishing seal population, Montague Island off the NSW south coast will be identified by a dual Indigenous name to recognise traditional owners.
A new 6.3 metre walk-through console Naiad (NYE-ADD) boat is closer to going into service at Marine Rescue Batemans Bay on the NSW South Coast after passing its sea trial.
Residents along the NSW southern coast have been urged to prepare their homes and avoid driving if possible with forecast heavy rain and flash flood risk.
The Fix The Brown community campaign says the Brown Mountain road is unsafe, unstable, unreliable, unsustainable and totally inappropriate for the 21st century.
Three people – including two teenagers – have been charged over the fatal stabbing of a man on the NSW South Coast last year during a bungled street robbery.
An 11-year-old boy who was pulled from the water at Bawley Point on the NSW South Coast yesterday afternoon died at Batemans Bay Hospital a short time later.