29/08/2008 | FOR 60 years HMAS Albatross and the local community have forged strong bonds.
27/08/2008 | THE run down of mental health services in the region was again brought into sharp focus this week when doctors at Shoalhaven hospital broke their normal silence to complain about the long wait for facilities and staff.
25/08/2008 | THE mental health story on the South Coast never seems to get better.
22/08/2008 | THERE was some interesting discussion in the Register office yesterday about Colin, the orphaned baby whale that has captured the hearts of the country.
20/08/2008 | THE tough times being felt across the Shoalhaven this winter should be of concern to us all. With a 30 per cent increase in calls for help to just one charity, the effects of a rising cost of living and a slowing economy are being acutely felt.
18/08/2008 | THIRTY-seven years after Australia ended its involvement in the Vietnam War, some wounds are yet to heal.
15/08/2008 | THERE is a tendency for Australians, and particularly Australian sports fans, to demand nothing other than absolute success.
13/08/2008 | YOU might be wondering where all this talk about airports and train lines and very fast trains has come from. And why now?
11/08/2008 | FRIDAY night’s spectacular and impressive start to the Olympic Games raised a number of questions about the amount of money devoted to sport and the pursuit of gold medals.
8/08/2008 | WOMEN of the Shoalhaven, come forward. Your local government area needs you.
6/08/2008 | BEFORE the naysayers dismiss Jo Gash’s call to have the rail line extended from Bomaderry all the way to the Victorian border, the vision should be examined.
4/08/2008 | THE perils of the guest list could not be better demonstrated by the brawl that has broken out over the pre-meeting meeting of Shoalhaven City councillors last week.
1/08/2008 | NOW that the caretaker period has begun, the countdown to the local government election is well and well truly ticking.
30/07/2008 | AT LAST, it seems the phoney war is over and we can get down to the business of watching what should prove one of most of the most interesting local elections seen in Shoalhaven for years.
28/07/2008 | EARLIER this year, the South Coast Register published a series of stories calling for more food to be grown locally. We pointed out the benefits of local produce for freshness and for reducing transport costs and greenhouse emissions.
24/07/2008 | IT SEEMS ludicrous that when the Department of Local Government warns Shoalhaven City Council that its dealings with a developer, Huscorp, over the sale of community land lack due transparency that the council proceeds to attempt to keep the letter containing that warning secret.
23/07/2008 | SHOALHAVEN City Council’s decision to sell a prime parcel of land to developer Huscorp has rarely been out of the headlines since it was made.
21/07/2008 | THE web of company entities that has enabled Beechwood’s Larry King to push himself to the top of the list of creditors waiting on money from his collapsed firm demonstrates there is something fundamentally flawed in the way business is allowed to operate in this country.
18/07/2008 | THE shadow cast over Stockland’s Nowra expansion does not bode well for the local construction industry or the local economy.
16/07/2008 | IT’S DIFFICULT to imagine the frustration those caught up in the Beechwood collapse, especially now it has been revealed the director who oversaw it stands to receive a hefty payout, thanks to a convoluted company arrangement.