We took a break from the office on Monday this week and got together for our annual staff development day. It’s a chance for us to work on new ideas for the year ahead, chat to some of our senior management and do a bit of a reset. We had a great day and are refreshed and ready to get stuck back in.

This week we paid a visit to a site in Moss Vale where Sydney company Cloud Carrier plans to build one of the state’s largest gas-fired power stations just to power a data processing complex. As the state looks to build more of these centres, it shows just how enormous their energy needs are.

 And the future looks good for the Bundaleer Community Centre in Warrawong. A charity art auction featuring works donated by Ben Quilty and Ken Done helped raise $65,000 for the centre to keep doing its important work.

Have a great week, and remember, if you have a story idea drop an email to 973@your.abc.net.au.

Justin Huntsdale

Features reporter, ABC Illawarra

A woman who once taught at a Sydney school pleads guilty to the sexual abuse of two students.

The future of a community centre of social housing residents in the NSW Illawarra region has been secured using donations from a charity art exhibition at Sydney's Botanic Garden.

A small town in the NSW Southern Highlands is watching the AI revolution take shape in its backyard, as plans emerge to build one of the state's largest gas-fired power stations to run a data-processing complex.

While wealthy upper-class colonial families were sitting for expensive studio portraits in the 1880s, many with less money were collecting miniature portraits in tiny photo albums like this one.

Thousands of foreshore homes are earmarked for a new inner Sydney suburb along the harbour, but future residents will have a bustling cruise terminal near their doorstep.

Whether you're worried about how old mate's tree next door will hold up in the summer storms, or it's just creating more work for you on the weekend, knowing where you stand can be helpful.