Police have arrested a teenager over the stabbing of a 16-year-old boy this afternoon at Ulladulla, on the state’s south coast.

Just after 3pm today, police and ambulance paramedics were called to Green Street, Ulladulla, where the victim was discovered suffering a stab wound to his stomach.

The boy was initially taken to Milton Hospital and later airlifted to Sydney’s St George Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

Just before 5.30pm, police arrested a 15-year-old boy in the Ulladulla C.B.D.

He was taken to the Ulladulla Police Station where he is assisting detectives with their inquiries.

Other police are continuing to search Green Street and the surrounding area for a crime scene.

They are also seeking any witnesses to the incident.

Anyone with information about the matter is urged to contact Nowra detectives on (02) 4421 9699 or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000. 

A NEWBORN sperm whale has washed up on the reef at Currarong.

Attempts to coax it back out to sea appear to have failed and a vet has been summoned, possibly to euthanase it.

SANCTUARY Point Public School went into lockdown twice on Friday after an intruder stabbed a man in the arm on the school grounds.

A man walked onto a construction site at the front of the school, where workers were building new facilities as part of the Building the Education Revolution program, and was confronted by the 41-year-old site manager at about 11.40am.

The intruder produced a knife and a syringe, and stabbed the site manager twice in the left arm before fleeing the scene east along Idlewilde Avenue.

The worker sustained two lacerations, measuring 10cm and 5cm long.

Police were called and the school was immediately locked down as officers searched the grounds for the offender.

After the search found no trace of the man, aged in his late 20s or early 30s, the lockdown was lifted and normal classes resumed, but a second lockdown was ordered following reports the intruder may have been nearby.

The report proved to be false, and the school was given the all-clear a short time later.

However students outside the school said the day’s events had been “scary”.

By late Friday police had not located the man, described as being tall, slim and of dark complexion, with a goatee beard and moustache growth. At the time of the incident he was wearing a blue or green jumper, torn baggy jeans, and white runners.

Police believe he was not targeting any students, but may have been interested in stealing items from the building site.

Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact Nowra Police on 4421 9699, or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

SIX people were taken into custody after a dramatic raid in Huskisson on Wednesday morning.

As dawn broke over the normally quiet seaside town, heavily-armed police pointed weapons at a house in Tomerong Street, demanding the inhabitants emerge with their hands raised.

Tactical Operation Unit officers joined police from the Shoalhaven Target Arrest Group, Highway Patrol and detectives to surround the house shortly before 7am.

A short time later, five men and a woman emerged with their hands on their heads.

Tactical Operations Unit officers secured the home, before police searched the premises with the aid of drug and firearm sniffer dogs.

Inside the home police allegedly located a .22 calibre rifle, a silencer from a different firearm, 57.4 grams of cannabis in two bags, 22 ecstasy tablets in various locations around the home, other drug paraphernalia, a sum of cash, a phial of steroids, and other tablets that are still being analysed.

The six occupants were taken into custody, with police later releasing the woman, while a 19-year-old man was released after receiving a cannabis caution.

The four other 19-year-old men were charged with a range of drug offences, while one was also charged with possessing an unregistered and unlicensed firearm, and not keeping a firearm safely.

Three of the men were given conditional bail to face Nowra Local Court on July 19.

The fourth man, Nathan Ray Aldous, 19, of Tomerong Street, Huskisson, was refused bail and faced Nowra Local Court on Thursday morning charged with possessing a prohibited drug.

Evidence presented to the court said Aldous lived in the home raided and was allegedly one of the people who owned a bag containing 50.5 grams of cannabis found inside a locked safe in one of the bedrooms.

He was granted unconditional bail to reappear before court on July 5.

BEER Truck rollover 24 june 2010.Driver was treated for minor injuries.Police are investigating cause of accident.

ANOTHER graffiti attack over the weekend has prompted police to ask people to report any suspicious activity.

In an effort to stamp out continued problems caused by graffiti around Nowra, police have asked local residents to report any suspicious activity to Nowra Police on 4421 9699.

Officers said the weekend’s graffiti attack was not as severe as a couple of weeks earlier, but it was still worrying enough to demand action.

Police have also asked residents to lock up their valuable items following the theft of several canoes from the Lake Tabourie area over the long weekend.

The canoes were all taken from the same address in two thefts on Friday and Saturday.

Police said the thieves appeared to take one group of canoes on Friday, before returning the following day to take a second lot.

Anyone with information about the thefts, which would have required a trailer to move the canoes, is also urged to call Nowra Police.

A SPATE of thefts throughout the Shoalhaven in the past year has been reflected in the latest Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research figures.

Crime figures for the year to March 2010 show a sharp rise in the number of thefts in shops and homes when compared to the previous year.

The number of recorded incidents of people stealing from retail stores jumped 21.4 per cent during the quarter, while incidents of stealing from a home were up 21.6 per cent.

Thefts from motor vehicles rose 15.3 per cent over the same timeframe, while there was no significant change in other crime categories over the two years.

Shoalhaven bucked the trend set by the rest of the state, which recorded stable levels of thefts from retail stores and homes over the two years, while thefts from motor vehicles fell by 12.8 per cent in the year to March 2010, compared to the previous 12 months.

Throughout the state reports of many crimes fell over the two years.

They included robbery with a weapon, robbery with a weapon other than a firearm, break and enter a home, break and enter a building other than a home, motor vehicle theft, fraud and malicious damage to property.

The only major crime category that rose during the two years was indecent assault, act of indecency and other sexual offences, which increased by 3.3 per cent.

AN OLD Erowal Bay man who had one year to go on a five-year driver’s licence disqualification, will now have to wait until 2013 to drive again.

Appearing in Nowra Local Court last week, Dean Michael Jurancic, 21, of The Wool Road, was also fined $2000 for driving while disqualified and $1000 for riding an unregistered and uninsured motorcycle.

At 5.35pm on April 16, police were patrolling the Sanctuary Point and Old Erowal Bay areas when they saw Jurancic riding a motorcycle on The Wool Road’s cycle way.

When they stopped him and asked him for his licence, Jurancic admitted he had lost it for five years for speeding.

The police next asked for his registration papers and Jurancic said he was taking the bike to his father’s place and was going to ride through the bush to get there.

A check showed he was disqualified from 2006 to 2011.

The Eurobodalla Shire Council on the New South Wales far south coast says a new proposal will help to avoid any future disappointment surrounding the arrival of cruise ships at Batemans Bay.

Earlier this year, the Volendam was unexpectedly diverted to Eden due to concerns surrounding a sand bar in the Clyde River.

The Council's proposal is intended to alleviate any concerns cruise captains might have, and includes navigation assistance into the Bay, and the use of buoys to mark the route across the sand bar.

The Council's General Manager, Paul Anderson, says dredging the sand bar is not an option, but there is no danger to ships.

He says he hopes the cruise operator, Holland America, will accept the proposal.

"We had some discussions with them early in the piece, and worked through what their concerns were," Mr Anderson said.

"So we've tried to structure a response to their concerns.

"We now need to see whether our response actually meets up to what they need or what they want, and whether or not we're actually able to move forward."

The New South Wales Government says a subdivision approval near Batemans Bay on the far south coast is an important milestone.

The $3.8m Sunshine Bay subdivision was approved yesterday, and represents the final stage in the development of the estate, which began in the mid-1980s.

It allows for an extra 138 lots, and will help the Eurobodalla Shire Council meet its housing targets under the South Coast Regional Strategy.

The Planning Minister, Tony Kelly, says the project has been thoroughly assessed, and the company behind the development will help pay for the public works involved.

"They'll be making significant contributions to local infrastructure, particularly open space, cycleway and pedestrian facilities, and arterial roads," he said.

"It has been zoned for residential development for the past 11 years, and it doesn't contain any threatened flora species or endangered ecological communities."