NSW woman charged over stabbing death

A woman has been charged over the stabbing murder of a man on the NSW south coast.

The 39-year-old man was found with stab wounds to his back on the footpath near a reserve in the Lake Illawarra region on Sunday night.

Paramedics were called but he died at the scene.

Police arrested a Lake Illawarra woman, who was nearby.

The woman, 38, was known to the man, police say.

She appeared in Port Kembla Local Court on Monday and will return to court on December 17.