Hamish Boland Rudder on Gungahlin

Inner north, Gungahlin among nation's most charitable

Hamish Boland-Rudder Residents of Gungahlin are among the most generous in Australia, as the ACT comes out on top of a list of the most charitable jurisdictions in the country, according to a new report released on...

Ngunnawal shop robbed at knifepoint

Hamish Boland-Rudder Police are investigating after two knife-wielding men robbed a supermarket in Canberra’s north on Saturday night.

Government to update Canberra speed signs

Hamish Boland-Rudder Improving more than 150 speed limit signs on the ACT’s arterial roads is a good start, but upgrades should extend to more residential areas, according to one local road safety campaigner.

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Bomb scare keeps residents out of homes for night

Hamish Boland-Rudder and Matthew Raggatt Homes in Ngnunnawal were evacuated, and residents kept out for much of the night after a suspicious package was found during a search warrant on Thursday night.

A beginner's guide to two-up in Canberra

Hamish Boland-Rudder The odds in a game of two-up are simple. The pennies fly in the air, and, in a traditional two-coin game, you can either have two heads, two tails, or one of each.

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Woman robbed in shopping centre car park

Hamish Boland-Rudder Two men, one of whom may have been armed, robbed a woman as she tried to get into her car at a shopping centre in Canberra's north over the weekend.

Multiple crashes in region leave two injured, one dead

Hamish Boland-Rudder Two people have been taken to hospital in separate traffic incidents in Canberra on Thursday morning, while an elderly truck driver has been killed after his vehicle hit a tree on the NSW South Coast.

Mum, fret, and tears: the start of class and the end of an era

Hamish Boland-Rudder There may have been pre-school and orientation days for the children, but seemingly there is nothing that can prepare a parent for the separation of the first day of kindergarten.

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Tears on school's first day - and that's just the parents

Hamish Boland-rudder Tiarni Mara virtually jumped out of bed after being woken by her brother Aiden on Monday morning. It was her big day, at last.

Wild weather makes for day of dramatic rescues

Stephanie Anderson, John-Paul Moloney, Hamish Boland-Rudder Two teenage girls have narrowly escaped drowning after an off duty firefighter pulled them from swollen floodwaters in Gungahlin.

Anti-mosque flyer did not breach laws

Lisa Cox, Hamish Boland-Rudder A controversial anti-mosque flyer distributed in Gungahlin has probably not breached the ACT’s Discrimination Act, but has prompted the Human Rights Commissioner to again call for stronger...

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Full alert as flood warning upgraded

Hamish Boland-Rudder, Christopher Knaus, Jacqueline Williams Both Queanbeyan and Oaks Estate are expected to exceed their minor flood levels this morning as heavy rain continues to fall across the region.

Flood watch in ACT and surrounding regions

Edited by Hamish Boland-Rudder Full coverage of evacuations, warnings, river levels and weather forecasts. All times are in AEDT.

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Demolition to begin at Mitchell fire site

Hamish Boland-Rudder Six months after a massive blaze engulfed the building, spewing potentially toxic plumes of smoke into the air, a chemical storage facility in Mitchell will be demolished.