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Authorities close street as fire leaves $500,000 bill

Phillip Thomson A Spence house was gutted by fire on Saturday with an estimated $500,000 damage done.

Second doctor suspended

Phillip Thomson Two doctors from the same medical practice have been suspended within three weeks of each other.

From little garden to an urban farmland

Phillip Thomson This is a garden that one day might lead to a small commercial farm, says landscape designer Bronwyn Morgan.

From backyard to food bowl

Merrily Gemmell, 18 months, with dad Simon Gemmell from Rivett and their aquaponic system.

Phillip Thomson A burgeoning movement in Canberra is aiming to be one step ahead of the looming world food crisis

Airport's flock of galahs a hazard

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Phillip Thomson Canberra has seen planes landing without clearance, cars driving onto the runway and airspace mix-ups.

For tree's a jolly good fella - with a bit of luck

Three single women get in some practice for a tree planting event in a few weeks.

Phillip Thomson So far there are not enough men to sprout the seeds of love, but Edwina Wright and her friends are optimistic.

Making ends meet

Mary Osborne works full time as an aged care worker and also works three night a week stacking shelves at Woolworths.

Phillip Thomson Phillip Thomson talks to three Canberra people in different professions about how they manage to pay the bills.

Driver leads police on chase

Stephanie Anderson A man who led police on a high-speed chase through Canberra suburbs and later tried to flee on foot was arrested on Friday morning.

Teens face court over aggravated burglary

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Two teenagers will face court after the aggravated burglary of a southside home on Thursday.

High speed chase ends in arrest

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A man who led police on a high speed chase and later tried to hide behind a pile of gravel in Garran had been arrested in the early hours of Friday.

A mother's workload vacuum-packed

Busy mum Katie Killion of Latham with her daughter Malia Snell aged 18months.

Tom McIlroy Findings of a study showing Australian women spend about twice as much time on housework and childcare is in no way surprising for Canberra mum Katie Killion.

Burgled pair are remanded in custody

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Christopher Knaus and Michael Inman Two teenagers who broke into the home of a cancer patient were remanded in custody on Friday.

CIT Graduations, May 2013

CIT Tourism and Hotel Management  Graduates (l-r) Emily Smith, Declan Ninnes and Lauren Ferrett at Australia Institute of Sport for the Ceremony.

Full list of Canberra Institute of Technology graduates for May, 2013.

Man who shot guard during heist jailed for 18 years

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Michael Inman A man who shot a security guard during an armed heist has been jailed for 18 years.

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I'll show you a horror budget

Gang-gang dinkus. Illustration by David Pope.

David Ellery In addition to lending his name to one of our city's nicer suburbs, Sir Arthur William Fadden also deserves the credit for imprinting the ''horror budget'' concept so deeply into the national psyche...

Two years after military police raid, seized books are back

News  Simon Maddox from Beyond Q bookshop in Curtin with one of the 21 military doctrine training pamphlets that were seized by military police two years ago and have now been returned.    13 May 2013 Canberra Times photo by Jeffrey Chan.

Ross Peake It may seem beyond belief, but military police have taken two years to deem that ageing handbooks are no longer a threat to national security.

Prison for security guard shooter

Michael Inman Court Reporter A man who shot a security guard during an armed robbery at the Mawson Club has been jailed for 18 years for the ''cowardly'' act.

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Calls for Minister's sacking over new school approvals

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Emma Macdonald The ACT Government may consider legislative changes to the way in which new private schools are approved in the future following community unrest about the latest batch of approvals.

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Kmart acts on skipped brake tests

ACT Attorney General Simon Corbell.

Michael Inman Kmart will donate $50,000 to the ACT-NRMA Road Safety Trust after four of its Canberra auto centres failed to properly conduct brake tests during inspections.

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