Cute but powerful. This Canberra girl took on a cereal company in November, forcing it to change its product packaging. Canberra girl Daliah Lee, who is eight years old, brought Kellogg's to its knees, forcing it to put girls on Nutri-Grain boxes starting from 2019.

One of five people arrested over drug trafficking allegations during April was well-known business owner Brendan Baker, who in May said he would fight all 10 charges against him and entered pleas of not guilty.

When the search went out for a permanent tea drinker, more than 45,000 people read the story. As the temperatures plummeted in Canberra and thoughts turned to open fires, cosy throws and curling up on the lounge, the most perfect job to ever exist was advertised.

I am sure everyone reading this news was green with envy. A Canberra man in his 30s won the entire $50 million Powerball jackpot in June. Yes, $50 million.

This news stunk. Literally. Rubbish collection was in October delayed amid drivers' fears their overloaded vehicles were unroadworthy. The ACT government told residents across the city to leave their waste and recycling bins out and they would be collected within 24 hours of their usual scheduled time.

A parent, taking part in many people's daily routine of collecting a child, was killed in an explosion. The news shocked many and affected those connected to the school and family.

A story on the closure of another busy highway because of a fatal collision was also well-read.

A fatal head on collision on the Barton Highway generated a lot of interest. Two people were killed and a further six injured when the vehicles collided on the highway in May, closing the road for several hours.

The initial news story about Adriaan Roodt broke the tragic news that a Campbell High School student from Yass died after an accident during a class exercise on Mount Ainslie in October. School students, teachers and parents were left shocked.

Not again. I am sure that is what most of Australia was thinking when yet another leadership spill took place in Parliament House. The third and fourth most read stories for 2018 on The Canberra Times website were blogs on the spill, which played out over two days.

Since 2007 Australia has had six PMs, and in August Scott Morrison became Australia's 30th Prime Minister.

Mr Morrison defeated Peter Dutton, the chief agitator of the leadership crisis, by five votes. Morrison also defeated Julie Bishop, a late entrant in the leadership race.

When vision of a wild bikie brawl in a Fyshwick strip club surfaced, it was no doubt going to be viewed widely. The shocking footage shows an unconscious bikie being kicked and punched by other gang members as he lay on the floor of the Capital Men's Club about 3am on August 20, 2017.

With the 2003 bushfire, which killed four people and destroyed nearly 500 homes, still etched in people's minds, it is no surprise a live blog on November's Pierces Creek blaze, which burnt more than 147 hectares of bush land, was the most clicked story of the year.

The fire, which burnt for several days, was started by a burnt-out car near pine forrest and was at one stage burning out of control seven kilometres away from Kambah on Canberra's south-west fringe.