30 Jun 01 | THE immediate future of Canberra's multi-million dollar broadband company TransACT seems assured with its board committing itself yesterday to continuing the rollout of the broadband network.
30 Jun 01 | YESTERDAY'S assurance that TransACT will continue is welcome news for Canberra which stood to lose a great deal if the venture failed.
30 Jun 01 | COL ALEXANDER is addicted to the adrenalin rush of a close basketball game, when a result is decided by the very last shot.
30 Jun 01 | KANGAROOS coach Denis Pagan said some nice things about Canberra yesterday but still thinks that Manuka Oval lacks the atmosphere of a real Australian football venue.
30 Jun 01 | UNITED STATES Eagles' head coach and former Wallabies hard man Duncan Hall has emerged as the early favourite to succeed Eddie Jones and Rod Macqueen as ACT Brumbies coach.
30 Jun 01 | HARDEN, a town of 2200 people north-west of Canberra, has an unusual problem - how to cope with the benevolence of its local dentist who left it a share portfolio believed to be worth more than $10 million.
30 Jun 01 | THE new ACTTAB headquarters may not be built at Fern Hill Park in Bruce despite developer John Hindmarsh gaining building approval from ACT Planning and Land Management.
30 Jun 01 | CANBERRA shoppers are travelling across the border to find a bargain at the cut-price supermarket Aldi in Queanbeyan.
29 Jun 01 | The immediate future of Canberra's multi-million-dollar broadband company TransACT will be decided at an early-morning board meeting today.
29 Jun 01 | Regardless of whether he gets a start for Queensland in the deciding State of Origin game in Brisbane tomorrow night, life is good for Canberra Raiders fullback Clinton Schifcofske.
29 Jun 01 | Canberra Raiders fullback Clinton Schifcofske has been told that he could play in tomorrow night's State of Origin decider even if star custodian Darren Lockyer passes an 11th hour fitness test today.
29 Jun 01 | Mind games, arithmetic and a few pints are on the cards as the nation's best darts players gather in Canberra for the Australian Grand Masters Tournament at the City Labour Club this weekend.
29 Jun 01 | On the eve of a Test against the British and Irish Lions in which he should have been playing, Wallaby front-rower Bill Young, who fractured his leg in the Super 12 final, last night declared himself a 50-50 chance of playing for the ACT Brumbies against the Lions on Tuesday.
29 Jun 01 | Former chief minister Kate Carnell said last night her appointment to the NRMA road-services board had "absolutely nothing" to do with TransACT's difficulties.
29 Jun 01 | Canberra electrician Bruce Barnett says his Chinese-born wife has been duped, exploited and ordered to leave Australia - a punishment for her naivety.
29 Jun 01 | David Eastman has moved a long way towards obtaining a judicial inquiry into his murder conviction, with the news that ACT Chief Justice Jeffrey Miles will conduct a preliminary hearing on July 12 to decide whether an inquiry is warranted.
29 Jun 01 | An Australian Federal Police agent who was reprimanded for sending sexually humorous cartoons to colleagues' work computers secured a court order in Canberra yesterday barring a transfer from his posting with Interpol in France.
29 Jun 01 | Mandatory sentencing is driven by "misapprehension, insecurity and resentment" and could be more likely to create crime than prevent it, Justice Ken Crispin said yesterday.
29 Jun 01 | If shot firer Rod McCracken had known the ACT Government would have extended by several months the deadline for the demolition of the Royal Canberra Hospital, he would have approached the job differently and been able to use the explosives he wanted, the ACT Magistrates Court heard yesterday.
29 Jun 01 | Voter attitudes to the Budget are important, but take on extra significance in an election year, write GLENN WITHERS and LINDY EDWARDS, of the Australian National University.
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