Local News
20 Nov 09 | Firefighters will work into the night to extinguish a fire that started in an industrial rubbish yard and forced much of Fyshwick to be evacuated.
20 Nov 09 | A former Ballarat teacher will spend Christmas behind bars for having sex with two students.
20 Nov 09 | A domestically abused man, convicted of strangling his wife to death, has been sentenced to 14 years’ jail under a contentious new Victorian law.
20 Nov 09 | Celebrity gardener Peter Cundall has been arrested and charged with failing to comply with a police direction at a pulp mill protest on the steps of Tasmania's Parliament House in Hobart.
20 Nov 09 | Within hours of waking from a medically induced coma after groundbreaking brain surgery to separate her from her twin sister, Trishna was talking and cuddling her guardian.
20 Nov 09 | Canberra is set for another day of high fire danger today after emerging unscathed from yesterday's scorching conditions.
20 Nov 09 | Seven-year-old Tabitha Ellem has the best story to tell her classmates at Gowrie Primary School after she met wrestling legend Hulk Hogan.
20 Nov 09 | The ACT Government has announced strict new controls to avoid a repeat of the furore over Focus on the Family's teaching in Canberra schools.
20 Nov 09 | Bushfires raged in two states yesterday as temperatures soared, raising fears of a torrid start to another fire season.
20 Nov 09 | The pilot who safely ditched a medical evacuation plane at night in the sea off Norfolk Island has been praised for his skill in saving all six people on board.
20 Nov 09 | A Richardson man who allegedly stole a crucifix in a spree of thefts from local Catholic schools was motivated by boredom, a court has heard.
20 Nov 09 | Two developers were negotiating with the Land Development Agency after two blocks on the prestigious man-made island at the Kingston Foreshore were passed in at auction yesterday.
20 Nov 09 | Australians are deeply divided over genetically modified crops, with almost a third believing they are risky and another quarter unsure of their safety.
20 Nov 09 | Delays in opening the first ACT jail have cost Canberrans an estimated $3.5 million, with the Attorney-General copping criticism for his handling of the project.
19 Nov 09 | Captain Dominic James ran out of options as his plane - carrying a critically ill woman and four others - was running out of fuel near Norfolk Island.
19 Nov 09 | Trishna, one of the formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated by surgery, is awake and being cuddled by her Australian guardian.
19 Nov 09 | Surging public service wages could help force the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates, an economist warns.
19 Nov 09 | A Kambah woman appeared in the ACT Magistrates Court yesterday accused of trafficking sex slaves.
19 Nov 09 | The guardian of twins Krishna and Trishna says her beautiful girls have defied the odds, and that the surgeons who separated them performed a miracle.
19 Nov 09 | The ACT leads Australia in soaring rents and has recorded strong home loan growth despite a nationwide slump in new home starts, reports say.