Local News
18 Nov 09 | The head of the charity that brought conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna to Melbourne for surgery has described the sight of the girls in separate beds as "beautiful".
18 Nov 09 | Police today shot a man in a confrontation at a house in Sydney's south-west.
18 Nov 09 | He may be just months away from taking up his post as ambassador to the United States, but Kim Beazley was focused yesterday on a different episode in the history of Australian-American relations.
18 Nov 09 | The Federal Government has pushed back politically difficult decisions about the rationalisation and possible closure of military bases until after the next federal election.
18 Nov 09 | An independent traffic report says 250 people will use a new mosque planned for Nicholls during peak times and the proposal to provide just 71 parking spaces on the site will met the Territory Plan's needs.
18 Nov 09 | Moves to make Canberra carbon neutral by 2060 have been criticised for failing to outline clear reduction targets.
18 Nov 09 | ACT Policing has apologised for any inconvenience caused by one of its operations during peak hour in Tuggeranong yesterday morning, but says the results were worth it.
18 Nov 09 | ACT Policing says it is concerned for the welfare of two children who were unlawfully taken from Ainslie School on Monday afternoon.
18 Nov 09 | Embattled ACT Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill resigned from his position yesterday after 34 years on the bench, citing ill health.
18 Nov 09 | Victoria Police helped an elderly South Coast man find his way home after a nine-hour road trip that took him more than 600km off-course from Yass and into the wrong state.
18 Nov 09 | ACT school students are already exceeding new recommendations to increase their sporting participation, with the ACT set to be the first state or territory to implement physical activity as part of the national curriculum.
18 Nov 09 | Australians should lower their expectations for Olympic gold medals, according to a new report which urges the Government to shift funding away from the Games towards more popular sports.
17 Nov 09 | Thursday is looming as a day of considerable fire danger, as temperatures soar during what is likely to be Canberra's hottest November on record.
17 Nov 09 | WORK will begin on the Lanyon Drive duplication in the coming weeks, more than four years after it was first promised.
17 Nov 09 | Work is set to begin on the second stage of the $19million Lanyon Drive upgrade, with two extra lanes to be added to the stretch of road between Sheppard Street and Tompsitt Drive by 2011.
17 Nov 09 | A large amount of cash and powder, possibly cocaine, has been found in a car destroyed in a smash near Yass which killed four young Asian men.
17 Nov 09 | CANBERRA Airport has challenged the validity of the Section 65 Certificate issued to Queanbeyan council last week for its draft Queanbeyan Local Environment Plan (South Tralee) 2009.
17 Nov 09 | WHILE the culling of supposedly healthy trees has caused uproar within the Canberra community, the same can not be said for the steadily-decreasing trees lining Norse Road, in Queanbeyan.
17 Nov 09 | THE most significant open space area in Weston Creek, the CIT gardens, will be maintained despite the probable transformation of the campus into a school.
17 Nov 09 | FROM clothing and canned foods to specially bought gifts, the students from Hawker College have dug deep for those less fortunate in the lead up to Christmas.