Local News
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.
17 Nov 09 | THE debate over fireworks has reared up again, with the Legislative Assembly set to contemplate overturning a ban on their sale this week.
17 Nov 09 | The Great Barrier Reef has only a 50-50 chance of survival.
17 Nov 09 | The half a million Australians whose childhoods were shattered through abuse, neglect, and an almost total lack of love in institutionalised care between the 1920s to 1970s were given a new name yesterday: ''The Remembered Australians''.
15 Nov 09 | THE CANBERRA Ice Dragons have entered the Guinness World Records after smashing the previous mark for most distance covered by a dragon boat in 24hours.
15 Nov 09 | PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd says asylum-seekers still aboard the Australian customs vessel the Oceanic Viking won't be treated any differently from the few who have left the ship after a month-long impasse.
15 Nov 09 | FOR ACT Government minister Andrew Barr and his partner Anthony Toms, the timing of their civil partnership celebration at the National Library yesterday evening, in front of about 100 guests, could not have been more perfect.
15 Nov 09 | THE RUDD Government has upped the pressure on the Opposition over the emissions trading scheme by agreeing to exclude agriculture from the legislation to be debated this week.
15 Nov 09 | FOR DIMINUTIVE skydiver Pina Prosperi, jumping from 10,000 feet in a teddy bear suit was nothing compared to the mob reception from gleeful kids.