The arrivals terminal at Canberra Domestic Airport was full of ANU jumpers and young faces last night. A flock of students rushed back to the ACT from Melbourne to avoid getting stuck in Victoria's five-day-lockdown, which started at midnight.
A new potential vaccine against Covid that does not need to be placed in cold storage facilities has been found to be effective against major virus variants.
Subscriber: A man who grabbed a startled teenager's buttocks at a Canberra service station just a week after being released from jail has written "some poetry" for a judge about how he is "not sorry".
Subscriber: Australia's domestic spy agency is relying on a popular social media site to help drive its latest recruitment efforts. The Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation has launched a fresh campaign on Instagram in an effort to harvest the potential online breeding ground for new recruits.
The hard-pressed cinemas of Canberra have been thrown a lifeline by the government. Under the SCREEN fund to tide cinemas over in the coronavirus crisis, the Limelight in Tuggeranong and the Dendy in the Canberra Centre will both get $85,000. The Palace Electric will get $60,000.
Subscriber | Opinion: Scott Morrison doesn't hold a hose - we know that by now. Nor does he seem overly keen to pick up a telephone. But he's happy to grab a microphone when necessary, writes Jenna Price.
A new bar, cafe, ice creamery or even canoe hire outlet could soon be housed in the East Kiosk at Commonwealth Place on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin.
Subscriber: It's a sign of these crazy COVID-19 times - even the Canberra Raiders' van has to quarantine for two weeks after Raiders welfare manager David Thom's 12-hour road trip to deliver the club's training gear to the Green Machine's temporary Queensland home.
Subscriber | Opinion: In the very first sentence of the press release announcing the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise, we hear about how the project will create jobs - which we might read as "attract votes", writes Bradley Perrett.
A group of 15 people led by Member for Canberra Alicia Payne protested the potential closure of the Centrelink in Braddon on Thursday, calling it an "ideological crusade".
