| Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a beautiful, sunny day today with a top of 21 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital today. |
|
| Experts have warned parents they risk their child taking "one step forward, two strokes back" without consistent exposure to the water. |
|
| Subscriber only: When dam levels drop, higher water prices would encourage conservation, a leading water researcher says. |
|
|
| The Governor-General's office blew its staff budget by nearly $900,000 due to a huge uptick in the number of Australia Day award nominations. |
|
|
| When this little lizard was born earlier in October, it was just 55mm long and weighed half a gram. But it’s huge in a different way. |
|
|
| Subscriber only: Tim the Yowie Man delves into Canberra's haunted buildings and ghost stories. |
|
|
| More than 250 native flower species found in ACT grasslands have evolved over time with the Australian conditions. |
|
|
| Gungahlin Mosque has buildings under construction, but opened the doors to the prayer hall as part of the annual National Mosque Open Day. |
|
|
| Canberra Stadium will host just its fifth opening round NRL game in 19 years when the Raiders play the Titans next year. |
|
|
| A scoring drought and a second-half demolition crushed the Canberra Vikings' grand final dream as they fell short of a maiden title. |
|
|
| Matthew Phelps has taken on some of Australia's most feared bowlers and rubbed shoulders with the elite, but even he started to get the jitters. |
|
|
| A dream planted by Kingston Town in 1982 blossomed for Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi when Lys Gracieux charged to victory. |
|
|
| | Times Past "Increases in Civic car park fees, paid parking in inner suburban streets, and park-and-ride bus services are part of the push by the ACT Government for greater public transport use in the ACT," the front page said on this day in 1989. Yes the lever of parking fees to increase public transport use is one governments have been pulling for decades and still do to this day. Thirty years ago it was Rosemary Follett as chief minister trying to use a bit of stick to get people on the under-populated ACTION buses. READ MORE
|
|
|
|
