Elise Pianegonda

From mid-next year, ACT residents will have access to free medical and surgical abortions up to 16 weeks of gestation.

Canberra hot air balloon sculpture Skywhale was damaged by strong winds during a recent display in Ballarat and will require repairs before returning to the skies.

The Chief Minister is asking Canberrans to consider working from home in the new year as the territory records its highest daily tally of cases since the pandemic began.

Canberra Raiders coach Ricky Stuart has apologised after saying that if he could not have “tough conversations” with his players he may as well be coaching netball.

Reports of a possible link between COVID-19 and an inflammatory syndrome are now coming from the UK, US and Italy. But Australian doctors are urging parents to remain calm, reiterating that the combination is extremely rare.

Dr James Muecke’s work preventing blindness earned him the title of Australian of the Year for 2020 but he says firefighters and emergency services workers are the true Aussie heroes.

George Thaung was best known as the man behind late-night food destination The Mandalay Bus, but, since his death, it’s George’s kindness that leaves the biggest hole in Canberra’s heart.

A name and some unusual notes in a magazine, left at a Canberra hospice, catches the attention of police in one of the ACT's longest-running missing persons cases.

The death of a 35-year-old man at Casuarina Sands to Canberra’s west this week prompts calls for lifesavers at popular river swimming spots.

Security footage of a ram-raid at a hotel in the New South Wales town of Queanbeyan shows an armed robber firing a gun at a door while an employee hides behind it.