Kate Midena

Between July and December of 2024, Canberra Health Services saw a jump in patient visits of 85,000 compared to the first six months of the 2023 financial year, and Health Minister Rachel Stephen-Smith has today announced plans to inject $227.3 million to meet demand.

Canberra residents are recovering this morning after a severe thunderstorm made its way across much of the ACT and surrounding regions yesterday afternoon, knocking out power to around 1,100 households with golf ball sized hailstones and downfalls of 30 millimetres recorded in some suburbs.

The National Library's latest exhibition, Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive, comprises around 150 photographs that illustrate moments in Australian history from the 1890s until the late 1940s.

From the streets of Colombia to the schoolyard in Canberra, Lauren Cannell has spent the past decade using art to educate and empower others — and now she's been recognised as the ACT's 2025 Woman of the Year.

Construction workers are calling on the ACT government to speed up the approval process for development applications amid an ongoing housing crisis.

Thousands of people have come together to mark Anzac Day across the country, 110 years after Australian and New Zealand soldiers landed on the Turkish coastline at Gallipoli.

There's been a surge in support for independents in the ACT, with David Pocock re-elected to the Senate and first-time candidate Jessie Price poised for a possible upset for Labor in Bean.

When Greg Thompson became bishop of Newcastle, he refused to turn a blind eye to the decades-long child sex abuse scandals in the diocese. For him, it was personal. He was himself a sexual abuse survivor. But speaking out came at huge cost. 

The administrators of Brindabella Christian College in Canberra's north say the school spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a robot dog and an overseas trip while it may have been insolvent.

Vowing to be a modern, optimistic and visible governor-general, Sam Mostyn has adopted a "culture of care" as a key focus of her term. So how has she done that over her first year in the job? And can she help Australia during these polarised times?