Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
Five ACT non-government schools will share in $3.8 million of ACT government infrastructure grant funding that includes the construction of new and expanded classrooms and the refurbishment of staff facilities.
A 24-year-old Vietnamese national is the first person to be charged with Commonwealth supply and possession of vaping goods offences in the ACT after he was arrested in his vehicle in Phillip on Friday afternoon.
Canberra will get a new, $510 million National Convention Centre, if a Liberal government is elected on October 19.
Changes to the Corrections Management Act weaken the rule that people who are held in custody while awaiting trial must be detained separately from convicted prisoners, says the ACT Human Rights Commission.
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
A 36-year-old man is facing court charged with assaulting his partner over the course of several years.
Two drivers have been caught travelling more than 45km/h over the speed limit, in two separate incidents in Weston Creek on Thursday night.
"Despite the fact that the standard bottle of Bin 180 sells for $1180 (such synchronicity!), the three-litre bottles were more than 15 times as expensive, with people being prepared to pay for the unique," says wine writer RICHARD CALVER.
Fifty four drivers have been fined for failing to stop at red lights across Canberra after dash-cam footage was provided to police.
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
Passengers will travel free for at least six weeks as Transport Canberra upgrades its ticketing system on buses and trams from September 20
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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