A 17-year-old P-plater has had his licence suspended on the spot after police caught him driving – "to a mate's house" – at 117km/h in a 60km/h zone in Watson on Saturday night.
Tireless campaigner John Mikita – grandson of Irma Palasics, who was murdered during a robbery at her McKellar home in 1999 – is among the 25 preselected Canberra Liberals candidates for the October 19 Legislative Assembly election.
Police issued 30 infringement notices, as well as conducting more than 100 alcohol screenings and two roadside drug tests in a targeted operation in school zones in Tuggeranong and Gungahlin on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The ACT government's urban forest strategy is "at risk" and future planting targets have been reduced because the program lacks appropriate planning, says the auditor-general.
"We have a long history of problems with the grog. Before Australia became a nation in 1901, in colonial parliaments drunken behaviour by members was largely tolerated," writes ROSS FITZGERALD.
NOEL BEDDOE continues his occasional series reminding us why Canberra is the most beautiful place to live… this time he visits Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve.