Ninety motorbikes have been stolen in the ACT so far this year and police are warning the number is still on the rise after the number of bike thefts almost doubled between 2022 (98) and 2023 (189).
The ACT government will make a one-off $250 payment to apprentices and trainees in its cost-of-living concessions in the 2024-25 budget.
On the day the Chief Minister delivers the ACT budget for the year ahead, Opposition Leader Elizabeth Lee has pointed to Andrew Barr's 150 broken promises over 13 years and his never having ever delivered a surplus.
"The ACT shows disregard for actual public service delivery. No wonder Canberrans throw up our hands and put up with dirty, litter-strewn, vandalised roads, parks and infrastructure," says letter writer G NIELSEN.
Musical theatre reviewer BILL STEPHENS reflects on Canberra's untiring love of the show Chicago.
UPDATE, MONDAY PM: Police report that a 31-year-old man has been arrested in relation to the alleged incidents near Athllon Drive in Mawson on Saturday.
Here are today’s “CityNews” headlines.
An unnamed Queanbeyan man has won $1 million in a Weekday Windfall lottery.
Police estimate that the vehicle that caused a collision on Erindale Drive on Friday was travelling at more than 200km/h.
The ACT government has announced changes to the Home Buyer Concession Scheme in next week's budget, increasing eligibility to the full stamp duty concession on the first $1 million of property value – a saving of around $34,000 in tax.
Canberra’s ‘Soup Kitchen Lady’, Stasia Dabrowski (1926-2020), a volunteer who ran a mobile soup kitchen feeding thousands from a corner of Garema Place, will be honoured with a $300,000 sculpture.
A 21-year-old man was struck by a wheel that had come loose from a gold Ford Falcon sedan covered in graffiti that was allegedly doing burnouts in Copper Crescent, Beard, on Friday night.
