A new service aimed at helping young people quit vaping and smoking has opened in Canberra, offering free counselling, education and nicotine dependence support.
An investigation by the ACT Ombudsman has found tenants of Housing ACT were left living in unsafe and hazardous housing conditions due to delays in repairs and poor communication with contractors.
An independent interim report to the ACT Legislative Assembly has found the Territory’s budget position has deteriorated over the past decade due to policy decisions, prompting political debate over how to restore fiscal sustainability.
Canberrans are being invited to help decide what the territory’s five federal MPs should prioritise in 2026 at a Community Assembly in Curtin on March 8.
The Canberra Liberals say internal documents reveal mounting pressure on the ACT Ambulance Service, with routine station closures and paramedics working long hours amid staffing shortages.
An unprecedented, detailed image of the Milky Way’s centre has mapped a vast, turbulent web of cold gas around the galaxy’s supermassive black hole, with ANU researchers helping decode how stars form in the extreme environment.