Here are the Canberra-area locals named among the Order of Australia Honours for the King's Birthday.
An Uber driver was forced at knifepoint to go from Mitchell to the Watson shops, where the assailant took the driver's phone, car key and bank card, and withdrew cash from his account at an ATM.
A teenager suffered minor injuries to his face after being assaulted – possibly with a weapon – by a man outside KFC Dickson on Friday afternoon.
A 39-year-old Kaleen man faces charges of sexually assaulting his partner her while choking her.
A 29-year-old Downer woman has been caught driving, unlicensed, with more than four times the legal blood alcohol limit and with drugs in her system.
A 47-year-old Sri Lankan national has been charged with exposing himself to and indecently touching a 12-year-old girl at a pond in Bonner.
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
A 23 year-old Taylor man, on a suspended licence, has been charged with negligent driving, drug driving and driving while suspended following a single-vehicle collision on Gungahlin Drive, Bruce, late on Thursday night.
In this second of three columns, MIKE QUIRK explores the proposed residential zoning reforms to encourage the development of 'missing middle' dwellings – duplexes, dual occupancies, townhouses and low-rise apartments.
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
Activists will be on the ground nightly at every targeted reserve, engaging in frontline action to monitor, document and protest until the government's kangaroo cull ends on July 31.
Police are urging people to hand in unwanted and unregistered firearms under the permanent National Firearms Amnesty.
