Seven-year-old Matilda Meek is getting ready to donate more than 60 centimetres of her hair to national fundraising charity, Hair with Heart, reports ELIZABETH KOVACS.
Every week Garran Scouts trudge through littered rubbish and potholed ground to get into their dilapidated hall, now frustrated parents have had enough with an idle government, reports ELIZABETH KOVACS.
Local botanical artist Sharon Field has decided to paint a plant, object or animal a day for 3000 consecutive days in an active stand against the effects of climate change.
Media personality and former sports presenter Lucy Zelic returns to her Canberra roots as guest speaker at an International Women’s Day lunch to raise funds for cancer care nurses, reports ELIZABETH KOVACS.
Now in her thirties and working as a mental health nurse, Rasa Kabaila says no amount of studying in university could have prepared her for the realities she would face. So she wrote a book to help new nurses.
After finding most commercial baby foods didn’t contain the government recommended level of nutrients and fats, Canberra mum Janae Henkel stepped up and made her own, reports ELIZABETH KOVACS.
Ahead of the upcoming Royal Canberra Show, new president of the Royal National Capital Agricultural Society Toni Rolls says working in agriculture has always been in her blood, reports ELIZABETH KOVACS.
When Carla Rodeghiero, owner of Canberra Region winery Sapling Yard, entered her blended red 2023 wine, The Extrovert, into the Australian and NZ Boutique Wine Awards, she knew “it would probably get something”.
ANU professor Susan Scott was recently awarded the prestigious George Szekeres Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society for her outstanding contribution to research in the mathematical sciences. ELIZABETH KOVACS reports.