“Honestly, if you told eight-year-old Ruby that she would be doing this right now, she wouldn’t believe you,” says Ruby Holden, of Queanbeyan, who has won a national busking title.
Elizabeth Kovacs
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Elizabeth Kovacs is journalist with CBR CityNews.
The CEW Bean Foundation works to honour those lost at war in pursuit of the truth. It recently hosted a ceremony to observe the 10th anniversary of the dedication of the The War Correspondents Memorial.
One in three Australians feel lonely, and one in six Australians experience severe loneliness, but that's not for 37-year-old Bryant Evans.
From November 4 to 6, 36-year-old Ash Madgwick will be taking to the AIS arena alone to complete an Ultraman challenge by swimming 10km, riding 421km and running a double marathon (84km). But why?
Sixteen-year-old Rory Pittman wouldn’t be alive were it not for a defibrillator that had been won by the Queanbeyan and District Basketball Association as a “lucky door prize” three weeks before he collapsed during a basketball game.
From chemotherapy to hitting bullseyes, 20-year-old sharpshooter Alec Tompkins has been chosen as this year's Aussie Plumbers’ Hidden Talent winner.
Bernd Gruber likes "elegant codes" and to prove it, the ecology and genomics professor has spent 10 years meticulously coding software that won this year's national Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software.
Behind every famous typewriter and computer screen sits a feline friend controlling the strings on their owner’s narrative. At least, this is what Susannah Fullerton says in her latest novel, Great Writers and the Cats Who Owned Them.
Reporter ELIZABETH KOVACS traces the Canberra City Band's century of musical contribution to the city that started with a small brass band of construction workers in 1925.
Four years ago mandatory standards for overnight boarding kennels in the ACT were introduced, but "the ACT government hasn’t policed or enforced any of the legislation since 2021,” says Snuggles Pet Resort owner Noel Martin.
Recognised for her work in wastewater technology, postdoctoral research scientist Dr Samantha McGaughey is the 2025 ACT Emerging Scientist of the Year.
Academic and Canberra author Dr Alison Booth’s latest book is her first foray into crime fiction.
