ACT

The weather bureau forecasts above-average rainfall across the east coast in coming months, which is good for some farmers and challenging for others.

A budget deficit and proportionally high debt, along with rising health costs and major infrastructure projects, see ACT's credit rating downgraded to AA.

A mother and son have been cleared of kidnap charges after they collected two of the woman's younger teenage sons as they walked to school and took them interstate, away from their father.

Coles says the cost of living and supply chain disruptions are behind its decision to continue selling caged eggs until 2030. A consumer expert says it is likely the supermarket's competitors will follow suit.

Canberra's only prison breached the human rights of a former Aboriginal detainee by illegally strip-searching her while she was held in remand there in 2021, the ACT Supreme Court has found.

The new portrait comes in two parts — known as a diptych — and will be on display at the National Portrait Gallery from September 6 to mark Tina Arena's 50-year career.

The mid-00s was the age of fallen kids TV stars like Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes. It's now the setting of a riff on Shakespeare's Macbeth.

Seven men have been arrested and another man is in custody in relation to a double stabbing in Queanbeyan last month, in what NSW Police say was a targeted attack connected to outlaw motorcycle gang activity.

Your health is at stake as climate change impacts deepen, but it's not too late to do something about it, according to the new chair of the ACT Climate Council. And some Australians making hyperlocal changes are already reaping surprising benefits.

Victorian company Palmanova loses its High Court battle over the possession of a pre-Columbian basalt artefact, bought from an American gallery in 2020.

An independent working group has found systemic issues within Libraries ACT, including that workplace culture is affecting morale and contributing to increased closures.

The man is one of three people who were slated to be removed to Nauru in February under the government's newly minted agreement with the island nation, which was stepped up at the weekend with a $400 million deal.

Experts are on edge, fearing this will be the spring that the "catastrophic" H5 strain of bird flu arrives in Australia. 

A 17-year-old boy who admitted possessing and controlling extremist material and was described as having a fixation on violent jihad has been released on a two year recognizance order by the ACT Children's Court today.

The total cost to the ACT government of its controversial Calvary Public Hospital takeover has been revealed as $151 million — made up of a compensation settlement of $88 million plus $63 million in waived debts, liabilities and other financial offsets.

NBL player Ben Griscti fractured a vertebra after a backboard collapsed on him during training, before waiting more than 90 minutes for an ambulance to take him to a nearby hospital.

A Chinese national charged with reckless foreign interference indicates she'll fight the charge after entering a plea of not guilty in the ACT Magistrates Court.

They served their country, but veterans are struggling to find GPs that accept the veteran healthcare card, leaving them stranded.

Many people don't want to become long-term volunteers, Yolandi Vermaak realised. So she came up with a new system to allow people to get involved and save the wombats.

Winter is almost over, but there was fresh snowfall across NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT overnight.