Royal Australian Mint releases new coin honouring animals that served in war
The coins went on sale at 8:30am this morning, but some keen collectors have been in the queue since yesterday evening.
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The coins went on sale at 8:30am this morning, but some keen collectors have been in the queue since yesterday evening.
A man convicted of raping his former partner 11 times has been jailed for more than 13 years, with the judge saying "no woman deserves to be the subject of this appalling treatment".
Police went to a home in Scullin on Wednesday night where they say they were confronted by a woman screaming and a man allegedly preventing her from leaving the house.
James Griffin is accused of sending harassing messages via Facebook to ACT Legislative Assembly member Tara Cheyne.
The court heard Marquis Monte Rex Mack raped the woman and labelled parts of her body with a permanent marker, while also threatening to distribute intimate images. He will be eligible for parole in 2026.
The 18-year-old Canberran took up skateboarding less than four years ago, but to perfect her skills she had to keep travelling to Sydney. Now a new vert ramp in the capital has changed that.
A 21-year-old man who admitted to a one-punch attack which left a father of four with an irreversible brain injury is jailed for a maximum of six years.
Police documents reveal 40-year-old Christopher Joseph Lichtwark yelled "I'm going to get you" as he chased the three girls around the Dickson shopping precinct, before a witness called emergency services.
Recovery from these surgeries can take six months, something doctors hope could be alleviated by new technology.
Atem Marol Deng, 38, appears in court charged with murder and arson after the remains of 36-year-old Bor Ador Deng were found in a Canberra house last week.
Kat Rae has taken out the 2024 Napier Waller Art Prize for her interpretation of the mountain of paperwork she was left with following her husband's death.
For 16 days this year Yass Valley residents were ordered not to drink the town water during a boil water alert, and local doctors say general water quality remains a major concern for people and their health.
ACT police say the 29-year-old man threatened multiple people before a police chase ensued, while a witness says he was arrested with "guns drawn".
The man was part of a trio who conspired to defraud the Commonwealth government by preparing candidates from companies they were associated with for government contracts. Their scheme stood to earn them $1.6 million, had they not been caught.
A Canberra grandmother escapes conviction for filming a video containing child abuse material of her granddaughter and posting it privately to social media platform TikTok, in a case ACT Supreme Court Justice Belinda Baker described as "highly unusual".
Donald Morley pleaded guilty to suffocating his 92-year-old wife, Jean Morley, with a pillow last year. A Canberra court today heard he was suffering from terminal skin cancer.
Former Olympian and Australian Federal Police commander Danielle Woodward is disqualified from driving for six months after crashing her car into a tree with a blood alcohol reading nearly three times the legal limit.
If you're caught with an unprescribed nicotine vape in the nation's capital, the law states you can be fined 320 times more than if you were possession of a gram of heroin. The government says this "makes no sense".
A Canberra man is denied bail for charges of forcible confinement, burglary and assault after allegedly forcing his partner into his car and fleeing the scene with her, after breaking into her ex-boyfriend's home and assaulting him.
Blindsided staff and out-of-pocket customers speak out after Canberra day spa Adytum entered liquidation.
Alex Ophel is accused of attempting to murder two female students at the Australian National University in September 2023.
Joshua Ware, 37, is sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court to four years in jail after a jury found him guilty of raping a woman twice in January last year.
A Yass pub says it's spending at least $50 a day on bottled water, while GPs are relying on hand sanitiser, as a treatment problem with the water supply remains one week on from when it started.
Michael O'Connell is sentenced to 15 years in jail for the murder of Danielle Jordan, who fell from the bonnet of his moving car in April 2022.
Matthew Simpson and Addison Bhimjiani were passengers in a car being driven by another 17-year-old, when they ploughed into a power pole on Windsor Road on Monday night.