Penny Travers (nee McLintock) has been working as a digital reporter and producer at ABC Canberra since 2007. She began her career with the ABC in 2003 working as a radio news reporter in Toowoomba. After also working in Rockhampton, she joined the ABC's online team in Brisbane working as a presenter-producer. Penny currently photographs and reports on a wide range of events and issues affecting the Canberra community.
The 48-year-old woman was struck by a utility on Bicentennial Drive at around 8:15am on Sunday. She died at the scene.
John Veloudos used a combination of community support and psychological tricks to complete his first ultramarathon.
People across Australia gather to commemorate Remembrance Day and honour those who have died while serving in conflicts and peace-keeping operations.
Police found the hand statues, along with other allegedly stolen items including a pump action rifle, while searching a 39-year-old man's home in north Canberra.
With Labor set to form government in the ACT, what exactly did the party promise voters during the election campaign?
Vice-chancellor Stephen Parker says the University of Canberra is "spending beyond its means" and needs to save about $50 million in recurrent expenditure by the end of next year.
ACT Labor has been returned to government after 23 years in power, while two independents will sit in the Legislative Assembly for the first time in more than two decades.
Canberrans will head to the polls on Saturday to choose the 11th Legislative Assembly. Here's everything you need to know about where to vote, what time the polls close, how to fill in ballot papers and when we're likely to know results.
The person who brought the sample to CanTEST for checking was "unaware" that it contained fentanyl and surrendered it.
Canberra mother-of-two Laura Haworth was 23 years old when she was last seen at her friend's house in Queanbeyan more than 16 years ago.
Police say they suspect Canberra woman Laura Haworth, who's been missing for more than 16 years, has "met with foul play".
The man and two women who died were passengers in the car when it left Bungendore Road and rolled in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands on Sunday afternoon.
A survey of 2,600 Australians living with chronic pain reveals nearly half of respondents have given up work, while two-thirds report their condition has impacted their family relationships.
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.
Memorial sites along Canberra's Anzac Parade near the Australian War Memorial are graffitied with comments relating to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
Telstra and the ACT government are teaming up to work on a plan to refurbish and reopen Canberra's iconic Telstra Tower which has been closed to the public since 2021.
Police say they are treating the death of a 78-year-old woman in the southern Canberra suburb of Gordon on Sunday as a domestic violence incident.
Australian National University students moved the pro-Palestine encampment overnight after police warned them to leave by midday today or face further action including arrests.
Protesters at a pro-Palestine encampment are given a deadline of midday tomorrow to leave or risk facing further police involvement.
Fruit tree netting with large holes is now prohibited in Canberra backyards, with residents facing fines of up to $800 if caught using it. Netting must now have a mesh size of 5mm by 5mm or smaller.
The head of the ACT Education Directorate, Katy Haire, is taking legal action against the territory's Integrity Commission over its investigation into the Campbell Primary School expansion.
The federal government is showing its support for Stage 2B of Canberra's light rail by committing $50 million to planning the 10-kilometre extension from Commonwealth Park to Woden.
A new convention centre, stadium upgrade, and a hop-on-hop-off bus have been put forward by a federal inquiry as ways to improve the Australian national capital's standing on the world stage.
ACT police say the human remains found near Point Hut Crossing in Canberra’s south on Sunday are likely those of missing Canberra man Tim Lyons.
A Canberra-based victim of alleged sexual assault calls for more support, after the Sexual Assault (Police) Review found the ACT had both the highest rate of sexual assault cases not proceeding to prosecution and the highest number of sexual assault victims withdrawing their complaints of any jurisdiction.