ACT

The Canberra couple were awarded $1,500 in non-economic damages after a real estate agent entered their bedroom while the wife was in bed asleep with her infant son.

Leith Dawes takes the office of the ACT's Work Health and Safety Commissioner to the Federal Circuit Court, alleging a breach of general workplace protections.

Parents and former educators at Guardian Childcare and Education in Canberra tell the ABC about instances where children were forgotten outside, served mouldy bread and spoiled food, narrowly escaped anaphylactic reactions, and returned home in soiled nappies.

Four years after it closed for refurbishment, the AIS Arena will soon reopen having received a $15 million federally funded facelift.

Labor frontbencher Anne Aly shows off her hand-made ball gown for the Midwinter Ball.

Police say the teenager stomped on the windscreen of a car as he left the scene of the alleged home invasion in Canberra.

Residents across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania woke up to freezing temperatures and frost this morning. The conditions have sent weather records tumbling across suburbs and towns across southern Australia.  

Grassroots Labor members are warning the government it could face a backlash at the next election unless it strengthens its position on the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The man who stole international tennis star Nick Kyrgios's green Tesla at gunpoint has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail.

The man who stole international tennis star Nick Kyrgios's green Tesla from the player's mother at gunpoint is sentenced to four-and-a-half years' jail in the ACT Supreme Court.

Tuck was sitting in the pool area of his own apartment complex when police arrested him, believing he was trespassing. He says it wouldn't have happened had it not been for his physical appearance.

Jaryn Timosevski is sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court after pleading guilty to three counts of rape and one act of indecency, after the girl reported the abuse to police. 

The ‘Outsmart the Offender’ campaign urges Canberrans to protect themselves and their belongings from opportunistic criminals.

With a new crime prevention program launching in Canberra, Georgia Wilson says she believes police must also take preventative action alongside residents.

Canberrans are being urged to do their part to tackle home break-ins and car thefts, as part of a revamped crime prevention campaign.

The Labor senator has been suspended from attending caucus meetings after breaking party rules, and she claims she's being pressured to resign.

Lawyers for Jude Wijesinghe, who allegedly stabbed his co-worker Tshewang Choden to death at the National Zoo and Aquarium, asked to delay court proceedings, but that request was rejected by the court.

Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has written about the lives of famous women including Julia Gillard and Germaine Greer. But what's driving her to tell these stories?  

Memorial sites along Canberra's Anzac Parade near the Australian War Memorial are graffitied with comments relating to the ongoing conflict in Gaza.

Paralympic swimmer Jasmine Greenwood's life changed forever as a six-year-old after acquiring a brain injury.

A childhood brain injury left Jasmine Greenwood with left-side weakness and a tremor in her left hand and leg, now at 19 she's made the Australian Paralympic Swimming Team for a second time ahead of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.

Justice Michael Lee hoped to rule "quick and dirty" on costs in the Bruce Lehrmann case last week, to save everybody's money. But the truth is there's been nothing quick about it, and it is far from over — especially with an appeal looming.

With the average critical ambulance response time taking close to 17 minutes, there are calls for publicly available defibrillators to be in every ACT shopping complex.

Celebrated 19th-century Post-Impressionist French painter and sculptor Paul Gauguin is one of the world's most famous artists, but his works have been cast in a new light ever since troubling allegations of sex crimes emerged.

There's more bill pain underway for households, but it's businesses that will bear the brunt of the latest gas crisis rippling through Australia's south-eastern states in the dead of winter.