CANBERRA’S drug users are paying more for cocaine than the rest of the country, according to new figures from the Australian Crime Commission. The Commission’s Illicit Drug Data Report revealed in 2011–12 the ACT and the Nothern Territory recorded the highest street price for cocaine, with users willing to pay up to $500 for one [...]
A POLICE officer has been hospitalised after a man who broke into a woman’s home struck him with a log while resisting arrest early this morning. After receiving reports of multiple burglaries in the inner south last night and early this morning, police were called to an apartment in Kingston at about 4.47am, where a woman had woken [...]
A WOMAN was accosted and robbed after withdrawing money from a Commonwealth Bank in Manuka last night. Around 6.35pm a woman had withdrawn money from the Commonwealth Bank ATM on Bougainville Street when she was accosted by a man who snatched her purse and ran to a car parked nearby. Two men are suspected to [...]
YOUTHCARE Canberra disappeared from the website of Communities@Work, its contracted service provider of two years, in recent times giving rise to a belief that the small social-work charity, funded locally by donations for more than 25 years, had been closed. Not so, it is alive, well and now independent of Communities@Work, according to its secretary David Kimmorley. “CityNews” reported on [...]
VETERAN illustrative photographer, David Paterson from Turner, has been named overall winner at the 2013 ACT AIPP [Australian Institute of Professional Photographers] EPSON Professional Photography Awards. Paterson was honoured for a suite of images and was also named 2013 AIPP ACT EPSON Illustrative & Travel Photographer of the Year. “The interest in the AIPP Epson [...]
