THE local craft beer scene has launched this year’s Canberra Beer Week program. Now in its fourth year, the event has grown from seven to ten days to accommodate nearly 40 events held across the […]
ON Sunday 23rd October 2016 the Southside Farmers Market will be hosting a birthday party to celebrate 10 years of providing fresh produce to our customers. Originally opened for trade in October 2006 by Canberra […]
“CITYNEWS” readers may not have been familiar with the Dutch spelling of the word ‘Boemerang’ but that all changed yesterday when Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop and new Dutch Ambassador Erica Schouten launched a […]
IT’S A dog eat dog world out there, but performance artist David Capra and his faithful dachshund Teena are about to make it just a little bit happier for Canberrans and their four-legged friends. In […]
AQUIS Entertainment CEO Jessica Mellor says only one in five Canberrans oppose the proposed new integrated city entertainment precinct despite a vicious fear campaign by the clubs lobby group, a robust research study has revealed. […]
CONCERNED Members of the ACT Arts Community have drawn “CityNews’” attention to a very strange advertisement by the University of Canberra on our city’s buses. There doesn’t seem to be any need to dignify this […]
THE Australian edition of the world’s most popular board game, Monopoly, is about to undergo a face lift and Canberrans are being given a chance to shape history and decide what will go on the […]
MERE days before the show was planned, organisers of the Braddon Block Party have pulled the plug and postponed the event. The Lonsdale Street Project has posted this explanation to Facebook:
CHAIR of the ACT Heritage Council David Flannery says a locomotive train custom-built associated with the early development of Canberra, the remains of an early settler home, grinding grooves in Latham and a rare account […]
ONE OF Canberra’s biggest arts success stories is faced with a race against time to keep going. Since its inception in 2002, ‘Kulture Break’ has become a major community service provider in combatting youth issues […]
THE IKEA Mobile Catalogue will arrive at Garema Place on 7 October 2016 at 10am and Canberrans are invited to get a taste of the new IKEA Catalogue and app, dished up with a serve […]
ONE OF Canberra’s most influential givers has been honoured in a ceremony at Bowen Park. Friends and colleagues of the Brassey Hotel’s sales and marketing director Markus Gibson-Huck attended a ceremony where Speaker of the […]
Photos from Fashfest catwalk, night 2, by HOLLY WILLIAMS
Photos by Holly Williams.
THE FRIENDS of Black Mountain are suggesting you celebrate spring on beautiful Black Mountain with a popular social ramble for wildflower lovers. On the walk you can discover the surprising diversity of tiny orchids, bush […]
“THE Sandakan Death March remains the greatest single atrocity committed against Australians in war,” Australian War Memorial director Dr Brendan Nelson said yesterday at an official handover of rare personal documents from Richard Braithwaite, one […]
THE TULIP certainly originated from Turkey and Iran, presented to the West by Suleyman the Magnificent, but there can be no doubt that in most people’s minds it is Dutch, through and through. Now, to […]
HIGH-end fashion show, Fashfest, is set to roll out the red carpet for its fourth year, having moved from chilly May to early spring to enable designers to launch spring/summer collections in time for the […]
THE sad news reaches us that the Canberra Zombie Walk has been cancelled. Organisers made a post to facebook: H all, We have some very unfortunate news. The 2016 Canberra Zombie Walk, set for 29 […]
ON FRIDAY over 500 people united together on Raiders Belconnen oval to show support for Canberra’s community clubs. President of ClubsACT Max Mercer said sporting organisations, community and cultural groups, club staff, directors and members […]
POLICE have slapped five infringement notices on a man caught on Hindmarsh Drive, Phillip, driving with four children not wearing seat belts. The fines totalled $2056 and 12 demerit points. About 4.45pm yesterday (February 26), police stopped a […]
AS a teenager, Menslink helped Josh Turk through, what he calls, “your not-so-typical teenage issues”, so later on in life it was fitting he took on a role as mentor to give someone the help […]
THE ACT government says its providing Canberra children, aged between six months and five years, a free influenza vaccination this winter. Minister for Health and Wellbeing Meegan Fitzharris says they’ll be available from any of […]
ALL Libraries ACT branches and the ACT Heritage Library will be closed Wednesday, February 28, for the annual Libraries ACT Planning and Development Day. Director of Libraries ACT Vanessa Little says the Annual Planning and […]
ONE man’s disaster is another man’s serendipity. If Barnaby Joyce hadn’t fallen spectacularly, Michael McCormack, 53, the new deputy prime minister, would likely never have become the Nationals’ leader. In the normal course of events, […]
