“Summer in Canberra can bring sudden spikes in temperature, and even moderate heat can affect your health if you’re not prepared,” says ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Coleman.
A store employee was seriously injured after two teenage girls were confronted trying to leave a nail salon in South Point shopping centre, Greenway, without paying.
"Karma comes around," warns letter writer CLAIRE EAMES, of Holt, to thieves who have taken her husband Tom's garden sculpture – "a pretty lowdown act to steal from elderly people".
Here are today’s CityNews headlines.
Next year Anzac Day falls on Saturday, April 25, but the ACT government has confirmed the public holiday will be observed two days later on Monday, April 27.
A 23-year-old woman, who was subject to a good behaviour order, allegedly threatened a 30-year-old woman before assaulting her with a baseball bat at a residence in Turner.
Three men have been charged with resisting or assaulting police in separate incidents over the weekend.
New research says a simple swap from regular salt, which is high in sodium, to potassium-enriched salt can reduce the risk of high blood pressure (hypertension) – the leading cause of preventable death in Australia.
The man who intervened when a 38-year-old man allegedly threatened shoppers with a knife and a syringe at a retail store in Greenway earlier this year has come forward.
One person has died and another is in a critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on the Hume Highway, at Gunning, early on Sunday morning. It is the second road fatality in that area since Friday.
The ACT government is moving on planning reforms, says Planning Minister Chris Steel, announcing initially "a few simple ways we can improve and streamline some of our processes to make things easier for consumers and industry alike."
ACT members won nine awards at the Master Builders Australia National Excellence in Building and Construction Awards in Adelaide on Friday night.
