Stalling vaccination rates among children and seniors are exacerbating a record-breaking flu season, the peak body for general practitioners says.
Ian Meikle
Ian Meikle is an owner and editor of "CityNews".
A Downer woman was taken to hospital with facial injuries after being allegedly assaulted and choked by her partner.
A Holt man allegedly threatened another driver with a handgun during a road rage incident on Morshead Drive on Saturday afternoon.
Research has shown a simple way booster shots could be made more effective while opening the door to further improvements in the next generation of vaccines.
Two teen boys have been arrested following multiple pursuits in a stolen BMW SUV through the inner north overnight. The 16-year-old driver has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs.
Police have seized four large cannabis plants, a "significant quantity" of dried cannabis, a small bag containing a white substance believed to be cocaine and about $13,000 in cash during a raid on a suspected grow house in Lyneham on Wednesday.
Australia's economic outlook is looking rosier as inflation continues to fall and following the first decline in interest rates in more than four years.
Four trucks have collided and one driver is dead following a crash on the Hume Highway, near Spring Dam Road, Coolac, 18km north of Gundagai, early on Friday.
A 34-year-old woman has been refused bail following an alleged stabbing of a man in Queanbeyan.
Four academics have analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some of them 'sanitise' history, they say.
QantasLink has retired its last Boeing 717 jet. On Saturday, QF 1511 left Sydney at 4.55pm and arrived in Canberra at 5.50pm with minimal fanfare.
Manuka, Kingston, Narrabundah and Dickson shops will be refurbished and repaved and new public toilets built at Downer shops, if the Liberals take government on October 19.
