Katie Burgess

ACT arts minister adds $248,000 in funding after industry outcry

ACT arts minister Gordon Ramsay will nearly double the arts projects spending for 2017.

Childcare workers in Canberra are still the nation's most unqualified.

ACT childcare workers still least qualified in Australia: Productivity Commission

Canberra families still aren't getting bang for their buck on childcare.

The solar panels at Williamsdale form the southern stretch of the ACT's 'solar highway'.

Check out Canberra's first 'solar highway'

Fifty kilometres of road. Four solar farms. 174,340 photovoltaic panels.

A lane-filtering trial was launched in Canberra in 2015.

Canberra's two-year motorcycle lane filtering trial to be extended

Canberra motorcyclists will be allowed to keep lane filtering past this month until an evaluation of its two-year trial is completed

Simon Maddox, Owner of Beyond Q bookshop, at Curtin. Simon's business will be affected by the proposed redevelopment of ...

Curtin developers deny 'hardball' tactics in threat to hoard up shops

The owners of a 50-year-old block of shops in Curtin Square will hoard up the building "indefinitely" if an application to redevelop it into a six-storey mixed use building is denied.

Former Liberal MLA, Brendan Smyth, was last year appointed to the role of Commissioner for International Engagement by ...

Smyth hired partner of public servant who created his new office

ACT's Commissioner for International Engagement Brendan Smyth said the ACT Public Service's strict HR protocols were followed "to a tee".

Architectural projections light up the Parliamentary Triangle for the Enlighten Festival in Canberra.

Enlighten scraps maligned mentorship program that paid artists with 'exposure'

Enlighten has scrapped an unpaid mentorship program that drew criticism from the Canberra arts community last year, instead relying on contractors to create the artworks that will light up the city's most iconic buildings.

Demolition equipment was parked outside the Mr Fluffy home on Lumeah Street in Narrabundah last Friday.

Developer failed to disclose presence of loose-fill asbestos in plans to knock down Mr Fluffy house

A builder who lodged an application to redevelop a Narrabundah house failed to disclose the property contained loose-fill asbestos despite learning it was a Mr Fluffy house upon sale, it can be revealed.

MyWay data from light rail will be able to be used in criminal investigations

The Australian Federal Police will be able to track the movement of suspects on Canberra's light rail system without a warrant in the same way investigators currently do with ACT buses.

The number of nights ACT juvenile offenders spent in custody has fallen drastically in the past few years.

Number of nights in custody plunges for juvenile offenders in the ACT

The number of nights juvenile offenders spent in detention has declined by almost two-thirds since a damning Human Rights Commission review of the ACT youth justice system more than five years ago.

Katie Burgess

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