Australian Capital Territory

ACT police investigate a fire that destroyed a residential unit in Waramanga and caused smoke damage to a neighbouring unit.

Senior Coalition Minister Christopher Pyne says the Government has no "absolutely no desire or intention" to increase taxes to help pay for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS).

A Canberra wildlife protection group needs more volunteers to help with a new wombat-mange treatment trial.

A mange-infested wombat in the ACT tries desperately to cure his itching.

Lord Sebastian Coe, president of the IAAF, executive chairman of CSM Sport and Entertainment, and chairman of the British Olympic Association addresses the National Press Club in Canberra.

Carparks may not be the most appealing of places, although those familiar with one in Canberra might beg to differ.

A Canberra man who made a daring escape from Canberra's prison last year and got his girlfriend pregnant during the eight days on the run is sentenced to 15 months' jail.

A Canberra father who allegedly rammed a parked car outside his children's school is charged with high-range drink driving, with police saying he blew more than three times the legal blood alcohol limit.

Retired Wallaby Andrew Walker puts his hand up to come out of retirement to play for the injury-hit Brumbies if they want him.

Dementia is set to cost Australia an estimated $18 billion a year by 2025, as Alzheimer's Australia calls for a national strategy to combat the disease.

Ongoing job cuts in Airservices Australia leave the network at "breaking point" and senior managers express fears the new regime is "a huge risk to public safety", an ABC investigation reveals.

A RSL club faces an extraordinary attack from Bec Cody over toilet wall tiles which depict Indigenous men — criticism the club says is "ridiculous" and "out of order".

Photos of Berlin from the early 1990s document a space created by stateless workers where the wall once stood.

The Federal Opposition is drafting Murray-Darling Basin Plan amendments, to guarantee delivery an extra 450 gigalitres of water for the environment.

Following the Bourke Street tragedy, the Canberra Liberals warn the ACT should also urgently rethink its approach to granting bail.

Farmers want to rein in electricity prices, saying their supply has become more unreliable as it has become more expensive.

Canberra filmmaker Cecilia Rumore wins the 2017 Tropfest People's Choice Award for her short documentary about a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor.

This year's Anzac rugby league Test between Australia and New Zealand will be held in Canberra — and it is hoped new direct flights between the ACT and Wellington will mean bumper crowd figures for the game.

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and a string of federal Nationals MPs are criticising the West Australian Liberals preference deal with One Nation — warning the agreement could cost them power in the state election.

When you think of Canberra, it's unlikely the ocean springs to mind.

The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says today's extreme weather conditions have never been seen before, and fears the situation could trigger uncontrollable, deadly bushfires.

Almost anywhere you go in Canberra you will see cranes dotting the skyline, building the city's next hulking apartment towers. But is an oversupply likely, and is that a bad thing?

People who live in bushland areas with catastrophic fire conditions are told to leave their homes, as the NSW RFS issues emergency warnings for fires at Leadville near Dunedoo and Lower Pappinbarra, 50km west of Port Macquarie.

New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT swelter in a heatwave, while southern Western Australia braced for more rain and flooding.

A woman and a man are shot in Gordon home in Canberra's south overnight, after two men entered the home about 9:30pm.