Today France votes in the first round of what has been one of the most contentious elections in its recent history, but many French expatriates in Australia are relieved not to be involved.
Australian rugby has little to cheer about in 2017 and the pain felt by fans has intensified after New South Wales and the Brumbies both posted humiliating defeats on Friday night.
A controversial theory that a mysterious species known as hobbits were closely linked to modern humans is ruled out by Australian scientists, who say the species could be older than first thought.
A group of Canberra's school cleaners are expected to receive thousands of dollars in back pay after winning a fight against their employer in the Federal Court.
Manly beats Canberra in golden point and Brisbane edges South Sydney by a field goal. Check out our commentary and stats in our Friday NRL ScoreCentre.
A "desperate" thief is tackled in front of hundreds of shoppers after using a sledgehammer to steal gold necklaces from a jewellery store in Canberra's south.
The Australian Netball Players' Association says this weekend's Super Netball matches will go ahead after players received assurances that their pay deals would remain intact.
Australia would have experienced a considerable worker shortage during the mining boom had it not been for foreign workers on 457 visas, writes Andrew Probyn.
A Canberra Islamic school has been stripped of funding by the Federal Government, which had "no choice" but to act over financial management and governance concerns, according to the Education Minister.
One of the ACT's rarest birds of prey, the little eagle, surprises researchers by travelling more than 3,000 kilometres to visit a small town in the Northern Territory.
The Federal Government's latest decentralisation push fuelled by Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce's National Party is a "thoroughly bad idea", according to independent think tank the Grattan Institute.
The Government's latest push to move public service jobs to regional Australia won't disrupt the ACT's growth, which can't be stopped "with a big stick", according to Deputy Prime Minister and Member for New England Barnaby Joyce.
A study into why long-life milk goes off could hold the key to better understanding — and perhaps preventing — age-related diseases in humans, like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and type 2 diabetes.
"It's no secret the agency is changing — and that doesn't have to be a bad thing" — that's one of many official talking points handed to public servants who are seemingly scared to speak freely about their department's relocation to Armidale.
An Australian War Memorial staffer is sent undercover to an auction to bid on the gravestones of two decorated Australian soldiers, who died during the Cowra break-out in 1944, which were to be dumped after being replaced.
A Canberra man who was prosecuted over a Christmas drink that breached his bail conditions secures more than $30,000 in damages under the Human Rights Act.
