The ACT Government voided the registration of a driving instructor in Canberra earlier this year due to inappropriate behaviour, it is revealed, as the industry faces another allegation of sexual harassment.

The man who murdered Tara Costigan in 2015 has at least three months added to his sentence after pleading guilty to bashing other prisoners in Canberra's jail.

Billy Willox thought he was being a good Samaritan when he went to check on a joey in the pouch of an injured kangaroo by the roadside. That's when mum woke up and attacked.

The ACT branch of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Foundation says another nurse has been assaulted, this time in the adult mental health unit at Canberra Hospital.

A preliminary coroner's report reveals the two children who were found dead in a burned-out house in Bonner in February probably died before the fire, but their mother was likely killed by the blaze.

The defence team for David Eastman questions a man who was an informant for murdered senior AFP officer Colin Winchester shortly before his death in 1989.

Police charge a man with indecent exposure after an incident where he allegedly approached a child in Canberra's south on Tuesday morning, the latest in a string of 18 child approaches across the city.

The head of the internationally-renowned Bendigo Art Gallery has been appointed as the new director of the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.

Former ACT opposition leader Bill Stefaniak says the woman who pleaded guilty to causing a car crash that killed his son has made no attempt to apologise to his family.

A teacher found the student attempting suicide on school grounds after walking out of class during a NAPLAN test several years ago, Canberra principal Shane Gorman told the inquiry.

A former police informant has told the David Eastman trial he was made a sort of unofficial officer and given a gun during an operation targeting the mafia run by murdered AFP assistant commissioner Colin Winchester.

Free AFL Grand Final tickets, Virgin lounge memberships, a dinner at a high-end Sydney eatery and Ed Sheeran tickets are just some of the perks our politicians have accepted, part of a rising "money problem" in Australian politics, a report finds.

A Canberra government worker is fired for looking up hundreds of pornographic images and websites over several months, sometimes for hours at a time — a leading cyber expert says it exposes a weak security system.

Seeing kangaroos on and around Canberra roads is nothing new, but cyclists are particularly exposed this year, thanks to increasingly dry weather.

Hilary Talbot is forced back to the drawing board every time a government cuts the strings on its prime minister.

The Australian Medical Associations raises concerns that not enough is being done to ensure confidentiality in a systemic review of ACT Health.

A Canberra man serving 30 years in jail for stabbing his wife to death as she fed their young baby loses his bid to change his plea to guilty, in order to get a shorter sentence.

The peak education body says the ACT's public school system could have been forced to shoulder half of the territory's Catholic school students had the Federal Government not thrown a lifeline.

The woman in charge of an ANU class attacked by Alex Ophel last year says she may not be alive if not for a yellow notebook that she bought the day before.

A Government review has found the ACT's consumption of plastic bags will hit pre-ban levels within the next few years if tougher action on plastic bag use is not taken.

A bipartisan Legislative Assembly committee urges the Government to ditch a change to rates for unit owners because it is "an inelegant response" to the problem of disparity between ratepayers.

The Greens senator is set to release her new book En Garde as a "call to action" for women, as her defamation case against Liberal Democrat senator David Leyonhjelm begins.

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