Australian singer-songwriter and author Josh Pyke's children's book 'Family Tree' was selected for this year's National Simultaneous Storytime, and he spent the morning reading and performing for eager Canberran schoolchildren.
WorkSafe ACT implemented a strategy aiming to improve safety conditions on building sites, but say to repeat offenders in Canberra that the next step is potential prosecution.
The annual Million Paws Walk is back up and dog-walking in the ACT on Sunday 29 May, and the local RSPCA are paw-ssionately aiming to raise $100,000 to support their critical work.
Talking with CW about her latest book, The Joyful Startup Guide, Canberran businesswoman and author, Serina Bird, reflects on being unashamedly a writer for women, and the remarkable innovation within a local café.
In honour of International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, and Transphobia,. Canberra Daily’s investigative journalism skills were put to the test to find out whether Canberra is in fact Australia’s queerest city.
Breaking the Guinness World Record for the heaviest sumo deadlift in 60 seconds, Canberran woman Jessica Cameron lifted a massive 4935kg, and raised $22,000 for Integra Service Dogs.
Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or flat-out think they’re a myth, ghost stories and ‘sightings’ have perpetuated popular culture for millennia … and some of them are downright spooky. Tim the Yowie Man, took CW through his personal list the most haunted spots in Canberra.
Continued community concern around “dangerous combustible cladding” in Canberra has prompted the Strata Community Association and the Owners Corporation Network to host a public forum with the ACT Government next week.
A Canberra landlord claims they’ve been left with over $20,000 in accrued rental arrears and over $8,000 worth of damage to their rental property, saying their former tenants “lived like animals”.
Almost one in 10 Canberrans live below the poverty line, and a quarter of those are children. This grim statistic is predicted to increase even further if the next Federal Government fails to act, says the ACTCOSS.