Latest news: Community sport

Independents say many areas lack sports facilities, and people in every electorate struggle to access facilities and programs.

Canberra has a great love-affair with cycling, lycra and electric scooters but, unsurprisingly, the sport responsible for the most hospitalisations in Australia in 2021-22 involved wheels. Cycling caused about 8,600 reported injury hospitalisations...

Manuka Oval has come a long way since it was an open grassy field - Blandfordia Recreation Reserve (an exciting name) - beside Spring Creek in 1924, but today it’s all grown up...

You’ve probably heard of science in the pub but how about birds and blues, a monthly piano session with local musician and CSIRO scientist of 18 years, Dr Leo Joseph. To clarify, this...

Victor the Viking is celebrating his 40th year as the Raiders’ mascot but he didn’t want to make a fuss - so Queanbeyan’s Mayor and the people’s pub – Hotel Queanbeyan –...

The Canberra Fisherman's Club is embracing nature, watching out for our local waterways and enjoying the relaxing past time.

A few decades ago, on the streets of St Kilda, a young man popped up with an alternative to what was being offered to those seeking solace from the ‘dark side’. 

Community sporting clubs across the ACT have the chance to win up to $2,000 with nominations now open for this year's Alcohol and Drug Foundation Good Sports Awards.  

Eighteen months later, Greens MLA Johnathan Davis says the ACT Government has not delivered on its suite of sport policy commitments.

COVID-19 restrictions on organised sport from March 2020 resulted in a drop in injuries and hospitalisations for winter sports.

Record registration numbers has seen the local Canberra Region Rugby League (CRRL) become the fourth largest region in NSW.

An indoor rowing program for detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) was announced as a 2021 CBR Sport Awards Finalist.

For more than 50 years, all over the country, Saturday mornings through summer have become synonymous with the sounds of the starting gun and excited children, and the sights of kids jumping into sandpits, over hurdles and high jump bars, and throwing objects. That’s the sounds and sights of Little Athletics! 

The Woden Valley Community Council wants the ACT Government to build a multi-purpose indoor sports stadium in the Woden Town Centre.

A state-of-the-art indoor sport facility as part of UC Sports Hub 2 heads up the University of Canberra’s new Sport Strategy.

Basketball and badminton are some of the fastest-growing sports in the ACT, but associations say there is not enough room to expand.