Peter Lusted

The independent review will first assess how the ACT has acted on previous recommendations and then offer practical measures to reduce Indigenous incarceration rates. 

Cricket ACT is pushing hard to have a Canberra team in the men's and women's Big Bash Leagues (BBL) — but what are its chances?

Andrew Dodd and daughter Nadine have spent countless hours building their 1935 Ford Coupe — an adventure that first saw the duo racing to finish the car with one hour to go before Nadine's formal.

Former national rock-climbing coach Stephen Mitchell, who is already behind bars for persistent historical sexual abuse of six girls between 1994 and 2008, is found guilty of an act of indecency against a woman in Canberra in 2010.

A female intruder who invaded the Canberra home of a former friend she believed had killed her dog, smashing furniture and attacking the victim, is sentenced to a nearly four-year intensive corrections order to be served in the community.

Two years ago, Gregory Andrews was the high commissioner to West Africa, where he was responsible for promoting Australia's mining interests. Today, he is on the lawns of Parliament House, 14 days into a hunger strike protesting the lack of government action on climate change.

Several ancient artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old vase, housed in the Australian National University's Classics Museum are found to have been stolen from Italy and will be repatriated.

The Canberra man led police on a pursuit in May last year, during which he lost the front left tyre of his car. Despite driving on three operational wheels, he reached a speed of 160 kilometres per hour.

A Canberra man accused of attempting to set fire to a police officer during an assault is handed a good behaviour order by an ACT court.

A jury found Canberra man Shay Kahu Murphy, 32, guilty of 17 charges, including three of sexual intercourse without consent and nine assault offences in relation to four former partners.

Westfield Belconnen store employee Abhishek Timalsina allegedly closed the security shutters of his workplace, encouraged a woman inside to enter a staffroom and raped her in November 2022.

An Integrity Commission hears an Education Directorate official was told: "That's not what the minister's office wants" when he revealed the winner of the Campbell Primary School refurbishment tender.

The ACT Integrity Commission hears the education minister's office allegedly held the view that the superior tenderer for a controversial Canberra school refurbishment was "not to get the job". 

Three development applications for the Hellenic Club in Woden have been approved by the ACT's Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate, with construction scheduled to begin next year.

Michael Rigo is arrested at his home, accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy 40 years ago, when Mr Rigo was an Australian rules football umpiring coach.

A gunman charged with shooting at a car with an infant inside allegedly told the driver of the vehicle, the next time "I won't f***ing miss you".

A jury has found a Canberra man guilty of murdering the "love of his life", siding with the argument of the prosecution that she fell from the bonnet of his car.

A court hears 43-year-old Michael O'Connell's former partner Danielle Jordan suffered catastrophic head injuries when she allegedly fell from the bonnet of his car.

A "veteran of brothels" convicted of raping, choking and spitting in the mouth of a sex worker at a Canberra brothel, has walked free from court after being sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court.

Naomi Lee was abused by her elite gymnastics coaches between the ages of 11 and 14. The Australian Sports Commission will now compensate her for the psychological harm she suffered.

For the first time, Canberra charities are finding full-time public servants, nurses, teachers and police officers are regularly needing their help to make ends meet.

In sentencing former national rock climbing coach Stephen Mitchell, a judge said he had abused a "gross disparity of age and power".

An ACT court hears the sexual abuse of Stephen Mitchell, a former coach of junior Australian and world champion rock climbers, has left a lasting impact on his victims.

A New South Wales man who killed another driver in a head-on collision during a 188-kilometre-per-hour police pursuit is sentenced to more than 10 years in jail.

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold called police officers investigating the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins "boofheads", Bruce Lehrmann's lawyer tells an inquiry.