Dining / Savouring the Locale touch
Photos by Andrew Finch THERE’S nothing more local than a restaurant called Locale, nor pizzas more authentic than those made by Italian pizzaiolos, such as the crew cooking up a storm seven nights a...
View ArticleADFAs award for young glassies
CANBERRA Glassworks is calling on all young artists 18 – 30 years to apply for the 2015 Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Young Arts Award. Detail of a glass work by previous winner Laura...
View ArticleHave you seen Eero Kivela? LOCATED
ACT Policing is seeking the public’s assistance to help locate a missing 79-year-old man from Charnwood. Eero Kivela was last seen around 1.00pm this afternoon (29 July), when he left his family home...
View ArticleUnidentified substance spilling from a Barton drain
ACT Fire & Rescue and the Environment Protection Authority are testing samples of an unidentified substance spilling from a drain in Barton. Firefighters were called to the incident at the...
View ArticleRick goes to great heights to glide
LAST weekend, thanks to winds producing a phenomenon known as atmospheric wave, glider pilots from the Canberra Gliding Club at Bunyan (near Cooma) were having a ball. While most of Canberra was being...
View ArticleActewAGL want you to keep the utility assets clear in your garden
ACTEWAGL is reminding the public that maintaining easy access to utility assets can mean the difference between waiting thirty minutes and a few hours to regain electricity and water supply to streets...
View ArticleToilet paper fire evacuates Kaleen High
Around 230 students have been evacuated from Kaleen High School in Kaleen because of a fire. ACT Fire & Rescue attended the school on Baldwin Drive around 1pm. The fire started in a toilet block...
View ArticleRSPCA happier with the latest animal cruelty sentencing
THE RSPCA ACT says that A 29 year old woman, Stacey Hawks, has been convicted and sentenced under the Animal Welfare Act for failing to provide adequate food and water for three dogs and a rabbit under...
View ArticleChildren’s Book Council of Australia’s annual book appeal underway
SHANE Rattenbury has joined Libraries ACT in launching the Children’s Book Council of Australia’s annual book appeal. “Each year the ACT Branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia runs a book...
View ArticleAnother arrest out of the Trade Union Royal Commission hearings in Canberra
THE ABC is reporting that there has been a further arrest from the hearings into trade unions and the Canberra construction industry: Tuungafasi Manase, 29, was arrested by ACT police last night just...
View ArticleReview / Eloquent dance exploration of attitudes to war
FIRST presented by Quantum Leap in 2005 to commemorate the 90th Anniversary of the Anzac landings on Gallipoli, and now revisited with an entirely new cast for the Anzac Centenary, “Reckless Valour”...
View ArticleFamous fairy-tales and other arts this weekend
OSCAR Wilde’s famous fairy tale,” The Selfish Giant”, as illustrated by Canberra artist Paul Summerfield, will be launched as an edition hand bound artist book and 20 limited edition prints, with a...
View ArticleHit and run driver wanted after school crossing collision
ACT Policing is investigating a collision between a car and a pedestrian on Starke Street, Holt. About 8.55am, police attended a collision where a car had collided with a 13-year-old boy at a school...
View ArticleSocials / At Canberra Convention Bureau’s networking night, Belconnen
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View ArticleSocials / At an exclusive wine-tasting night, Red Hill
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View ArticleBrown water warning for Kingston and Forrest
ICON Water crews will be conducting condition assessments of water mains on Cunningham Street, Kingston and Moresby Street, Forrest on Friday, 31 July 2015, which may lead to some temporary water...
View ArticleUC kicking off its billion dollar expansion plan
UNIVERSITY of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Professor Stephen Parker says UC is now able to kick start its $1 billion investment plan to develop and expand its campus following the approval of a Territory...
View ArticleLearn how to make olive oil at the Canberra Environment Centre
CHARLES de Nanteuil, of La Barre Olives, will lead a presentation at the Canberra Environment Centre on Tuesday August 18, from 6 – 8pm, demonstrating the process of making olive oil from tree to...
View Article‘Innovative approach’ for school courtyard
THE Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, the University of Canberra students and local ACT School, Torrens Primary, yesterday unveiled designs for a new play space to replace a characterless...
View ArticleNew theatre partnership for Tuggeranong
‘FORUM theatre’ is a style of interactive play-making that raise awareness of real‐life issues and discrimination, and the main exponent in Canberra is Rebus Theatre. Robin Davidson Rebus was the...
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