Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a top of 15 today after the morning fog clears, with a slight chance of a shower. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Millennials in the ACT rushed to book in for their AstraZeneca vaccination on Tuesday, following the national cabinet's decision to provide insurance to general practitioners who choose to provide them.
All staff at aged care homes will need to be vaccinated as a condition of their employment after national cabinet finally agreed to the new rules on Monday.
Subscriber: The long-awaited expansion of Canberra Hospital has taken another step forward, with the demolition of key buildings set to begin in the coming weeks.
Subscriber: Teachers and administrative staff do not have enough space to effectively run the Garran Primary School with the ageing site struggling to cope with the number of students enrolled, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Trees planted nearly a century ago at the Australian War Memorial have faced the axe to make way for a controversial $500 million expansion despite months of protests from advocacy and heritage groups.
Subscriber:The long-term climb in cocaine consumption in Canberra levelled off in the most recent wastewater drug survey, although on a per capita basis the territory remains among the nation's highest consumers of oxycodone.
Subscriber: A white supremacist who rampaged around Canberra Hospital with a hammer and threatened to rip off a staff member's head has been granted bail.
Subscriber | Opinion:With higher rates of vaccination, Australia's current Covid outbreaks may have been more easily managed. Sydney, Perth, Darwin and now Brisbane are all in lockdown, and Victoria just left one, writes Stephen Duckett.
