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New data shows the average time patients spent being treated in ACT emergency departments has improved in the past financial year, but Canberra Health Services still failed to meet all but one of its emergency wait-time targets.

At first glance artists Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar seem to have little in common besides gender and career choice, but a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia is inviting visitors to take a closer look.

Speaking to Stateline, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr concedes the government should have waited several more days before rolling out a new public transport ticketing system that was plagued with problems as it went live. 

New Australian research has found that young men are identifying as Christian and seeing the benefits of organised religion at much higher rates than women of the same generation.

Speaking to Stateline, ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr concedes the government should have waited several more days before rolling out a new public transport ticketing system that was plagued with problems as it went live.

The Canberra woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was prepared to pay $20,000 for her parents to be killed and had paid $7,500 towards that goal.

The ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the ACT government discriminated against the public servant over her criminal history.

This year's Paris Games was the worst performance from the Australian rowing team at the Olympics in decades, highlighting gaps in the sport's accessibility — but a new initiative set up in Canberra is hoping to change that.

Four Canberra schools have recorded above average results in this year's NAPLAN tests of literacy and numeracy skills.

The ACT Legislative Assembly acknowledges widespread problems happening at Genius Education, which claims to run more than 30 centres across the country, including five in the ACT.

Ruby's House is a rare example of a residential service which supports young people who may otherwise fall into homelessness or couch-surfing due to family conflict.

The founder of Invisible Disabilities Australia says she was "treated appallingly" while going through security at the Canberra Airport, being wheeled into "what can only be described as a cupboard" to be pat down.

Despite a cost-of-living crisis, young people aged 25 to 29 have had the biggest take-up of private health insurance over the last year.

From their new position on the crossbench, the Greens are backing calls for the Assembly to review the controversial transport ticketing rollout.

More than a dozen staff at Genius Childcare centres in the ACT have resigned while others have taken stress leave amid allegations of ongoing pay delays.

University of Canberra interim vice-chancellor Stephen Parker, who was brought on in September to prepare a 2025 budget addressing the university's difficult financial position, has resigned from the role.

Set against the backdrop of social change in the 1970s, Carol Jerrems's photography charted the women's movement, documented First Nations activism, put a spotlight on youth subcultures, and explored the era's music and arts scenes.

National home prices are losing momentum, new data shows, and anticipated interest rate cuts are unlikely to stop falls in house prices next year.

Underwater rugby is a contact sport played at depths of 3.5 to 5 metres. But as old swimming complexes are redeveloped, deep pools are becoming harder to find. 

Underwater rugby is a full-contact sport with the aim to get the ball — which is full of salt water — into the other team's goal at the bottom of the pool.