Police are investigating a possible hate crime at the Canberra Centre last week.

Two Indonesian Masters students were wearing head scarves when one of them was punched in the head near the bus stop near Target last Thursday evening.

The women have since returned to their families, too afraid to stay in Canberra.

Anyone with information is urged to...

Strong winds combined with dust from western NSW coated Canberra in orange.

There was a severe fire danger warning in place, followed by a health warning from breathing the dust.

At it's peak more than 6000 people were without power, with traffic lights not working and causing major delays.

This morning about 90 customers remain without power, the...

ACT Health has had another resignation.

Chief health officer Paul Kelly is the latest executive to pull the pin at the territory's public health system.

After being with the department for nearly a decade, Dr Kelly quit last month after taking up a new job with the federal health department as the chief medical advisor for Health Products Regulation...

ACT Policing is asking witnesses to a single vehicle crash on Mount Ainslie on Saturday night to come forward.

The 20-year-old sole occupant was found in a gully near his vehicle off Mount Ainslie Drive the next morning by walkers and was taken to Canberra Hospital for serious, but non life threatening injuries.

It's believed the car left the road...