Australian Capital Territory

An Australian aviation startup on a mission to decarbonise air travel is developing a battery that could power a small aircraft to travel 1,000 km using hydrogen, and it already has a customer.

Koolyn Briggs is training to run the New York Marathon. But his lifestyle hasn't always been this healthy. Just eight years ago the Melbourne electrician weighed 130 kilograms, didn't exercise or eat healthy, and drank too much alcohol. 

Across Australia there's angst about youth crime, but what do the kids involved think about it? Reporter Erin Parke travelled to the desert to see first hand the hard work and emotional moments involved with trying to "divert" vulnerable kids away from bad behaviour.

A spy for one of the most feared and powerful arms of China’s intelligence apparatus is revealing his identity and operations overseas, including in Australia, as part of a Four Corners investigation.

The Earth has seen its biggest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years, creating spectacular auroras across the globe. And the Bureau of Meteorology says the southern lights should be visible again tonight. 

House prices have dropped in the ACT over the last two years but there are recent signs they're starting to turn.

A majority of artists that were part of the cancelled regional festival have not rescheduled playing in Australia this year, adding to the dwindling Australian music festival business. 

The ACT Supreme Court heard from a pre-sentence report about the man, who cannot be named as he was 17 when the crime was committed.

Zheming Zhang was granted conditional bail in the ACT Magistrates Court following his arrest last week after allegedly extracting $400,000 from international student.

Federal Court Justice Michael Lee on Friday ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay costs of a higher order than typically seen in defamation cases, but also declared there were "no real winners" in the multi-million-dollar legal battle. 

The Federal Court has ordered Bruce Lehrmann to pay Network Ten's costs in defending his failed defamation case over an interview with Brittany Higgins on The Project.

The ANU has promised to take swift action if an investigation finds Nazi gestures were used at an online students' association meeting this week.

Bruce Lehrmann is likely to be left millions of dollars in debt as he gets the bill today for his failed defamation action against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson.

The government has committed to improving the facility in Canberra after a review earlier this year found the AIS should stay in the capital.

Air transport safety authorities say three different people missed a crucial safety step that led to a propeller strap puncturing the side of a plane.

ACT police say the 29-year-old man threatened multiple people before a police chase ensued, while a witness says he was arrested with "guns drawn".

Labor backbenchers say they were caught off guard by the government's new gas policy, which the resources minister says will keep the fossil fuel in Australia's energy mix until 2050 "and beyond".

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau calls for vigilance, publishing a report into an incident in which a strap was left on the propeller of a plane that took off from Canberra Airport, damaging the aircraft and injuring a passenger, in 2022.

From Hilde, with Love is the opening night film for the German Film Festival, bringing a moving story about love, resistance and family during fascism to Australian audiences.

As social media algorithms push misogynistic content to teenage boys, other men are trying to model a healthier version of masculinity.

Ransomware outfit LockBit once offered a million-dollar bounty for anyone who could 'doxx' its leader.  Now governments including Australia's have obliged.

If you paid off your student loan within the past year, you could be entitled to a juicy little tax return.

The Federal Court has heard the former Liberal staffer and his legal team made an agreement he would not be charged if they lost the case.

Australia may have just shivered through the coldest April in almost 10 years, but the rest of the world continued to break heat records for the 11th month in a row. 

The former premier tells the National Press Club the current GST system "is no longer fit for purpose", and a new system based on state populations should be implemented.