Canberra

A 43-year-old woman has been charged after allegedly running onto the tarmac and under a plane at Canberra Airport on Wednesday evening (1 November).

Footage shared to social media shows the woman – wearing black pants, slippers and a jacket – approaching the front wheel and cockpit of a QantasLink plane and trying to get the pilot’s attention.

The plane was reportedly bound for Adelaide, and witnesses claim the woman was trying to get the pilot to let her board.

They’ve been a peak Canberra experience for decades, but the paddle boats on Lake Burley Griffin have finally paddled their last.

The National Capital Authority (NCA) has announced the boats have “reached the end of their operational life and have been discontinued”.

The first of four Australian-made electric buses ordered for the Transport Canberra fleet has arrived in the ACT and is about to hit the road.

The new Custom Denning ‘Element’ low-floor battery electric bus (BEB) was on show today at the Belconnen Depot where the four will be based and two chargers have been installed.

Next time you visit your local shops or take a stroll through a park in Canberra, you may just happen across a book sitting on a bench.

It may look lost, but it's actually just waiting to be found and read.

Each week, award-winning author and playwright Maura Pierlot visits a different Canberra suburb and leaves books on the benches she walks past.

Wakefield Park raceway was closed last August after a court limited race days to four per month.

It's estimated the track contributed almost $17 million annually to the Goulburn economy.

It was sold in March and the new owners have plans to reopen the track by the end of the year.

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Four people have been injured after a miniature steam-engine train derailed in Canberra on Thursday morning.

ACT police said the injured people were taken to hospital after the derailment occurred at Cockington Green Gardens about 10am.

ACT residents are the most concerned in the country about being impacted by bushfires this season, yet they are the least likely to have taken steps to prepare, according to the latest NRMA Insurance claims data.

While 74 per cent of ACT residents are concerned about being affected by bushfires or grassfires this spring and summer, 32 per cent said they would know what to do if a bushfire threatened their home and only 20 per cent had taken steps to prepare and protect their homes over the past six months.

The Women's Legal Centre ACT and Victims Support ACT will deliver the service together.

It will provide specialised legal advice for complainants navigating the criminal justice system.

Advocates say recent years in the ACT have been difficult for people who have experienced sexual violence.

Wing – a subsidiary of a subsidiary of Google’s parent company, Alphabet – quietly ceased flying convenience items such as food, coffee and pharmacy items to Gungahlin suburbs at the end of August.

Wing’s Australian spokesperson Jesse Suskin told ABC radio that the company had decided to move away from leasing and running its own merchant-stocked warehouses to flying from large shopping centres in densely populated areas, such as south-east Queensland.