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01/10/2026

Come for the incredible light displays, stay for the awesome musical performances. NightFest is back for 2026 with its biggest iteration yet!

NightFest is finally back for 2026, with the popular springtime event expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors to…

01/10/2026

It's been a long wait but the October long weekend is almost here! Unfortunately, it's unlikely to dawn bright and sunny - that's the forecast from the BoM. Here's what else we can expect for the next few days.

Soak up the sunshine before the rain hits the ACT and southeast NSW this long weekend. That's the message from…

30/09/2026

From one of the first Canberra Tourist Association brochures extolling the virtues of The City of Glorious Panoramas .... where all the hotels, regardless of tariff, boasted "every modern convenience, including hot and cold water in the bedroom", when sporting activities included shooting rabbits, hares and foxes, and where the croquet lawn at Hotel Canberra was just for the use of ladies.

Photo: ArchivesACT

30/09/2026

There's more in Lake Burley Griffin's waters than carp.

A very special visitor has made a home in Lake Burley Griffin, but experts say its rare presence isn't unusual.…

30/09/2026

Australia was in the grip of drought in the early 1960s but, in April 1964, the rains finally came and this remarkable man-made lake, named after the designers of Canberra, Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin, filled in just six days.
This photograph was taken in 1969, a year after the National Library of Australia, which you can see in the distance, also opened for business.

Photo: National Archives of Australia.

30/09/2026

The last hint of Braddon's automotive past is also a hub for some of the city's best food trucks. Here's how that happened ...

It’s hard to think of a Canberra suburb that’s seen more change than Braddon. The once semi-industrial precinct, where 20…

29/09/2026

As the Federal Capital Territory grew, her new buildings were promoted throughout the land via the social media of that day - postcards.
This one was of the new Hotel Canberra and Albert Hall in the 1930s.

Photo: Libraries ACT.

29/09/2026

Lovers of delicious Greek cuisine are well-catered for in Canberra, as food writer Lucy Ridge explains.

Moussaka to mastika, saganaki to souvlaki, baklava to loukoumades: Greek dishes are as varied, beautiful, and numerous as the islands…

29/09/2026

When too many Canberra bendy bus photos are never enough - this one was taken in Alinga Street in 1987 ... and how different does Civic look?

Photo: National Archives of Australia.

29/09/2026

Well educated by age 9, and dead by 30, Mary Braidwood Mowle wrote her life, and many other colonial women's lives, into history.

Mary Braidwood Mowle should have, like most colonial Australian women, been forgotten to history. Arriving in Australia in 1836, age…