James Tugwell

3 days ago | abc.net.au | Lily Nothling |James Tugwell

The ACT government has announced a new pedestrian crossing for Canberra Avenue after two schoolboys were hit by a car. The St Edmund's College students, who were struck by the allegedly stolen car while walking to school, survived the incident but remain injured. The proposed crossing still needs approval from the National Capital Authority to go ahead.

5 days ago | abc.net.au | James Tugwell

Watching him traversing his way up the face of the limestone cliff overlooking the Queanbeyan River, it's hard to tell that Armando Corvini has no fingers or toes. In a sport famous for requiring strong fingers and forearms, Mr Corvini has had to re-learn rock climbing after a severe accident in the Himalayas that he says divides his life into two.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | James Tugwell

Construction of a bridge connecting Canberra's sixth town centre to the rest of the territory is causing temporary road closures and traffic delays. Coppins Crossing Road in Canberra's west will be closed for the next three weeks while steel girders are lifted into place for the Molonglo River Bridge.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | James Vyver |James Tugwell

Nurses and allied health workers' lives were put at risk by a failure of safety protocols, according to the ACT's workplace safety watchdog. The ruling follows four assaults on nurses or allied health workers carrying out home visits in March. Canberra Health Services (CHS) chief executive Dave Peffer said the assaults were serious. "Serious enough to require medical assessment…we did offer occupational violence leave, and that was certainly taken up," Mr Peffer said.

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | James Tugwell

In the dense jungle of New Guinea, April 1944, a patrol of American troops with vital military intel were surrounded by enemy troops when their radios stopped working. The patrol was part of the Allied mission to reclaim Manus Island and had been sent out to investigate reports enemy troops were preparing a counterattack on the village of Drabito. They discovered Japanese troops were camped nearby preparing for a major attack.