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City businesses call for lifeline as light rail shock hits home

1 day ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

Mezzalira’s Pasquale Trimboli thought he had seen it all in his three decades in City West, but now he’s not sure if the iconic Italian restaurant will survive the next few years as the light rail project gathers pace. Businesses along and near the Stage 2A route were prepared for disruption, but trade has fallen off a cliff since the start of construction in February and the ACT Government’s promises of support have come to naught.
Newlyne display at Yowani offers a new home experience like no other

1 day ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

That’s not a property display centre. This is a display centre. Canberra-based property developer TP Dynamics has spent $5 million on its Newlyne Experience Centre in Lyneham, opening today to showcase its upcoming residential and retirement developments in partnership with the Yowani Country Club. The masterplanned Newlyne residential and commercial precinct, designed around a 10,000 sqm central park, will be developed on club land in three stages over the next eight to 10 years.
Innovative cohousing project to submit tender for Watson block

3 days ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

An innovative cohousing development pitched for a public site in Watson as part of the ACT Government’s Demonstration Housing Project has been invited to submit a tender for the land. It’s been a slow train coming for Canberra Cohousing, which formed in 2018. In May 2023, it secured an architect, AMC Architecture, and a tender was expected last June, but the invitation was only issued in January. The group now has until 11 June to submit its tender.
Special Mass for Pope Francis at St Christopher's, Archbishop pays tribute

3 days ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

Canberrans can gather to pay their respects and pray for the late Pope Francis at a Memorial Mass to be celebrated at 6 pm this evening at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Manuka. Pope Francis (1936-2025) died on Easter Monday at the age of 88. The faithful gathered today at noon at the Cathedral to pray the Angelus Prayer for him with the leader of the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Archbishop Christopher Prowse.
There's no walking away from the benefits of exercise, no matter your age (or excuse)

4 days ago | region.com.au | Jen White

My neighbours are putting me to shame. It’s not because of their beautiful, colourful, healthy, weed-free gardens, or the veggie patches that would be the envy of any hatted chef. Admittedly, I do cringe when I compare my dying pot(s) of parsley to the bountiful produce they happily share. I don’t know what it is about parsley that I can’t get right. Shove it in a pot and water it – that can’t be too difficult.
Like a hydroponic garden: New Belconnen wetland's secret weapon to keep lake clean

5 days ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

The first man-made wetland of its kind in Australia has been completed in Belconnen and is ready to do its work of filtering stormwater before it flows into Lake Ginninderra. The $4 million Belconnen Oval Wetland off Renny Place is also a new recreation area and wildlife haven. The amount of infrastructure to be installed is still to be decided, reflecting community differences on how natural the surrounding space should be.
Opening night world premiere to leap off festival stage, says soloist

6 days ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

This year’s Canberra International Music Festival will start with a bang as a new Australian work makes its world premiere at the opening concert on 30 April. The opening night at the Snow Concert Hall will be an all-strings affair called Fantasia, and the work is a violin concerto – Violin Concerto Sinfonia Sacra. Four Portraits of the Blessed Virgin – conceived by one of Australia’s most renowned composers, Richard Mills.
Soak up the sunshine in a high-end home just minutes from Tathra Beach

6 days ago | region.com.au | Morgan Kenyon

How would you like to wake up and start each day with an uninterrupted view of the ocean? Standing on a beautifully landscaped block just five minutes from the beach, 14 Francis Hollis Drive in Tathra is a premier home in an unbeatable location. Number 14 is a prime example of coastal chic. With four bedrooms and three bathrooms across two levels, plus an under-house workshop, there’s more than enough room for the whole family and their hobbies.
National Folk Festival on song as fans flock to EPIC

1 week ago | region.com.au | Ian Bushnell

The National Folk Festival is looking forward to being back in the black with strong tickets sales, a tight budget and glorious autumn weather greeting music lovers from across the country. The festival got under way proper on Good Friday at Exhibition Park with a full day’s events after Thursday night’s opening concert.
The transformative vision of Thom Roberts celebrated in a captivating exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

1 week ago | region.com.au | Sasha Grishin

Thom Roberts is an artist who has to transform the world around him into his own terms to make sense of it. He then proceeds to paint this transformed world. On encountering people, trains, buildings or cities, he has to give each of them his own nickname and then endows them with peculiar conceptual and visual attributes. For example, Shame Simpson is a high-profile, Sydney-based, art-loving lawyer who is on the board of many cultural institutions.