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A newborn boy found at a Canberra fire station last November is healthy and thriving with loving foster carers. Officials are reaching out with compassion to his birth family, seeking information to help shape his beautiful future.
Green and golden bell frogs are hopping back into Australian wetlands after vanishing in 1981, thanks to scientists who built 180 heated shelters that protect them from a deadly fungus. Over 300 captive-bred frogs are getting a second chance at wild life around Canberra.
A world-first project in Canberra is using tiny heated greenhouses and saltwater pools to help frogs fight off a deadly fungus that's wiped out 500 species worldwide. If it works, this simple solution could save amphibians across the globe.
Cameron Myers just became the youngest person ever to win one of track's most prestigious indoor races. The Canberra teenager outran defending champions and Olympic medalists to make history in New York.
After years of community campaigning, Australia's capital territory has promised to build a new 50-meter outdoor pool in Woden by 2028. The announcement is part of a broader aquatic strategy to modernize Canberra's aging pool facilities.
Australians will soon get 10 cents back for every wine and spirit bottle they recycle, expanding a program that's already saved 440 million containers from landfill. The change arrives mid-2027 and could divert an extra 13 million bottles from waste each year.