The Latest Breaking News from ACT

Days out from the event, festival goers for Canberra’s Groovin the Moo festival were told the event would no longer be offering a free drug checking service after Pill Testing Australia, which provides the testing service, had public liability insurance withdrawn, without explanation from insurers.

ACT eases restrictions for household contacts of COVID-19, leaving immunocompromised Canberrans afraid they will be forgotten in the move towards "COVID normal".

ACT Liberal senator Zed Seselja says the AFP's budget and workforce has increased over the past few years.

Hayden Todkill is set to argue he resorted to using a knife in self-defence, the ACT Magistrates Court heard on Tuesday.

From Tuesday April 26 at 11.59pm, household contact rules will be changing for people in Canberra.

The ACT reported 831 new infections in the latest reporting period.

Education Minister Yvette Berry acknowledges that tighter restrictions in public schools may frustrate families, but says teachers must be consulted.

The ACT has ditched its mandatory week-long isolation requirement for COVID-19 household contacts, joining most states in making the change.

Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination was introduced by ACT Health in October, covering staff who are in contact with children in schools.

The figures will give fresh confidence a change to quarantine requirements this week will not significantly increase the number of COVID-19 cases in the community.

More than 3000 applicants are on the ACT's public housing waitlist.