The ACT will have its first “turtle crossing” road signs next month when four new signs go up on Horse Park Drive in Gungahlin. The signs will be erected near Yerrabi Pond and the Forde Wetlands, home to the eastern long-neck turtle. Roads ACT director Tony Gill said the signs were modelled after turtle crossing signs in Western Australia. They were ordered after a caller to...

Gungahlin Bulls Minor Rugby League Football Club is calling all youngsters with a passion for the game to register for the 2010 season. Registration days will be held at the Nicholls playing fields on February 13 from 10am to 3pm and ‘The G’, outside Coles, on February 20 from 10am to 3pm. Club president Shaun Hodson said registration for all junior grades would be taken,...

Gungahlin Cemetery has replaced some of its lawn with a new species of grass to see if it can save water. Staff planted a variety of couch on about 7,500sqm in December and will measure its water consumption. Canberra Cemeteries manager Hamish Home said he expected the cemetery would be able...

Weather conditions across Gungahlin during January were warmer and considerably drier than normal. Nights were mild to warm, with an average minimum of 14.8°C; up on the average of 13.6°C recorded last January and well above Gungahlin’s longer term January average of 13.9°C....

Three contracts for stage two of the Gungahlin Drive Extension, worth a combined $15.7 million, have been awarded to duplicate several key bridges. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said five of the six contracts had now been awarded, with the final one to be tendered in late 2010. “Stage two...

Wriggling and sliding down a plastic tube, 10,000 Murray Cod fingerlings took up residence in Gungahlin Pond last week. The fish were the first released in this year’s round of the government’s regular fish restocking. Mark Jekabsons, an aquatic ecologist with the Department of...

Residents of Franklin, Ngunnawal, Nicholls and Palmerston are facing the highest mortgage stress in the ACT, a new report shows. Using postcodes, Fitch Ratings has analysed the proportion of the value of securitised home loans that are at least 30 days behind in repayments. It found that...

A woman faced ACT magistrates Court on robbery, theft and attempted theft charges last week following an incident in Gungahlin last week. The woman allegedly attempted to remove money from the till at Pharmacy Select in Gungahlin Town Centre. A short time later the woman then allegedly...

Detailed information about the Gungahlin College and Harrison School was presented at the monthly Gungahlin Community Council last week. Residents were able to see detailed designs for the two public schools, which when open, will help ease the demand on enrolments in the area. The $72.4...

New traffic lights at The Valley Avenue in Gungahlin will give students and parents safer and easier access to the Burgmann Anglican School. Chief Minister Jon Stanhope said the ACT Government would invest $155,000 in the traffic lights, which would be operational by mid-September. “In...