The desperate need for child care in Gungahlin has been highlighted by parents requesting to go on a waiting list within hours of a site being sold for a new centre. Not-for-profit community organisation Northside Community Service purchased the Harrison child care site in an auction conducted by the Land Development Agency last week. Chief executive officer of Northside Community service...

Weather conditions across Gungahlin during June were mixed, but on the whole they were slightly warmer and drier than average. Nights were cool to cold, with an average minimum of 3.6°C; down on the very mild 4.9°C recorded last June, but still well above the longer term June average of 2.0°C. The warmest night for the month occurred on June 3, when the temperature was a mild...

Weather conditions across Gungahlin during May were dominated by cloudy skies, mild temperatures and little to no rain. Nights were cool, with an average minimum of 4.7°C; up on last May’s average of 3.5°C. The warmest night for the month occurred on May 23, when the temperature...

If you can’t remember it being this cold in Gungahlin for a while your not imagining things, as Gungahlin shivered through its coldest day since the Gungahlin Weather Station opened in January 1998. The maximum temperature on 12 June 2009 was just 2.6°C (recorded at 3.17pm), beating...

It was looking promising that the residents of Gungahlin and much of the local region, would wake to a 'winter wonderland' scene, with a thin layer of snow covering the parks and gardens on 10 June, 2009. The chance of snow had everyone talking, and hundreds of people logged on the the...

There will be more land available for residents wanting to build their own house thanks to the release of land in the ACT’s newest suburb and the ACT Government will celebrate the housing development today. The new suburb in Gungahlin, Casey, will house about 700 families. The suburb...

Located east of Gundaroo Road and to the south of Burgmann Anglican School, the site holds the ruins of an old homestead, owned by some of the more successful small farmers in the Ginninderra district, Thomas and Catherine Gribble. The Gribbles were contributors to the economic, social and...

A Sydney investment company has lodged plans for an $80 million bulky goods development on three levels at Gungahlin Town Centre. An urban planning report said the massive shopping centre would be North Canberra’s biggest assembly of retailers of bulky goods – fridges, lounges,...

The ACT Government would have saved $20m if from the start it had built the Gungahlin Drive Extension as a four-lane rather than two-lane road. Roads ACT director Tony Gill told the estimates committee yesterday the duplication of the Gungahlin Drive Extension would be finished by June 2012...

The first sod was turned at Canberra's newest catholic primary school and early learning and care centre in Gungahlin last week. Mother Teresa Primary School at the corner of Wimmera Street and Mapleton Avenue in Harrison will cater for 520 pupils from preschool to Year 6 from next year....