ACT Fire & Rescue are on scene at RFG Dentistry, Brierly Street, Weston, following a fire from a small gas cylinder.
Fire has been extinguished with minimal damage.
Occupants utilised a fire blanket to cover the gas cylinder and safely self evacuated before ACT Fire & Rescue crews extinguished the fire.
Crews were alerted following an Automatic Fire [...]

Benaresq sent this in, can anyone confirm the veracity?
I recently noticed a bus stop next to a shared path in Weston.
Not sure if it’s some surprisingly clever vandalism, subtle street art or the result of a horrible government miscommunication, but it’s amusing anyway.
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ACT Policing has expressed its disappointment following a spate of property damage involving local businesses in the Weston Creek area.
Over the past month police have attended several incidents of property damage, the latest involving the Weston Creek Children’s Centre and McDonald’s Weston.
Around 10.20am on Saturday (February 2) police were called to the Weston Creek Children’s [...]

ACT Policing has arrested an 18-year-old Wanniassa man following an aggravated robbery in Weston last night (Tuesday, December 4).
Around 9.20pm two men entered the Subway. The men covered their faces with their shirts and threatened staff with a pair of scissors demanding cash.
The men then fled the store and were immediately confronted by police.
One man [...]

Tootza has sent this on in:
Couldn’t walk past this one without snapping a pick for you. To top it off a car had just left the ‘space’ to the left of this car!
Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it in to images@the-riotact.com .

A 95-year-old man has died in hospital following a collision in Weston last night (Thursday, November 22).
Around 6.45pm, the man was hit by a car while walking across Macnally Street near the intersection of Namatjira Drive in Weston. He was taken by the ACT Ambulance Service to The Canberra Hospital and died early this morning.
The [...]

ACT Policing arrested a 17-year-old teenager yesterday (Sunday, November 18) in relation to a robbery which occurred in Weston in late October.
ACT Policing will allege that the teenager stole a green Subaru Liberty sedan on Wednesday, October 31, from Greenway before committing the robbery later that day.
The robbery occurred at the Kingsley’s Chicken store in [...]

ACT Policing arrested a 19-year-old man yesterday (Saturday, November 17) for a robbery which occurred in Weston in late October.
Police will allege the man was in company with another man when he entered the Kingsley’s Chicken store in Weston around 9.20pm on Wednesday, October 31.
One was armed with a machete and both had their faces [...]

Hi RA-ers.  
There’s a new cafe/restaurant in Weston which opened less than two weeks and is worth a visit.  
It’s called Kusina and is Filipino-based in its cuisine – I’m not aware of any other Filipino places in Canberra.  
I’ve had good coffee there and a breakfast.  As well as good eggs benny etc, they [...]

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery in Weston last night (Wednesday, October 31).
Around 9.20pm two men, with their faces covered, entered the Kingsley’s Chicken restaurant on Liardet Street Weston and threatened staff with a machete, demanding cash.
Staff members complied with their demands and the two men left the store with a small [...]

ACTEW Water customers in the Weston, Waramanga and Stirling may experience some discolouration of the water supply from Thursday 4 October until Friday 5 October 2012 due to essential network operations.
It is difficult to predict which properties the discoloured water may reach, however the discolouration will clear with normal water use.
If the discolouration is still [...]

ACT Policing is calling for witnesses to multiple reports of property damage in Weston over the weekend.
The incidents occurred between 11.30pm Saturday 21 July and 4.00am Sunday 22 July.
Damage included a burnt out wheelie bin and broken window on Buvelot Street; a smashed bird bath on Withers Street; damage and theft of letterboxes on Souter [...]

An 18-year-old Holder man has been arrested after ACT Policing executed a search warrant and seized drugs from his car and house yesterday afternoon (July 16).
Around 12.30am last Saturday (July 14), officers from Woden General Duties searched a blue Ford XR6 at the Weston skate park, after reports of people acting suspiciously. During the search [...]

tcol1979 has posted this to YouTube with the following note:
Call Jim’s Mowing any time for a hit-n-run…
The driver of this Holden Commodore didn’t even stop after side-swiping the cyclist.
The cyclist was wearing high-visibility clothing compliant with both “AS/NZS 4602(1999) High Visibility Safety Garments” and “AS/NZS 1906.4(1997) High Visibility Materials for Safety Garments”
Extended footage is also [...]

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery which occurred last night (Sunday, May 13) in Weston.
Around 6.45pm a 29-year-old man was walking along the bicycle path on the Weston Creek side of Hindmarsh Drive, near the Tuggeranong Parkway underpass, when he was confronted by a man. The male offender demanded the victim hand [...]

Territory And Municipal Services have a page up with plans for yet another of Canberra’s forgotten arboreta, Weston’s Featherstone Gardens:
Fetherston Gardens, which opened in 1974, was part of the former Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) School of Horticulture in Weston. The gardens are named after the first and longest serving head of the school, [...]

ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to a fire at a café in Weston early this morning (Thursday, January 12).
Around 4am police were called to a fire at AD’s Café in Brierly Street. ACT Fire and Rescue were also in attendance, had extinguished the blaze and deemed the fire suspicious.
It is estimated the fire caused $100,000 [...]

Two 13-year-old boys and two male youths, aged 16 and 17, were arrested by ACT Policing this morning (Wednesday 30 November) for an armed robbery at a service station in Weston overnight.
Police will allege the four youths, two armed with firearms, entered the Caltex Service Station on Brierly Street in Weston and approached the counter, [...]

The Health Directorate is warning of a measles outbreak at the Orana Steiner School:
The ACT Health Directorate has been notified of measles in students from the Orana Steiner School in Weston. Two confirmed cases were notified yesterday and investigations have led to the identification of further cases today.  
The Chief Health Officer Paul Kelly has written [...]

Simon Corbell has announced the start of a Master Plan for the Weston Group Centre (Cooleman Court to the likes of you and me).
“The community’s knowledge about the centre and ideas for its future are important to us as we develop a master plan that will guide the centre’s development over the next 20 to [...]

A 30-year-old Weston man has been arrested for burglary yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, September 27) in Waramanga.
About 4.40pm a Waramanga male resident saw a man acting suspiciously leaving a neighbours house on a bike with a backpack.
The neighbour approached the man and asked if he lived at the residence. The alleged offender replied no at which [...]

Many thanks to Pepper for sending in a cracking example of humour on classified site Gumtree.
Now I couldn’t lie to you, there are a couple of bikes out there that are better than this one. There is a pretty snazzy white bike that has been lying down in the painted green cycle path on Adelaide [...]

ACT Policing has released CCTV images of two alleged offenders following the aggravated robberies of two taxi drivers in Red Hill and Weston earlier this month (Friday, September 9).
The first incident occurred around 4.40am when the taxi driver was approached by two men in Cygnet Crescent, Red Hill. One of the men punched the driver [...]

ACT Policing is calling for witnesses to a pursuit yesterday (Thursday 15 September) through parts of Canberra.
About 10:25pm police attempted to stop a gold coloured Mazda 323 with one headlight travelling northbound on Drakeford Drive. The vehicle failed to stop and a pursuit ensued.
The pursuit continued through Kambah, Waramanga, Weston, and Curtin. Stop sticks were [...]

Two taxi drivers have been assaulted and property stolen early this morning by two unknown men in separate incidents (Friday, September 9).
The first incident occurred about 4.40 am in a Cygnet Crescent car park in Red Hill. The driver was preparing to begin his shift when two men approached the parked taxi. One man punched [...]

A 38-year-old Weston man was caught drink driving on Sunday morning (September 4) with a reading more than four times the legal limit.
Around 2.15am police stopped a vehicle on Streeton Drive in Weston in order to conduct a roadside breath test on the driver. The driver undertook a breath test, which returned a positive result.
The [...]

KeenGolfer has provided an answer to a query posted yesterday about police activity in Weston.
ACT Policing has praised the awareness and responsiveness of the public after receiving reports of a suspicious person doorknocking in Weston yesterday afternoon (June 8).
About 1.30pm, a concerned member of the public contacted police and provided a description of a male [...]

ACT Policing is calling for witnesses to a dangerous high-speed ride through traffic by a motorcyclist this afternoon (Thursday, May 5) in Tuggeranong and Weston.
About 3:10pm today, a police vehicle was stopped at the intersection of O’Halloran Circuit and Drakeford Drive, in Kambah when officers observed a motorcycle travelling north at high speed on Drakeford [...]

ACT Policing is seeking public assistance following a burglary at the Canberra Irish Club in Weston overnight, which also involved more than $220,000 worth of damage to poker machines.
A small amount of cash was stolen from the poker machines during the offence, which occurred between 11pm last night and 5.30am today (Wednesday, April 20).
Police attended [...]

Andrew Barr has posted online a lengthy speech to the Assembly on where the Master Plan process is up to.
Of particular interest is that in 2011-12 the priority list is:
– Oaks Estate, which is already committed and some work is being undertaken in the preparation of the master plan
– Weston – Cooleman Court group centre
– [...]

Hi Rioters,
Can someone enlighten me what the two big BANGS were Weston today around 1-ish? My daughter and other children from Orana, were quite concerned the AFP Weston Campus had been under attack? I don’t know what the kids from the Islamic school thought?
These kids have been subjected to TRG in full riot gear running [...]

ACT Policing are reminding all motorists to be diligent around vehicle security after a number of vehicles were broken into in the Woden and Weston area this week.
Superintendent Kylie Flower from ACT Policing’s Crime Prevention Team said thieves will generally target vehicles that are left unsecured and have valuables in view.
“Many thieves are opportunistic and [...]