| Good morning, Canberra. After a hot week, we're in for a cooler start to summer with a windy day and 23 degrees. Here's what's making headlines. |
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| The big North Black Range fire east of Canberra was expected to continue through Sunday as the hostile windy weather picked up after overnight easing. |
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| "We kind of already knew in our bones that it was gone. But actually seeing it, that tore a great hole in our hearts." |
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| Minor injuries, one home lost, four outbuildings razed and no stock losses was the situation from the North Black Range fire. |
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| Some residents and their animals evacuated to the Bungendore Showground to escape the North Black Range fire. |
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| The struggle for basics should not be part of life in a country ''as great as Australia'', says anti-poverty campaigner. |
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| Canberra's new drug and alcohol sentencing option will favour rehabilitation over jail time to help reduce reoffending. |
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| Manuka Pool opened for the season a month later than usual after undergoing a $2.42 million facelift, which earned swimmers' approval. |
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| It's a common refrain that ‘greenies’ preventing hazard-reduction burning are responsible for bushfires. Here are the facts. |
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| Subscriber only: Rugby great David Pocock and his wife Emma want Australians to understand our natural environment. |
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| Subscriber only: They conceded two controversial penalties but Canberra's long wait for an away win in the W-League is finally over. |
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| Subscriber only: She was in a moon boot on Friday. But nothing could stop Kia Nurse from leading the Capitals to victory yesterday. |
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| | Times Past "Canberra has been called a lot of things, but until yesterday, no-one had thought to describe it as a scruffy, socialist place with the look of the Third World." That was the opening line from political journo Tony Wright's report on Nationals backbencher Michael Cobb's withering assessment of the state of the capital, particularly its long grass in public areas. He said these were symptomatic of Labor chief minister Rosemary Follett and her Urban Services minister Elinor Grassby's "obsession" with socialist ideology, which he said was stopping her from hiring private lawnmowers.
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