| Good morning, Canberra. There's a 70 per cent chance of a small amount of rain today and a top of 24 is predicted. Here's what's making news today. |
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| Devastation is everywhere on the journey into the small Snowy Valleys town of Batlow but there was also a sense of relief for many given the Rural Fire Service had expected much worse. |
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| The youngest of four Goulburn brothers died on Saturday evening while defending his friend Geoff Purcell's property at Batlow. |
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| Dawn brought glowing orange skies on Sunday, as large parts of south-east Australia woke to more favourable conditions. |
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| The ACT will remain in a state of alert as fires continue to burn close to the territory's southern border in remote areas of scrub land. |
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| The ACT government has accepted an offer from the Commonwealth for P2 masks, with doubts about which businesses can return to work today. |
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| It was with a mixture of relief, pride and delight that Todd Sorensen accepted the coveted Summernats grand champion sword on Sunday. |
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| Opinion: Scott Morrison's attempts to explain and message this fire crisis have left him looking facile and tin-eared, writes Kirsten Lawson. |
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| The ACT Brumbies have already packed up, while the Canberra Raiders are set to follow suit to escape Canberra's thick, acrid smoke. |
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| The NRL will likely grant the Canberra Raiders a salary cap exemption when the club moves its pre-season training from the ACT. |
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| She might have won the Bay Crits with back-to-back stage wins, but Canberra cyclist Chloe Hosking still feels bummed out. |
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| Football Federation Australia is considering a mid-week time slot for Canberra United's rescheduled W-League clash with Sydney FC. |
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| | Times Past The front page of The Canberra Times on this day 52 years ago carried a small report about the "life-giving" powers of a Manchester bakery's particular aroma. Nine months after a bakery introduced a new secret ingredient, six babies, including twins, had been born in eight days in the same street as the bakery. The bakery was set to investigate, but disclaimed responsibility. "We are very keen on productivity but we couldn't have foreseen this. We shall have to examine the ingredients more closely," a spokesman for the bakery said. Jean Hammond, 20, one of the mothers, said: "The smell really makes you feel good." READ MORE
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