Good morning, Canberra. We've got a cool top of 23 degrees on the way as we inch closer to the weekend. Here’s what’s making news.

Keeping the Summernats faith with an informal city cruise

The classic and muscle car fraternity is preparing to create some Summernats-style colour and noise with its own city cruise plans over the coming days.

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Canberra's e-scooter experiment has failed

Opinion: Whether it's for reasons of safety, tackiness or the environment, these two-wheeled menaces should be banned, writes Clive Hamilton.

How COVID-19 became the Brumbies' Grinch

Subscriber: Several players missed Christmas with their families this summer so as not to compromise their preseason training schedule.

What to do with the kids these school holidays

From Canberra Aqua Park to the National Dinosaur Museum, we've got everything you'll need to keep your kids busy.

The problem with the power to pardon

Opinion: Trump is pardoning allies like never before. Our equivalent is rarely used. Surely there's a middle way, writes Janna Thompson.

Times Past

A story on the front page of The Canberra Times 42 years ago today brings to mind Donny Osmond's 1972 song Puppy Love. When Mr and Mrs Alf Fripp of Lyneham found five small pups dumped on their doorstep, they thought some unprintable thoughts about the people who could have done such an unfeeling thing. READ MORE