| Good morning Canberra. We're heading for a top of 27 degrees today, and there's showers forecast for this afternoon. Here's the news. |
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| Work to extend the light rail to Lake Burley Griffin is on track to commence later this year after the Commonwealth ruled the project will not require a full environmental impact assessment. |
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| Subscriber only: Parliamentarians are looking to change laws to make it harder for governments to nobble Auditor-General reports. |
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| First home buyers made up almost one-third of all owner-occupiers in the ACT, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show. |
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| Dozens of mature trees in Dickson, which residents feared could be axed to make way for a road, will be protected under new planning rules. |
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| A half-century ago, a bored child looked out of the car window somewhere to the west of Canberra and got interested. |
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| The hazardous bushfire smoke that blanketed Canberra for weeks took a heavy toll on workers physically, emotionally and financially. |
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| Subscriber only: Christopher Michael French was handed a jail sentence of three years and five months. |
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| Subscriber only: The Capitals drew first blood in their best of three semi-final series with an 84-70 win over the Melbourne Boomers. |
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| Subscriber only: Leena Khamis had a celebration up her sleeve when she booted Canberra United's breakthrough goal at McKellar Park. |
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| Subscriber only: He thinks George Williams will be back, but half Matt Frawley also expects to get a chance to make his Raiders debut. |
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| Subscriber only: Irae Simone, Darcy Swain, Bayley Kuenzle, Mack Hansen and assistant coach Peter Hewat have been quarantined. |
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| | Times Past A tragic day that would become known as Ash Wednesday dominated the front page on this day in 1983. A state of disaster had been declared in Victoria and South Australia because of bushfires that the headline said had killed 30. Sadly that number would grow to 74. Hundreds of houses had also been destroyed. The death toll of this day would remain the worst until it was so terribly exceeded during the 2009 'Black Saturday' Victorian bushfires. READ MORE
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