Good morning, Canberra. There's a relatively cool top of 20 degrees and potentially some rain on the way today. Here’s what’s making news.

Non-industrial revolution: Denman Prospect's new school is principal's dream

Photos: Canberra’s newest school, the $47 million Evelyn Scott School, is ready to open its doors to students. But parents dropping off their kids for day one mightn’t recognise education as they knew it.

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Carrie Bradshaw's shoes found at Belco Vinnies

They are the most talked-about designer shoes in the national capital since Julie Bishop's red satin resignation heels.

Canberra praised as 'backbone' of the BBL

Subscriber: Big Bash boss Alistair Dobson has hailed Canberra for helping to save the competition, ahead of the capital's finals fling.

'At age nine, my mother's childhood was over'

Dr Karin Blumenthal Elix told her mother's story of surviving the Holocaust for the first time publicly at a special remembrance event.

Awards show that honours run in the family

Shirley McLaren has lived a big life so it's no surprise she made a splash in this week's Australia Day Honours.

Times Past

The public bodies of a capital city not two decades old were bristling to find out what the government had planned for the future development of Canberra, The Canberra Times reported on this day 90 years ago. READ MORE