Happy New Year and welcome to 2021's first Monday. We've got a plentiful day of rain ahead on our way to a top of 26 degrees. Here are today's headlines.

ACT farmers rewrite the book on chooks

Farming hasn't always run in the veins of the Lilleymans but that all changed when they bought a property in Kambah.

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Flannery strikes late as United stuns big guns

Subscriber: A late Nicki Flannery strike brought Melbourne City's 17-match unbeaten streak to an end as Canberra continued its dream start.

Preparing to take control in the year ahead

Opinion: If we take what we already know going in to 2021 and start working backwards, a clearer picture emerges, writes Nicholas Stuart.

Canberra's best seven swimming spots revealed

You don't have to drive two hours east if you need to cool off on a sweltering hot Canberra day over the final two months of summer.

The escape room where you can cure a virus

The world may have been living with a pandemic for a year now, but one ACT business has centred around a fast-spreading virus since 2018.

Times Past

About 28,000 young pine trees in the Uriarrra plantation had been destroyed in a bushfire which had already burned for four days, The Canberra Times reported on this day 89 years ago. The fire had burned since the middle of the previous week, starting on the western bank of the Murrumbidgee River near Hall. The blaze had been brought under control, and the Federal Capital Administration's chief lands officer expected no further damage.
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