Good morning, Canberra. The smoke is sticking around for another day. We're in for an otherwise cloudy day with a top of 28. Here are your headlines.

With three farms to run and fences to fix, there's no time to grieve

Patrick and Robert Salway died trying to protect their home at Wandella. Now their family is working hard to keep things together.

Sport

Commerford calls for climate change action

The coastal town where Kalindi Commerford grew up is surrounded by fire, which so far has destroyed more than 304,000 hectares of land.

Raiders recruit moves out of his comfort zone

Subscriber only: George Williams may still be trying to remember everyone's names, but that doesn't mean Canberra isn't his ideal place.

Horn-Tszyu talks part of 'hell of an exciting time'

Dean Lonergan is preparing to negotiate a domestic showdown between his prize fighter Jeff Horn and boxing royalty in Tim Tszyu.

'It's huge': Cavalry count the cost of smoke haze

Chief executive Donn McMichael says the prospect of cancelling another baseball series next week would have a major financial impact.

Times Past

"Three out of 11 were faulty", the headline read of a story about the quality of Canberra's suburban lawnmowers. Prompted by an Australian Consumers Association warning about the dangers caused by faulty mowers, a reporter and a lawnmower maintenance engineer had set out to see how we fared. READ MORE