Good morning, Canberra. We're in for a wet Saturday, with up to 35mm of rain on the way en route to a top of 15 degrees. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Subscriber | Exclusive: The family of Labor senator Katy Gallagher is surviving a "traumatic" experience in Covid quarantine, after the politician's fully-vaccinated partner also contracted COVID-19 in addition to her teen daughter.
ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has made a desperate plea for people with COVID symptoms to get tested immediately, expressing concern about a troubling number of people infectious in the community.
Subscriber: "A stranger with a knife stole my daughter right in front of me." With those words, a horrified mother began to explain the terrifying ordeal John Michael Gray, 27, put her family through in broad daylight in Civic on August 15 last year.
Subscriber | Opinion: Three states have already withdrawn from the national agreement about when vaccination rates would trigger the moment for a general reopening of borders, writes Jack Waterford.
Dual Paralympic Games gold medallist Vanessa Low, of Canberra, almost never reached the podium in Tokyo, after stepping away from athletics in 2012 before staging her comeback. She says it came down to belief.
Subscriber: Brumbies in Australia's high country are a divisive issue that prompt passionate views from both sides. Author Anthony Sharwood tackles the subject head-on in a new book.
Food rescue charity OzHarvest in Canberra is now buying cooked meals for those in need during lockdown, spending money it doesn't have to help those in crisis.
At the end of the ACT lockdown, The Canberra Times' newsroom, sales and circulation staff will relocate from their current building in Fyshwick to new offices in Civic.
