Good morning, Canberra. There's a very high chance of more showers and thunderstorms today, with a top of 28 degrees forecast. Here’s what’s making news in the capital.
Subscriber: The ACT government has signed contracts to purchase two blocks of rural land in NSW that will form part of the cross-border Ginninderry development.
Video: High-quality rapid COVID tests should be used to screen contacts of coronavirus cases and people wanting to travel interstate to free up expensive laboratory testing capacity, a leading epidemiologist says.
Subscriber: The whistleblower who exposed a lewd act at Parliament House in March has been the subject of two new police search warrants in what his lawyer has described as "victimisation".
Despite police resources being shifted to ACT border duties during the COVID lockdown period, the NRMA says it was "genuinely shocked" by the huge decline in drink driving tests in Canberra in the past year, and the high number of positive readings.
Video: Canberra's hundreds of roundabouts have made it the butt of jokes around the rest of the country for decades but road safety experts have confirmed what we knew all along: they do make our roads safer.
Subscriber | Opinion: It is rare for them to be assertive, and unheard of for them to put their own jobs on the line for a principle, writes Mark Kenny.
Video and photos: The most joyful place in Canberra on Saturday morning was most definitely a house in the city's south as it was swarmed with nearly 40 golden retrievers.