Good morning and Happy Easter, Canberra. It looks like being a sunny day today with a top of 18 degrees. Here's what's making news in the capital.

Game of drones: How social distancing has impacted Easter in the ACT

Canberrans have had to turn to some outside-the-box methods to celebrate Easter during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The front line is not the hospital, it's your front door

Opinion: As an emergency dept. consultant, I believe people are still misunderstanding the dangers of COVID-19, writes David Caldicott.

How Canberra sports are coping with a shutdown

Our local sports codes will look to re-ignite the cooperative spirit that emerged during the drought in 2006-07 to beat the virus crisis.

Rita and Cornelis, an enduring love story

Let's forget the coronavirus for a second and soak up the joy of Melba couple Rita and Cornelis Besselink and their 70th wedding anniversary.

Simonsson eager to return to training paddock

Canberra Raiders young gun Bailey Simonsson admits he's been going a bit stir crazy cooped up at home. But there may be some hope ahead.

Times Past

'First orphan in Canberra from Vietnam' was a headline on the front page of The Canberra Times on this day in 1975. The piercing whine of aeroplane engines from Fairbairn RAAF Base during rehearsals of an air display was a familiar background sound for the first Vietnamese war orphan's arrival in Canberra. The little girl, Phan Thi-Hai, was met on the tarmac of Canberra Airport by her adoptive mother, Mrs Brigitta Wimmer of Garran, and paid little attention to the noise. READ MORE