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At the Burra fire shed, RFS crew leader Brian Egloff prepares for worsening weather conditions ahead. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Out in the rural acreages, there's an anxious wait ahead

Peter Brewer

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Gayle Tomlinson

Photo: QPRC

Rain reaps rewards for rural road repair

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PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa sows hope after fires

Robyn Ainsworth

Hoons targeted by WCCC following survey

Hoons targeted by WCCC following survey

Tom Anderson, chair

LIFELINE: Rock lobster fisher Callum McCarthy with empty cray pots in Portland, Victoria, after orders for the crustaceans were cancelled. The Victorian Government has since thrown a financial lifeline to lobster fishers, rolling over quotas until next year. Picture: Anthony Brady

IN DEPTHCoronavirus puts $15 billion agricultural, seafood sector at risk

Andrew Marshall

SUSPECT: Paul Walter Hauser plays Richard Jewell, who went from being hailed a hero to a villain following the Atlanta Olympics bombing.

Putting the shine back on a hero

Stefan Kussy

At the Burra fire shed, RFS crew leader Brian Egloff prepares for worsening weather conditions ahead. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos

Out in the rural acreages, there's an anxious wait ahead

Peter Brewer

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Gayle Tomlinson

With the gang hook removed from its eye, the shark was released and swam away. Picture: Sea Life Aquarium.

Rescue mission to save snagged shark

Juniors: The Queanbeyan Blues are looking for more junior girls to join their ranks in the 2020 season. Photo: Queanbeyan Junior Blues.

Queanbeyan Blues call out for junior women to sign up

Zac Lowe

Scooter riders at the Gungahlin skatepark are looking forward to the ASA Scooter Competition on Saturday, February 8 in Woden.

Scooter riders gear up for third ACT competition

Whether you haven't played tennis for a while, or want to get into the sport, open court sessions is for you.

It's open session

Kris Mitchell

Juniors: The Queanbeyan Blues are looking for more junior girls to join their ranks in the 2020 season. Photo: Queanbeyan Junior Blues.

Queanbeyan Blues call out for junior women to sign up

Trip to the coast worth the drive

Trip to the coast worth the drive

Adam Samios

Funded: Jerrabomberra Tennis Club president Peter Terwee is excited for the upgrades to get underway. Photo: Peter Terwee.

Bright times ahead for Jerrabomberra Tennis Club

Burney Wong

The Vasco da Gama is its third incarnation and cruising the waters of South Australia.

Explore South Australia from the sea

Sally Macmillan

Australia's longest-running regional food festival, Orange FOOD Week, is now in its 29th year.

Orange, the hidden land of milk, honey and FOOD Week

Linda Moon

Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica of Saigon. Picture: Shutterstock

How to make the most of three days in Ho Chi Minh City

Hannah Warren

Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell and Michael Pea in 'Fantasy Island'. Picture: Christopher Moss/Sony Pictures

REVIEWDialling up the horror kills charm in Fantasy Island

Cris Kennedy

Paul Walter Hauser as Richard Jewell in 'Richard Jewell'. Picture: Warner Bros

REVIEWJewell's fall from hero to villian

Simon Weaving

Sonic the Hedgehog is a goofy comedy with a childlike protagonist. Picture: Paramount Pictures

REVIEWVideo game becomes goofy comedy

Cris Kennedy

Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell and Michael Pea in 'Fantasy Island'. Picture: Christopher Moss/Sony Pictures

REVIEWDialling up the horror kills charm in Fantasy Island

Trade data has revealed international markets can't get enough of Australia's fresh vegetables.

Demand grows for fresh Aussie vegetables

Sophie Moore

Still from The Lighthouse, starring Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson. Credit: A24 Pictures

REVIEWA moody, thought-provoking film

Ron Cerabona

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Emma Brown

Have a break: This summer explore more of our vast continent without worrying about network coverage. With Pennytel you can get 98.8 per cent coverage across Australia's populated areas.

Keeping covered this summer

Stockholm, Sweden.

Cruise the Baltic on a fully escorted tour

Emma Brown

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

Autumnal hues of the USA and Canada

How do you find a great driving instructor?

How do you find a great driving instructor?

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Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Could this be the perfect Christmas present?

Emma Brown

Residential property listings portal realestateview.com.au competes with Domain, which is majority owned by Nine Entertainment Co, and realestate.com.au, which is controlled by News Corp.

Catalano digital deal delivers property with a view

Smart technology: Today Acquire places property ads on news websites and social media outlets in view of people who are not actively looking to buy.

ACM pilots new digital platform to find the right buyer for your home

PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa sows hope after fires

Robyn Ainsworth

Photo: Marwan El Hassan.

How have bush fires affected the artistic community?

PRECAUTIONS: Wildlife must be handled with care to protect you and them.

How to cope with those close encounters of the wildlife kind

Lyndell Whyte

PLANTING IDEAS: Celebrity gardener Costa Georgiadis encourages Camdenville Public School students to see what goes on a ground level when planting fire retardant native shrubs.

Costa sows hope after fires

ACT RFS volunteers battling the North Black Range bushfire. Picture: Dion Georgopoulos.

Shout out to all those who keep us safe

PURR-DY LADY: She's soft and sweet and keen to meet.

Glamour puss looking for love

With the gang hook removed from its eye, the shark was released and swam away. Picture: Sea Life Aquarium.

Rescue mission to save snagged shark

Tender and terrifying: this common centipede is curling itself around its young to protect them. Picture: Caleb Cluff.

This centipede is a crawling, caring mother

STUNNING: Follow the Midnight Sun through the Arctic Circle on a Viking Cruise from London to Bergen in Norway.

Enter now: win a Scandinavian cruise with Viking

Peter Sugar describes a torrent of water, logs and fire debris sounding like a tsunami as it swept into Nerrigundah. Photo: Adam McLean

Trail of tears as fire-scarred South Coast mops up after the flood

Pot luck: Ray Hollingsworth with the ring he found at Gateway Plaza. Picture: Anthony Brady

Juliette, a builder's found your ring, but where's Romeo?

Kyra Gillespie

Superb fairy-wren populations in Canberra are declining. Picture: Simon Bennett

Why global warming is such a turn-off for Canberra's favourite bird

Steve Evans

Clare and Lyn Hedger, from Alfredton, are on board the Diamond Princess which is quarantined in Yokohama Harbour after a coronavirus outbreak. Picture: Clare Hedger

Mum, daughter in windowless lockdown on coronavirus cruise ship

Greg Gliddon

Team Rubicon volunteers at the end of a long day dropping and chopping trees in Cobargo and Quaama. Photos: Ben Smyth

Viking gods and the grey shirt army: Team Rubicon Australia in action

Ben Smyth

A love letter to my beautiful, blue friend

OPINIONA love letter to my beautiful, blue friend

Marie Low

YOU DECIDE: A baby throwing a tantrum or a daring and unique political operative? Picture: Gareth Gardner

SATIRE'No joke': Barnaby creates party fever dream

Mark Bode

SURPRISE: The plant-based meat patties I tried didn't taste like real steak or lamb - but neither do actual meat patties.

OPINIONPlant-based meat trend's bit hard to swallow

Father Brendan Lee

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

NSW Seniors Festival: so much to celebrate

LADY OF THE HOUSE: Miriam Margolyes as Aunt Prudence in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears, in cinemas nationally from February 27.

Dear Prudence comes out to play for unstoppable Miriam

Geraldine Cardozo

TURNING THE PAGE: Rosie Craven is living with early stage Alzheimer's but is now able to enjoy hobbies such as reading again thanks to a new clinical trial.

Everything is Rosie thanks to new Alzheimer's drug trial

Rowan Cowley

Former emergency service chiefs say the bushfire royal commission is doomed to fail.

Royal Commission doomed: ex-fire chiefs

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A mid-air collision between two planes that killed four people in Victoria is being investigated.

Tributes flow for Vic plane crash victims

13m ago

Stephen Fontana has detailed his critical internal review into the Bourke Street carnage.

Bourke St killer's hostage knew of plans

22m ago

Nicola Gobbo's informing on her clients was an issue for her, a former assistant commissioner says.

Lawyers should be allowed inform: ex-cop

26m ago

A WA officer has been arrested in relation to the shooting death of a troubled Aboriginal woman.

WA cop arrested over fatal shooting

28m ago

It has emerged a toddler was left on Goodstart Early Learning bus two years ago.

Child left on Goodstart bus two years ago

Darren Cartwright
31m ago

Belal Betka pleaded guilty to engaging in hostile activity in a foreign country.

Sydney man jailed for joining IS in Syria

Tiffanie Turnbull
40m ago

Former rugby league player Jarryd Hayne has pleaded not guilty to aggravated sexual assault.

Dispute in Jarryd Hayne NSW rape trial

Mark Russell
41m ago

Test farm dam water.

Free water testing still available

Mark Griggs
1hr ago

The Copi Hollow channel releases water into Lake Menindee in August 2012. The lakes system was then full beyond the brim. WaterNSW modelling suggests 40,000 megalitres might make it to the top of the lakes.

Floodwater confusion

Daniel Pedersen
1hr ago

The NSW Government has announced they will NOT proceed with the privatisation of the Forestry Corporation following the bushfires.

NSW Government will not privatise Forestry Corp

Olivia Calver
2hrs ago

PERFECT MATCH: Ensure your beautiful dishes are complemented by beautiful glassware and a quality cutlery set.

The finer points on cutlery

SUM TOTAL: A simple equation will give an indication of how long assets will last.

Simple rule of thumb may answer longevity question

Eco-friendly backyard tips

Eco-friendly backyard tips