The Canberra Times Today

Today is January 12, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, more than 60,000 Canberra homeowners have been stung with rates increases this financial year, new figures show, and police are investigating two "flagrant breaches" of home quarantine measures and two "unacceptable" incidents at COVID check points.

Today is January 11, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, a major expansion of Canberra's women's and children's hospital is now facing lengthy delays, and the ACT State Emergency Service volunteers have been recruited to help ACT Policing's COVID-19 taskforce check on people in home and hotel quarantine.

Today is January 8, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, hours after hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the US Capitol in a harrowing assault on American democracy, a shaken Congress has formally certified Democrat Joe Biden's election victory, and COVID-19 checkpoints are no longer limited to the ACT border, with pop-up checkpoints appearing across Canberra targeting tourist hotspots and vehicles with NSW number plates.

Today is January 7, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, state and territory leaders will meet on Friday to discuss improving COVID-19 safety on international travel to prevent an outbreak of the new strains of the virus, and the Australian War Memorial will drop the phrase "for we are young and free" from its advertising after the wording was changed in the national anthem.

Today is January 6, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, cross-border commuters trying to get home were forced to take a 30 kilometre detour via Bungendore, with residents and regional councils left in the dark about road closures and border checks, and police will be targeting Canberra's national institutions and NSW number plates to enforce the border ban on anyone who has recently been in Sydney.

Today is January 5, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, ACT's State Emergency Services personnel have been asked to support police in managing the roadside checks and helping to prevent the spread of coronavirus into the territory from current "red zones" in NSW, and interstate COVID-19 outbreaks around Australia's eastern states have triggered the introduction of mandatory face masks in public spaces but the ACT government has said it won't be following suit for now.

Today is January 4, 2021 and this is your daily news briefing from The Canberra Times. In today’s update, Territory police will continue their border crackdown on non-residents as the ACT enters its third day of border closures with COVID-19 hotspots in New South Wales, and Canberra could run out of hospital beds as early as 2026 even with the planned Canberra Hospital expansion, documents reveal.

Today is January 1, 2021 and this is a special message from The Canberra Times team.

Today is December 28, 2020 and this is an update from The Canberra Times team.

Today is December 25, 2020 and this is a special Christmas message to you and yours, from the Canberra Times team.