It's Friday eve! We're in for a mostly sunny day today with a top of 28 degrees.

Let's take a look at the headlines.

The official home of Australia's memories, the National Archives of Australia, will shed 40 employees in two years.

The institution may resort to redundancies to hit staffing targets.

Doug Dingwall has more.

A new report shows more than 40 per cent of Canberra principals believe they're at risk of violence and bullying.

Our education reporter Emily Baker analysed a report by the Australian Catholic University which looked at the experiences of 119 principals across the territory.

More than half surveyed feel stress and almost 60 per cent experience sleeping issues and burnout.

Read more here.

Lawyers are accusing NSW Police of holding unlawful rifle training on an unlicensed shooting range near Goulburn.

In August 47 officers from the NSW Public Order and Riot Squad descended on the 2000 hectare property near Collector for two week-long live fire training events.

Sherryn Groch learnt the range was not yet approved and the high-powered gunfire was disrupting the local community.

More on that here.

Labor Canberra MP Gai Brodtmann is urging the coalition to act to reduce the number of flight cancellations in and out of the capital.

While cancellations were down in January, Doug Dingwall writes QantasLink cancelled five flights in one day last week.

As Barnaby Joyce struggles through the crisis that has taken over his political future, there could be pitfalls aplenty for the Canberra bureaucrats trying to give effect to his decision to move the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority to his home town of Armidale.

In a small town where new government buildings are an uncommon windfall and the development community is small and coloured by remarkable tales, the choice for the APVMA's new home is perhaps more fraught than most.

Kirsten Lawson and Doug Dingwall look at some of the sites thought to have been shortlisted for the lucrative build.

Illustration: David Pope