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Happy Thursday! We're looking at a very warm day with a forecast top of 34 degrees and low of 10 degrees.
Let's take a look at what's making news locally today.
Canberra rents rise 8pc
Apartment rents are second only to Sydney, according to new data released on Thursday by Domain, owned by Fairfax.
The median cost of renting a house in Canberra was $540 a week in December, up from $500 a year earlier. Nationally, the median rental was $435, little changed from a year earlier.
Han Nguyen has the details on this one.
IT problems plague ATO
More than 20 outages have hit the Tax Office's IT systems in two years, prompting calls for the Coalition to stop further tech failures at the agency.
The ATO has detailed its tech problems after releasing a PricewaterhouseCoopers report last month that found the agency was unprepared for failures hitting its systems in December 2016.
Labor has hit out at the Coalition for slashing public service jobs.
Read Doug Dingwall's story here.
Fifteen years on
It was a fire so great it changed the nature of the atmosphere above it.
A fire that stole the lives of four Canberrans, destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of bushland, took 487 homes from the city's families and scorched the city's soul.
But what's changed in the years since? Daniel Burdon reports on what's changed since that fateful day.
Changed for life
It has been 5480 days since Matthew Dutkiewicz was frantically trying to ring his brother, Jamey.
Jamey, Matt's eldest brother was staying at their family home in Duffy when the 2003 bushfires hit, a day that he will never forget.
While Jamey was safe, the home was one of those destroyed while Matt was fighting the fires.
Here's Han Nguyen's report on Matt.
Trams en route
And some good news: one tram a week will start arriving in Canberra from the end of March, with testing on an electrified track to begin in April.
Katie Burgess reports the consortium behind stage one of light rail claims it is on track to finish the project by the end of the year.
In all, 14 trams will ferry up to 207 people each up and down the 12-kilometre track from Civic to Gungahlin.
Read more here.