I hope you all enjoyed your Australia Day long weekend. It's going to warm up again today, but there is a chance of a shower this afternoon. From today until Friday you can expect a top of 35 degrees with showers. The fire danger rating today it high, and people are urged to check pets and wildlife have access to cool drinking water.

The influx of Canberra's new suburbs and developments is causing headaches for rural residents who watch trucks hauling clean fill from construction sites over the border to legally dump on local farms.

As Finbar O'Mallon reports, Wallaroo landowners Phil Peelgrane and Ross Hampton are concerned about the long-term effects of clean fill dumping in their area.

Inner south residents are not happy that a tree on Franklin Street, which has been at the centre of a long-running development controversy, is now showing signs of dieback.

The 18.5-metre-tall London plane tree has seen better days, with its leaves and branches turning brown since November.

While we're on the theme of trees, Katie Burgess reveals Canberra is losing 3000 trees a year, including mature trees that are cut down and juvenile trees that either die or go missing.

While there are more than 768,000 trees on public land across the ACT, the City Services Directorate only planted 1450 new street trees last fiscal year.

Although she once thought her international career was over, Lauren Wells has opened the door for a third Olympic campaign.

After reducing her training schedule to concentrate on becoming a full-time teacher, Wells opened her 2019 season at home with a blistering 55.72 seconds in the 400-metre hurdles at the Canberra Track Classic on Monday.

Already thinking about how to cure those post-holiday blues? Well, we have the list for you! Karen Hardy has compiled a list of all the foodie things to do in Canberra this week.