Yes, there's more rain around today. We're looking at another top of 28 degrees with a 50 per cent chance of showers in the afternoon and evening.

Grab that coffee and dive into today's headlines:

Turns out that, aside from the Northern Territory, Canberrans are having the most babies in the country.

In fact the ACT is also the only state or territory to buck the national downward trend and record an increase in its fertility rate over the past decade.

We sent the baby of our newsroom, new trainee Jasper Lindell, to take a closer look at the boom.

A new blood test being developed at the Australian National University has given new hope to patients at risk of dry macular degeneration.

Lead researcher Dr Riccardo Natoli, from The John Curtin School of Medical Research and ANU Medical School, said the blood test could detect patients at risk of the disease and pick it up earlier.

That's good news to people such as Canberra woman Jan James, who was diagnosed with dry macular degeneration.

Daniella White has the story here.

Police are working to solve the mystery of who shot this Canberra dog after it was found with a bullet in its back leg last Monday evening.

Alice Hanks and her wife Amanda rushed Ruby the dachshund-labrador cross to the vet when they noticed she was not putting her back paw down.

Police are now investigating and Jasper Lindell has the story here.

D-Day has arrived for Canberra and five other A-League hopefuls, who will be nervously awaiting the outcome of the Football Federation Australia board meeting today.

Canberra A-League bid leader Michael Caggiano has vowed to fight for as long as it takes for the capital to win an expansion licence, undeterred by rumours of another delay to the process.

Eamonn Tiernan has the story here.