Don't let any patches of light frost fool you - we're in for a mostly sunny day with a top of 20 degrees. (And we all know those frosty starts make for clear skies.)

Grab a coffee or a cuppa and catch up on what's making news in the ACT.

It's no secret Canberra is home to a long list of eateries. But did you realise more than 300 new restaurants and cafes have opened over the last eight years?

Food establishments have fuelled Canberra's $3.2 billion night-time economy.

Turnover in ACT restaurants and cafes has grown by 40 per cent since 2009 to hit nearly $2 billion last year, according to a tool created to measure Australian night-time economies.

Katie Burgess and Karen Hardy have more here.

Last year, the ACT Planning and Land Authority approved plans for works associated with a planned waste transfer facility in Fyshwick. Then, in August, the authority revoked the development consent.

Now, the company behind the project, Capital Recycling Solutions, is appealing that latest decision. The group has lodged an application for appeal in the ACT Supreme Court, with a directions hearing scheduled for Thursday.

Blake Foden has more here.

The stoush continues.

Fresh evidence indicates Peter Dutton did not make a third intervention to save an au pair from deportation.

It calls into question former Border Force commissioner Roman Quaedvlieg's explosive claims about the Home Affairs Minister's personal connection to one of the cases.

But Labor has quickly disparaged the new information, provided by the Department of Home Affairs to the Senate inquiry into the au pair saga.

Fergus Hunter has more.

It's one of Canberra's biggest parties but most of us weren't invited.

All the glitz and glamour up on the hill overnight was thanks to the annual Mid Winter Ball - which wasn't really a "mid-winter ball" given it's September (although some days it does feel like winter...).

You can browse through all the pics in Kylar Loussikian's wrap.

The ACT Brumbies have poached a former rugby union schoolboys prodigy from the NRL.

Tom Wright will join the Brumbies on a two-year deal after deciding to leave the Manly Sea Eagles following a tumultuous season.

Chris Dutton has the latest here.