A short run of rainy days should come to an end with a sunny Thursday reaching a glorious high of 24 degrees. Enjoy. If you were liking the wet weather, don't worry. There's a good chance of another fall on Saturday.

What's making news around the national capital today? Well, for a city that once had about a 1:100 person-to-sheep ratio, this first story is a reminder of the place our ovine friends have in its history.

Ignore, if you can, the wonderful heading from our reporter Steve Evans, and listen to the story he's sharing.

Des de Belle was a shearer in the dying days of the Yarralumla Woolshed in the 1960s and remembers the pungent smell from the grease of the wool and the kerosene that fuelled the machinery.

Mr de Belle, 90, was among a bunch of old hands who met on Tuesday when the building was sign-posted on the Woden Heritage Trail.

The event prompted a flood of memories - old factory memories of the sheep and the men and machinery and the shearing time which meant wool cheques.

Read more in this story.

The route that light rail's second stage would take through Canberra looks more and more like it will skip the parliamentary triangle.

After the federal government tabled its response to a parliamentary committee report about the route, which the ACT government proposed would take in Parkes and Barton, it appears State Circle will be the chosen path from the city's centre to Woden.

The Commonwealth warned the ACT government's chosen route through Barton would "unavoidably add further complexity, time, and cost to the project".

Katie Burgess explains this development in the light rail project.

It is one of Canberra's more fashionable shopping precincts. But a business association for Manuka fears rising commercial rates and a lack of government investment could erode that.

The group says increasing government charges for building owners have left landlords with less money to invest in maintenance.

Susan Proctor, who walks from her Manuka office to collect the post every day, finds the growing number of vacancies she sees on the way a concern.

Many of the businesses and buildings the commercial property lawyer passes were once her clients, Katie Burgess writes.

Inked is a journey through 200 years of cartoons in this country. According to The Canberra Times' cartoonist David Pope, it's also a rare opportunity to marvel at just how warts-and-all awful they can be.

Isn’t that exactly what a good cartoonist should do, provoke a conversation, challenge the norm, poke fun, make a point?

From James Gillray’s The Great South Sea Caterpillar Transform’d into a Bath Butterfly, drawn in 1795, depicting Sir Joseph Banks, to Matt Golding’s 2018 cartoon The Hunter and the Hunted, a shark-fin like pair of red speedos circling a forlorn looking Malcolm Turnbull, moments of history have been captured in a single illustration.

As Karen Hardy writes, you’ll recognise many names of those who have poked fun at authority.

New guidelines to make golf more inclusive will be a "good kick up the backside" for clubs ignoring the push for greater participation by women and girls, the sport's administrators hope. The capital will host its second major women's tournament in a week when the Women's NSW Open begins at the Queanbeyan Golf Club on Thursday morning, following the Canberra Classic at Royal Canberra.

Golf Australia and the Australian Human Rights Commission detailed its program to reduce sex discrimination at clubs, warning clubs could face legal action if they don't provide equal access to courses.

Chris Dutton reports.