December 5, 2025

Media Insider: Journalist Ian Wishart v RNZ and Broadcasting Standards Authority – the High Court case over a story about a run of hot weather in Hamilton

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 5, 2025

An RNZ story about Hamilton’s weather is at the centre of High Court legal action.http://dlvr.it/TPfbV2

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
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Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
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Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
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NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
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Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
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National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
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Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
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ODT quiz: January 28 January 27, 2026
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Wednesday, January 28.
A career woven in coloured wool January 27, 2026
Beverley Forrester (MNZM) and some of the products her team knits and crafts from natural, undyed coloured wool. PHOTO: ROBYN BRISTOW Beverley Forrester dismissed the official notification she received asking if she would accept a New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours
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Wool prices climb strongly as demand lifts January 27, 2026
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Jillian Clark. Photo: supplied The wider family of a veterinarian of more than 30 years found dead at her Crichton home on Friday was already reeling from a family death.
Richard Davison
Plan for railway to put town on map January 27, 2026
James Hadfield, Chloe Horner, Ada Hadfield, 10 months, Paul Horner, Lesley Horner, Espen Hadfield, 3. Photos: Gerrit Doppenberg The Waimea Plains Railway Trust is chugging away to put Mandeville on the map as a tourist spot with restored history.
Gerrit Doppenberg
Careless driving causing child’s death admitted January 27, 2026
Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg A woman has admitted to carelessly driving in a Gore driveway, causing the death of a toddler.
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Quirks of life in every corner behind the hill January 27, 2026
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Birthday party chance for reunion January 27, 2026
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Council inaction on river channel clearance threat to safety January 27, 2026
Gore and Mataura residents and their wider communities are deeply concerned due to the lethargic response of Environment Southland

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