Media Insider: Air NZ sends flight safety video into holding pattern; RNZ faces shake-up at highest level; NBR v IRD stand-off heats up; The spicy battle for KFC account

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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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Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
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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
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
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Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
Ben Uffindell
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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Rugby club of year news was ‘a bit of a secret’ December 15, 2025
Waimate Rugby Club captain Matt Hayman shows off the shield the club received for being named Club of the Year at the New Zealand Rugby Awards last week. PHOTO: NIC DUFF The Waimate Rugby Club has been keeping some good news under wraps.
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Lake overflow unlikely to stop soon December 15, 2025
PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Water spills from Lake Pukaki into the Pukaki River on Friday.
‘I’ve gone down wrong track’: drug dealer December 15, 2025
A man deported from Australia for criminal offending says he started dealing drugs in Queenstown because he struggled to find work.
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Positions yet to be filled December 15, 2025
Mana whenua positions are yet to be filled at the Invercargill City Council as processes are worked through behind the scenes.
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New site may be investigated despite local vote December 15, 2025
The site where the Roxburgh town hall and cinema was, shortly after the fire that razed the building. PHOTO: ODT FILES People who left a meeting in Roxburgh last week believing their overwhelming vote in favour meant the town’s entertainment centre would be rebuilt on the same site could be in for disappointment.
Julie Asher
Sailing to Antarctica ‘exciting, terrifying — but in the best way’ December 15, 2025
Royal Albatross Centre guide and educator Libby Manning is about to take a month off work on the wind-swept cliffs of Otago Peninsula to sail a 1911 tall ship, Barque Europa, across the Drake Passage to the wind-swept cliffs of the Antarctic Peninsula. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Going to Antarctica in the comfort of a modern-day […]
John Lewis
View mine decision needs more time December 15, 2025
A decision on the fast-tracked Bendigo-Ophir gold mine is better made in a slower lane than the government wants, according to the former judge in charge of proceedings.
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Legal action against building firm December 15, 2025
Master Builders has commenced legal proceedings against a Dunedin construction company that has been put into liquidation owing $850,000.
Tim Scott
OK sought to clean up war hero’s gravestone December 15, 2025
Otago Military Historical Group members Peter Trevathan (left) and Bernie Flaherty at Lieutenant-colonel Arthur Bauchop’s gravestone. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH A pair of military grave restorers are putting the call out to a Dunedin war hero’s family to get the go-ahead to refurbish his memorial.
Mark John
ODT quiz: December 16 December 15, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Tuesday, December 16.

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