December 2025

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

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 11, 2025

IRD v NBR subscription stand-off heats up; KFC creative pitch: A spicy advertising battle.http://dlvr.it/TPmKwB

Kitea Health closes $13m raise, lines up human trials in the US

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 10, 2025

Specialist Aussie funds back capital raise.http://dlvr.it/TPlGL8

Retailing Normans buying ex-Beca HQ; Seascape developer gives update; Ryman abandons Moondah; Waikato steel plant planned, Mowbray move – Property Insider

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 8, 2025

The last 2025 column, reporting on the billionaire Normans and a big building deal.http://dlvr.it/TPj5CK

Small Business: Bark to match the bite with Howler Hotdogs

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 7, 2025

Jo Williamson talks to Tom Raynel about her small business Howler Hotdogs.http://dlvr.it/TPh9F0

Finally NZ’s Paris Climate Agreement charade is as good as over – Heather du Plessis-Allan

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 6, 2025

OPINION: Nicola Willis has signalled New Zealand will not spend $23b overseas on trees.http://dlvr.it/TPgRYq

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. […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
Ben Uffindell
Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell
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
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
Ben Uffindell
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 […]
Ben Uffindell

South hit by snow, ice and thick, freezing fog June 24, 2026
The Crown Range was closed this morning due to heavy snow. Photo: MetService Major roads in parts of the South are closed or hazardous to drive on due to heavy snow, ice and thick, freezing fog.
ODT quiz: June 25 June 24, 2026
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Thursday, June 25.
Committee calls for racing bodies to unite ‘at pace’ June 24, 2026
Huge changes have been proposed for the New Zealand racing industry. Photo: Race Images South An independent committee has recommended sweeping changes to safeguard the future of the New Zealand racing industry.
Taieri crafters create for babies June 24, 2026
Members of Taieri Altrusa and Willowfield Outram proudly display the colourful quilts, bedding, and other items created for newborns and donated to Dunedin Hospital's NICU unit. Pictured are (from left) Taieri Altrusa members Margaret Munro, Glenda McGowan, Pip Pilling, Glenda Bryant, president Kath Burrows and Glenys Rickerby, Willowfield Outram members Margaret Stevens and Heather Hore, […]
Volunteers keep community safe June 24, 2026
Helping to keep the community safe is a labour of love for Mosgiel volunteer firefighters (from left) Firefighter Matthew Gregory, Senior Firefighter Amanda Bradley, and Qualified Firefighter Simon Greenall — a career firefighter. Photo: Brenda Harwood During National Volunteer Week, Fire and Emergency New Zealand celebrated the outstanding efforts of more than 11,800 volunteer firefighters in 590 […]
Science festival expansion driven by demand June 24, 2026
New Zealand International Science Festival associate director JennyChandler and director Jerome Cousins. Photo: Sam Henderson It will be "nanu nanu" to Nanofest after this year as the demand for showcasing science grows.
Sam Henderson
College to host Matariki celebration June 24, 2026
Taieri College kaitiaki of tikanga Māori and Pasifika Te Maio Tamati-Stirling is looking forward to welcoming all to the college. Photo: Sam Henderson An evening of music, dance and shared kai will bring the community together tomorrow.
Sam Henderson
Stythe taking fun to the final June 24, 2026
Steel defender Carys Stythe (centre) celebrates reaching the ANZ Premiership final with the team’s Invercargill crowd. The final is will be against her old team, the Northern Mystics, on Saturday. PHOTO: MICHAEL BRADLEY PHOTOGRAPHY Carys Stythe had some week.
Kayla Hodge
Exploring the lives of Shakespeare's ‘minor’ characters June 24, 2026
The aunt and niece creative duo of actor Sarah Entwistle (left) and director Kate Low. Photo: Alan Dove Photography Creating a new play bringing the lives of Shakespeare’s ‘minor’ characters to the fore has been a joyful family affair for an aunt and niece duo.
Show skewers the challenges of ageing June 24, 2026
Harriet Moir starts in the riotous one-woman show Nicola Cheeseman is Back!. Photo: Lara Macgregor Dunedin theatre company Hic Sunt Dracones (HSD) is back with an earthy, relatable one-woman show about ageing on your own terms.

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December 2025

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

Kitea Health closes $13m raise, lines up human trials in the US

Retailing Normans buying ex-Beca HQ; Seascape developer gives update; Ryman abandons Moondah; Waikato steel plant planned, Mowbray move – Property Insider

Small Business: Bark to match the bite with Howler Hotdogs

Finally NZ’s Paris Climate Agreement charade is as good as over – Heather du Plessis-Allan

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