New Zealand Blog News Service

Gull, NPD merger should bring fuel prices down with low-cost business model – AA

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 28, 2025

The merged NPD-Gull group would control about 240 fuel sites nationwide.http://dlvr.it/TQ2qNs

Why you should consider investing outside of New Zealand – Mary Holm

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 27, 2025

OPINION: The NZ sharemarket makes up about 0.1% of all the shares in the world.http://dlvr.it/TQ2DJX

The cost of keeping principals: Pay packets at top private schools

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 26, 2025

One private school’s principal earns more than Cabinet ministers.http://dlvr.it/TQ1Ynt

Media Insider: Six media chief executives, six questions for 2026 – hear from the bosses of TVNZ, NZME, RNZ, Stuff, Sky TV, and MediaWorks

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 25, 2025

Their words – TVNZ, NZME, RNZ, Stuff, Sky & MediaWorks bosses on 2025 and what lies ahead.http://dlvr.it/TQ0w24

Rodd & Gunn’s new $10m+ four-storey global flagship in Melbourne heritage building

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 24, 2025

‘Level of detail and how each floor of the store works is incredible,’ says Mike Beagley.http://dlvr.it/TQ0G6p

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

ODT quiz: January 8 January 7, 2026
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Thursday, January 8.
Sports drink company natural progression January 7, 2026
Brother and sister Simon Kraak and Marewa Sutherland co-founded Pure Sports Nutrition in 2012 and have built it up to a fast-growing Christchurch business. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A fruitless search to find a natural sports nutrition drink became the starting point for a Christchurch brother and sister to build a business growing up to 60% a […]
Tim Cronshaw
Further inquiry needed: liquidators January 7, 2026
Chris Swann. PHOTO: ODT FILES Liquidators of a property development business, owned by Dunedin businessman Chris Swann, have identified areas of concern that require further investigation.
Sally Rae
$50 for levy hand-drawn in protest January 7, 2026
A climate activist attempted to pay a court levy with a hand-drawn $50 note in a publicity stunt.
Felicity Dear
Magic moments: January 8 January 7, 2026
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Rapist still presents ‘average’ risk January 7, 2026
The Otago Corrections Facility. PHOTO: ODT FILES A Dunedin man who violated two women still presents an "average" risk of further sexual offending, the Parole Board has heard.
Rob Kidd
Uncertainty hangs over Venezuela January 7, 2026
Workers sort waste at a recycling centre in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday as daily life continues after the United States launched a strike on Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. PHOTO: REUTERS Here's what’s probably happening in Venezuela today.
Melting street tar creating mess January 7, 2026
The surface of the road in a section of Doon St, in Waverley, Dunedin, can get sticky if temperatures rise above 21°C, frustrated resident Bruce Corbett says. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Residents of a Dunedin street tired of getting tar on their carpets and in their cars hope an effective remedy is imminent.
Grant Miller
Queenstown busy January 7, 2026
Queenstown’s waterfront. — Otago Witness, 5.1.1926 Queenstown has been revelling in blue skies, brilliant sunshine and midsummer warmth. Every day dawns fine, and at the close of each we can refer to it as "a perfect day."
Hocken collections January 7, 2026
During 2025 staff at Hocken Collections added thousands of images to the Digital Collections website, most of them never previously seen online. The site can be accessed at hocken.recollect.co.nz

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Gull, NPD merger should bring fuel prices down with low-cost business model – AA

Why you should consider investing outside of New Zealand – Mary Holm

The cost of keeping principals: Pay packets at top private schools

Media Insider: Six media chief executives, six questions for 2026 – hear from the bosses of TVNZ, NZME, RNZ, Stuff, Sky TV, and MediaWorks

Rodd & Gunn’s new $10m+ four-storey global flagship in Melbourne heritage building

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