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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
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 […]
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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
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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: December 10 December 9, 2025
Test your local and general knowledge by taking the Otago Daily Times quiz for Wednesday, December 10.
Military career provides platform for leadership December 9, 2025
New IrrigationNZ chairman Andrew Mockford (left) visited the Grand Coulee Dam in the United States earlier this year with chief executive Karen Williams and director Mark Saunders. PHOTO: IRRIGATION NEW ZEALAND Serving the air force took Andrew Mockford around the world and gave him skills to become the new head of irrigation’s industry body, writes Tim Cronshaw.
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Drones used in fight against bovine Tb December 9, 2025
Pilot Chris Scoggins, of Interpine Pilots, holds aloft a new weapon in the fight against possums, watched by Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard (centre) and Interpine colleague Sam West. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Rocklands Station has plenty of places a possum can run to, but if a new trial proves successful the pests will have nowhere they […]
Mike Houlahan
Insight into nitrate-busting wetlands December 9, 2025
Farmer and certified nutrient management adviser Lee Baldwin and dairy farmer Murray Wards in front of the wetlands on his property at the Gore Catchment Group Open Day in Waimumu, Gore, yesterday. Photo: Ella Scott-Fleming A Gore dairy farmer says the $5000 wetlands built on his property have lowered nitrates in its creek by 30%.
Ella Scott-Fleming
Weather plays ball for show December 9, 2025
A bovine parade was led by Wyndham A&P Society president Brooke Cameron. Photo: Gerrit Doppenberg It was a huge day out at the Wyndham A&P Show on Saturday, with hundreds flocking to enjoy the festivities and celebrate agricultural success.
Gerrit Doppenberg
Locale heart of exhibition December 9, 2025
Paintings by Robin Eden on show at the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre art gallery, alongside the works of Paula Gray, in Mandeville, until the end of January. Photos: Ella Scott-Fleming Two painters who both moved further south following the Christchurch earthquake have reunited for an exhibition detailing the scenery and wildlife of Otago and Southland.
Ella Scott-Fleming
‘Red’ explored in exhibition December 9, 2025
Rob McLeod, Swimming Against the Tide, 1990s and 2005, oil on plywood, Collection of Eastern Southland Gallery, gifted by the artist 2013. Gore art lovers will be seeing red at the Eastern Southland Gallery this summer.
$270m meat merger complete December 9, 2025
Willie Wiese. PHOTO: SUPPLIED Alliance Group has formally completed its new transaction with Irish company Dawn Meats.
Weather plays ball for Wyndham show December 9, 2025
Joshua Broughton, 14, competes in the equestrian section at the Wyndham A&P show on his horse Raupo. PHOTOS: GERRIT DOPPENBERG It was a huge day out at the Wyndham A&P Show on Saturday, with hundreds flocking to enjoy the festivities and celebrate agricultural success.
Gerrit Doppenberg
‘Bucky’ the bull event a drawcard December 9, 2025
It was "Bucking Good Fun" at the Riversdale Tavern, with rider Lou Stevenson giving it a go on "Bucky" the mechanical bull on Friday night. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED BY BEV WEST. Riversdale Hotel came alive on Friday night, with a bull ridin’ spectacle bringing the hootin’ and hollerin’ to the pub.
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