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Nato is dead: long live Nato 2.0

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio leaves after speaking at the Munich Security Conference. PHOTO:...

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Nato is dead: long live Nato 2.0

Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health.

The value of people who choose Q’town

QLDC Mayor John Glover presents a mayoral citation to Abby O’Neil and Carroll Joynes for their...

The value of people who choose Q’town

One thing you notice living in Queenstown is that a lot of the people who end up shaping this place were not actually born here.

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Can extreme become the new normal?

A farm worker wades in to rescue stranded sheep after huge downpours at Teddington, Banks...

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Can extreme become the new normal?

Barely a couple of months go by these days without a significant storm battering some part of the country.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Town Belt, roads and Trump

Not a promoter of happiness. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Letters to the Editor: Town Belt, roads and Trump

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the controversial Town Belt trial, spending ratepayer's money on roads, and Trump's thoughts on utilitarianism.

At university, dare to be wise in a fragile world

Another academic year starts. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

At university, dare to be wise in a fragile world

Education is about more than a degree, Graham Redding writes.

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Lenglen overcomes Wills

Suzanne Lenglen ready to drive (left) and shaking hands with Helen Wills after defeating her 6-3,...

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Lenglen overcomes Wills

Cannes, February 16 (received February 17, at 5.5pm): The score in the match between Mademoiselle Lenglen and Miss Helen Wills was 6-3, 8-6, in favour of the former.

We must make women's safety paramount

The law offers women little protection from violent men. Photo: Getty Images

We must make women's safety paramount

Current laws to protect women are inadequate, Christopher Horan writes.

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Go with the Flo

Thousands of students party on Leith St on the Saturday night between Flat O Week and Orientation...

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Go with the Flo

While for most of Dunedin the usual post-holiday routines of work and school are now back in full swing, in the north end of town the work year is just starting.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Patearoa experts may have found perfect All Blacks coach

The wheels on this coach went round and round. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Patearoa experts may have found perfect All Blacks coach

The talk got round to rugby coaches and, of course, everyone was an expert.

Arsenic, cyanide and the science

Santana Minerals Ltd chief executive Damian Spring at the firm’s proposed Bendigo-Ophir mine site...

Arsenic, cyanide and the science

People need to understand the fundamentals of modern mining, Santana Minerals Ltd chief executive Damian Spring writes. The loudest voices against the Bendigo...

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Awards to Guides for brave act

Nelson girl guides, Jean Sanders (left) and Jean Jones, were awarded silver medals for saving a...

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Awards to Guides for brave act

Jean Jones and Jean Sanders, of the Port Nelson Girl Guides Company, who last year saved a lady from drowning in the Motueka River, have each been awarded a silver medal.

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At the market’s mercy

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At the market’s mercy

Prospective patients and those who work at Mercy Hospital may be nervous about last week’s news it is on the market.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: ORC, climate and Trump

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Letters to the Editor: ORC, climate and Trump

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including how bad prose doesn't mean bad policy, what politicians think about climate, and bad news for Trump haters.

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Who won or lost the correct colonisation question

Leonard C Mitchell’s painting reconstructing the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Image: ODT files

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Who won or lost the correct colonisation question

Was the colonisation of New Zealand a good thing or a bad thing?

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Road workers busy in Port

Port Chalmers, viewed from the Robert Falcon Scott monument looking towards Portobello. — Otago...

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Road workers busy in Port

At the monthly meeting of the Port Chalmers Council, the Works Committee reported that the principal work of the past three weeks had been the new concrete channel in George St.

Here is what’s so special about Central

Cycling in Central Otago. PHOTO: LINDY DAVIS

Here is what’s so special about Central

Tenure review transformed Central Otago, Tony Perrett writes.

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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges

Photo: Supplied/ NZ Human Rights Commission

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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges

To them that hath shall (more) be given is generally a reliable guide, but it doesn’t work if the beneficiaries are too stupid to take advantage of the gift.

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