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Holding on to hope
The countdown to any new year comes with mixed emotions.
Opinion
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.
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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs
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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including getting our debt crisis under control, the ethics of dumpster diving, and the argument for drug reform in NZ.
What price preservation of endangered geckos?
What price preservation of endangered geckos?
Why not sell jewelled geckos Gerrard Eckhoff writes.
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School marks jubilee one year late
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School marks jubilee one year late
For over 50 years the Clinton School has stood at the northern end of the town, and when its jubilee was celebrated yesterday many acquaintances were renewed.
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The tricky job of electoral reform
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The tricky job of electoral reform
In the last sitting week of the year Parliament passed a grab bag of law reforms, some of which could be consequential in next year’s election.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.
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Cricket for 160 years — the timeless game at Patearoa
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Cricket for 160 years — the timeless game at Patearoa
There's not much that can beat an afternoon in the sun watching the cricket. It’s a timeless pleasure; the sun having been around for a while and cricket going back to the 1500s or even earlier.
Even AI acknowledges its limitations
Even AI acknowledges its limitations
Working with AI has been an eye-opener, Sir Ian Taylor writes.
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Cyclists looking back
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Cyclists looking back
The two-day professional sports meeting of the New Zealand Athletic and Cycling Union was commenced yesterday at the Caledonian Ground.
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Health targets miss bullseye
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Health targets miss bullseye
With election year looming, the government has some way to go to convince voters our creaking public health system has turned a corner.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.
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Letters to the Editor: mining, climate and cycleways
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Letters to the Editor: mining, climate and cycleways
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including National's position on the Bendigo mine, emissions targets and South Dunedin, and yet another cycleway.
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And a very happy Hogmanay to you too
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And a very happy Hogmanay to you too
New Year’s Eve in the Balchin family household has never loomed particularly large.
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Putin, Trump deal in derzhavnost, gangland respect
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Putin, Trump deal in derzhavnost, gangland respect
The Russian word "derzhavnost" is usually translated as "great power status", but the real meaning is closer to the gangland concept of "respect".
How lawyers turn routine legal work into a luxury few can afford
How lawyers turn routine legal work into a luxury few can afford
High charges for routine legal work are a barrier to justice, Bruce Curtis writes.
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Whalers where they wanted to be
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Whalers where they wanted to be
The Ross Sea whaling fleet has succeeded in getting through into clear water after a period of 38 days in the pack.
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The secret diary of... 2025
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The secret diary of... 2025
I was enjoying a boozy lunch the other day with a couple of similarly wizened journos who were likewise in their pomp last century.
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Adding up stray Xmas pounds and pennies
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Adding up stray Xmas pounds and pennies
It is easy to overlook a few stray dollars amid the seasonal splurge on Christmas gifts and Boxing Day sales.
In living memory
In living memory
The Glen, near Carisbrook, was hard hit by flooding after a deluge in late December 1985.