Pride doesn’t pay for water pipes
Pride doesn’t pay for water pipes
Queenstown needs to be equipped to be a true tourism mecca Nick Leggett writes.
Opinion
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Stanley meets his rescuers
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Stanley meets his rescuers
The lad, Stanley Morrison, who endured four days of hunger while lost in the scrub at Otepopo some time ago, was in Oamaru last Sunday afternoon with his mother and father.
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Boot camp spin
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Boot camp spin
Portraying the controversial military-style academy (MSA) pilot for serious youth offenders as a success is a step too far.
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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: nitrate, electric vehicles and students
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Letters to the Editor: nitrate, electric vehicles and students
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including nitrate contamination of freshwater, media reporting on an "electric bus fatal fire", and admiration of our students.
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Another day means another massacre somewhere
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Another day means another massacre somewhere
The ceasefire in Gaza, however shaky, is freeing up some bandwidth for the world’s media to fret about other ongoing massacres
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Tragedy in suburb
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Tragedy in suburb
A ghastly tragedy occurred at Kaikorai shortly after 8 o’clock yesterday morning, when a mother staggered into a neighbour’s house at 8.20am to say that she had killed her children.
Now is the time to act on climate change, not to do nothing
Now is the time to act on climate change, not to do nothing
Despite what the government says climate change is not going away, John Drummond writes.
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Letters to the Editor: mining, fairness, and negativity
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Letters to the Editor: mining, fairness, and negativity
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the golden goose of mining, tiresome criticism of councillors and politicians, and negativity in the media.
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Getting awfully warm in here
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Getting awfully warm in here
Unlike Christmas, goodwill and celebrations can be harder to find at the annual, global, climate-change bash.
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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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Attention given to mounting home prices
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Attention given to mounting home prices
It's little wonder property-price stories grab attention.
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The secret diary of . . . The Chase NZ
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The secret diary of . . . The Chase NZ
My name is Paul Henry.
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Regulatory Standards Bill welcome oversight or a wet fart?
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Regulatory Standards Bill welcome oversight or a wet fart?
As you would expect on most pieces of legislation which Parliament considers, the government and the Opposition take diametrically contrary viewpoints.
In living memory . . .
In living memory . . .
The five team members of the Otago Girls’ High School smallbore shoot team who won the 1985 Whitcoulls Winchester national secondary schools' smallbore rifle shooting championships.
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At the Savoy
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At the Savoy
Dancing time is now almost any time at the Savoy Cabaret.
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Letters to the Editor: Call to ban fireworks and rugby's TMO
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Letters to the Editor: Call to ban fireworks and rugby's TMO
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including a call to ban fireworks, the right to wear the Palestinian scarf, and is it time to red card rugby's TMO?
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Well meaning and well understood
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Well meaning and well understood
Teach your children well is sound advice, but defining the word "well" is fraught with problems.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
Listening to a choir in my head where everyone sings a different song
Listening to a choir in my head where everyone sings a different song
Neurodiversity is not a problem to fix but a facet of the divine image to honour, Graham Redding writes.