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A decent bloke and decent PM
Jim Bolger once embarked on an election campaign calling for a "decent society".
Opinion
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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: lights, pines and birds
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Letters to the Editor: lights, pines and birds
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the light in Central Otago's night sky, unwanted wilding pines, and the critically endangered native falcon.
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The secret diary of... Luxon's last hours
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The secret diary of... Luxon's last hours
By Steve Braunias
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A burst of colour
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A burst of colour
To-day the Otago Witness Annual makes a welcome reappearance, and is in all respects worthy of comparison with the best publications of its kind.
In living memory
In living memory
It may be powered by the remains of a Vespa scooter but this wee machine can do 55kmh and that is just in third gear.
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Thank you very much, thank you very very very very much
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Thank you very much, thank you very very very very much
Back in 1942, Greer Garson won the Best Actress Academy Award for her work in Mrs Miniver.
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Varied price of southern product questioned
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Varied price of southern product questioned
When a "disgusted" shopper highlighted what appeared to be an excessive supermarket markup, Civis decided to investigate.
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Pig welfare weasel words
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Pig welfare weasel words
In another startling example of poor process, the government is rushing through an amendment to the Animal Welfare Act relating to pigs.
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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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Special edition of ‘Witness’
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Special edition of ‘Witness’
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Life moves on, one repaired stuffed soft toy at a time
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Life moves on, one repaired stuffed soft toy at a time
On Saturday morning, I sat in the Blueskin Library, carefully repairing Hoppity.
When our own cells turn against us
When our own cells turn against us
University of Otago student Nidhi Bhagi explains her research into aggressive breast cancer. She is the winner of this year’s Otago Medical School Research Society Science Writing Prize, and part...
The manifold earthly and spiritual complexities surrounding generative AI
The manifold earthly and spiritual complexities surrounding generative AI
The rise of generative AI makes us ask what it means to be human, Katie Marcar writes.
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Internal ructions, external ramifications
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Internal ructions, external ramifications
What are we to make of the unedifying sight of Te Pāti Māori disemboweling itself in public?
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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: elections, tar pits and employment
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Letters to the Editor: elections, tar pits and employment
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including a council of fair and reasonable representatives, the Oamaru gas works site, and the value of employment.
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Nosing out my specific memory of 1988
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Nosing out my specific memory of 1988
The year 1988 was a leap year.
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Any port in ‘Storm’
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Any port in ‘Storm’
Two mishaps occurred near the Wanganui Harbour entrance last week-end.
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A bubble which is about to burst
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A bubble which is about to burst
"The thing that comforts me,"