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New Zealand
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Sanson fire: 'It will take time to get answers for the family'
22 Nov 2025Police are still investigating what caused the blaze that killed Goldie, Hugo and August Field.
Stevee Ormsby sentenced to six months' supervision for assaulting self-appointed parking warden
Serious crash shuts Matamata road
Pacific
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Critical assessment underway for PNG's conjoined twins by Aussie doctors
21 Nov 2025The parents of six-week-old Tom and Sawong are desperate for their boys to be surgically separated, despite previous medical advice against it.
Opposition leader calls for Samoan PM to resign over health concerns
'My mana reignited': Attendees leave world's largest indigenous education conference feeling inspired
Sport
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Black Caps lurch to one-day series sweep over West Indies
22 Nov 2025The NZ batting order buckled, but did not break in its pursuit of victory at Hamilton.
Formula One: Kiwi Liam Lawson qualifies sixth for Las Vegas Grand Prix
Phoenix lose home match to Macarthur FC
Politics
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Ngāpuhi 'insulted', as Te Pāti Māori leadership refuse to attend hui
22 Nov 2025Te Pāti Māori said they had been advised by "multiple rangatira of Te Tai Tokerau" not to attend "at this time". Audio
Former Labour minister Michael Wood to re-enter politics
Revealed: What the new Defence Force planes will look like
World
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Tony Robinson on Blackadder: 'I learned how to ride at the feet of those masters'
22 Nov 2025The British TV presenter and writer played Rowan Atkinson's "really, really stupid" servant Baldrick in the cult '80s sitcom.
Joan Jett was told girls didn't play electric guitar
‘Superman #1’ copy found in attic becomes most expensive comic ever sold
Comment & Analysis
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Dead rats and discord: What next in the Peters-Seymour stoush?
21 Nov 2025Analysis: Expired vermin are a built-in feature of MMP, as every party makes compromises, writes Craig McCulloch.
Did Plunket founder Truby King really believe in eugenics? History isn't that simple
A new index challenges common beliefs about drug use and harm in NZ
Local Democracy Reporting
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NZ's biggest regional park re-opens after 1080 pest control
21 Nov 2025The operation in Hūnua Ranges, Waharau and Whakatiwai began in August, and was completed in late October.
Concern mounts over Southland wilding pine threat
Cause of leak that sent treated wastewater into lake a mystery
In Depth
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Why are there so few rules for biodiversity-damaging cats?
22 Nov 2025The government seems uninterested in the problem, but there are many different people desperate to get cats under control - including a National Party MP.
'Stone cold killer' feral cats added to Predator Free 2050 strategy, Conservation Minister announces
Christopher Luxon said feral cats would be added as a target in Predator Free 2050 - but it hasn’t happened
Te Ao Māori
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Over 1000 schools reaffirm commitment to Treaty
21 Nov 2025It comes after the government removed Treaty obligations from the Education and Training Act.
Māori ethnic population nears one million
Te Pāti Māori turns down hui offer
Business
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Air New Zealand named world's safest airline for 2025
12:48 am todayThe airline also took out awards for innovation, sustainability and entertainment.
We're in Australia, can we come back and get NZ Super? - Ask Susan
Who's really paying for 'incredibly aggressive' cash back competition?
Country
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'I never thought I'd be called a poo hunter': Inside facial eczema study
22 Nov 2025Wairarapa sheep farmer Paul Crick is one of hundreds out collecting poo samples from his flock as part of a national study.
Country Life: Breeding the kiwifruit of the future
Country Life: Farmer flying high with agri drone venture
Environment
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NZ silent so far on climate summit push for a 'fossil fuels' roadmap
20 Nov 2025About 80 countries at this year's COP30 meeting want the world to develop a fossil fuel phase-out plan - but New Zealand is still considering whether to join them. Audio
Caulerpa invasion: 'Government isn't taking it as seriously as they need to'
Climate change minister defends weakened methane emissions target ahead of COP30
Media & Technology
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Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt named Podcast of the Year
21 Nov 2025A podcast that led to the discovery of one of New Zealand's oldest European artefacts has been named podcast of the Year at the NZ Podcast Awards.
What is workslop?
Top writers ruled out of NZ book awards due to AI covers
Identity
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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
16 Oct 2024How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
IndoNZ
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Warning over looming driver shortages following licence revocations
21 Nov 2025The Transport Agency revoked hundreds of commercial driving licences earlier this month after discovering false documentation that converted overseas licences to domestic equivalents.
Ballots to be examined amid Auckland voter fraud allegations
India trade deal will be a ‘game changer’, industry expert says