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Letters: Petrol cheaper in Bay
On returning to Whanganui and NZ$2.18/2.19 a litre, one could only be incredulous.
Letters: Can our city take the strain?
A councillor has a responsibility to be reasoned and legitimate without scaremongering.
Big Science: Are Pacific people predisposed to gout?
Can higher rates of gout and type 2 diabetes in Pacific people be put down to evolution?
Most common surname in New Zealand revealed
Ask someone what the most common surname in NZ is and invariably the answer is Smith.
Sick St John finances a risk for ambulances
St John service cuts would include longer wait times for ambulances, fewer paramedics.
OneRoof report: First home buyers dominate market
Castlecliff is top selling Whanganui suburb
Whanganui skills gap holding back business growth
Skills gaps are keeping many of our businesses from expanding to their full potential.
Report critical over lack of action on dire state of public hospitals
Specialists say they're "suffering" and warn hospitals have reached a tipping point.
Council: Rising seas could force Dargaville move to higher ground
Dargaville's town centre may need higher ground to survive global warming.
Liam Dann: Busting New Zealand's ageing population myth
Is NZ's population really ageing - new data shows immigration may have changed our future.
Opinion: $6.6m cycleway shows Whangārei's coming of age
Comment: Whangārei is growing up and ditching the trainer wheels.
National Party could take new Flat Bush electorate - academics
A proposed new electorate in South Auckland may swing blue.
Life inside prison - the degrading grind of life behind bars
Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis: Inmates must be treated like human beings.
'Disheartening, stressful and unsettling': Transitional housing stays
The government has spent more than $9 million on transitional housing in Tauranga.
Booming Pāpāmoa: Growing suburb showing no signs of slowing down
But just how big has the beachside town grown?
What does the 'average' Kiwi look like today?
As New Zealand's population nears five million, our demographics have changed.
Mayor and councillors sworn in
Climate change and rising population to challenge Whangārei District councillors.
Escape from Iraq invasion inspired economic focus on the vulnerable
Having teenage years disrupted by war influenced the research of economist Gail Pacheco.
How can NZ prevent another measles epidemic?
'Innovative new thinking' needed to prevent future measles epidemic in NZ, expert says.
Northland retirement villages booming
A $60m retirement village planned for Whangārei gets the green light from councils.
Chinese app allows data access to 100 million users' phones
The app enables authorities to retrieve all data and can even activate an audio recorder.
Local Focus: Equity for Māori is core issue for Whanganui DHB
A new holistic approach to health for Whanganui DHB. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
Could the cure to smoking be found in... smoke?
Compounds in tobacco smoke might ironically prove key to stubbing out the harmful habit.
Liam Dann: When NZ mortgage rates hit 8.75%
COMMENT: When the HOS launched, the economy was booming but confidence was also low.
On our knees: The surging surgery costs blamed on obesity crisis
Each publicly-funded surgery costs about $20,000.
Why NZ could be humanity's 'lifeboat' in an extinction
NZ could serve as an "ark" to reboot civilisation if a deadly pandemic swept the planet.
New residents wax lyrical about the beauty of Northland
Newcomers to Northland talk about what the region offers.
Staff squeeze: Fewer teachers given to Auckland's schools
53 per cent of schools have been given fewer teachers in 2020 than they have now.
Letters: Lunches will feed bad habits
Between the developed and developing worlds we have two different population problems
Editorial: Generation Anxious reaches out for help
We say: Each new generation struggles with stress, it seems this one is different.
Racism cuts Māori out of local elections, says Far North mayoral candidate
Racism claim: Far North council is "white man, white man, white woman, white man".
34,500 new homes planned for South Auckland
Drury and Pukekohe to grow by more than the population of Palmerston North.