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4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (595+ words) Gore teenagers are at odds over whether a social media ban for people under the age of 16 is needed. Some who supported the ban said it would allow for more person-to-person contact, and would reduce some of the pressure social…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (408+ words) Legislation is progressing to allow rural workers to use their KiwiSaver funds to buy their first home. In a joint statement, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said the KiwiSaver (First Home or Farm) Amendment Bill was introduced last week. “Many farm…...

6+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1291+ words) Three of the Government's nine key targets risk not being met, the latest update shows. The 218,500 people receiving Jobseeker benefits remains significantly higher than the 140,000 target, and education targets remain elusive. In health, shorter wait times in emergency departments is…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago   (258+ words) Fancy a lecture in a bar? Bar patrons will get just that with 20 boffins from Canterbury University hosting talks on topics ranging from the effects of microplastics and warning signs of volcanic eruptions to the impact of artificial intelligence on…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (370+ words) More than $240,000 was raised in Queenstown on Saturday night, to support the translocation of kiwi pukupuku (little spotted kiwi) to Fiordland. The RealNZ Conservation Ball — dubbed ‘A Night for Nature’ — this year raised a total of $240,675 on the night, the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (404+ words) Great Tales of Aotearoa Reviewed by Jim Sullivan More than 40 years ago, Tom Clarke was compiling a Today in History New Zealand resource for broadcasters and ended up with 4500 two- or three-sentence bites of our past. At the same time,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (261+ words) Rural communities are being urged by Environment Canterbury to stay vigilant for nassella tussock plants as spring approaches in a bid to halt any new infestations before they become established. While the invasive pest grass remains concentrated in parts of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (308+ words) As an astronomer, I like to imagine I know what the sky is doing. The sky, however, regularly produces evidence to the contrary. A little after midnight last Sunday, Middlemarch lay under a bright nearly full moon, some untidy cloud…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (537+ words) Restoring ecosystems is the work of decades but there are opportunities to identify the wins along the way, Manaia Pearmain-Fenton writes. In an 1894 edition of the Otago Daily Times, Aparata Renata observed of the kakaruai, or native South Island robin:…...