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New Zealand
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'The generosity is amazing' - Tucking in the Christmas spirit
25 Dec 2025The Rimutaka Lions Club's annual Christmas lunch today is a tradition running for nearly four decades.
Person critically injured after vehicle rollover
Most of NZ’s flowering plants grow nowhere else – and Christmas falls in peak blooming season
Pacific
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Calls for UK's role to be considered in sinking of Manawanui
24 Dec 2025The former Samoa Prime Minister confirmed the navy ship had been surveying the south coast as part of security for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting and King Charles.
Three Pacific ambassadors recalled by the U.S. Department of State
Vanuatu teachers to return to classrooms in 2026 after multi-billion vatu government settlement
Sport
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Liam Lawson raises more than $50k for breast cancer research
24 Dec 2025Lawson's pit-stop from the racing circuit to drive laps in Cromwell drew thousands of motorsport enthusiasts and drive to survive fans to the circuit on Tuesday.
In review: New Zealand sporting highs and lows in 2025
Mighty Springboks continue to set the standards in test rugby
Politics
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India free trade agreement excludes dairy, but that could change - minister
New Zealand could continue to see improvements for the dairy industry under its Free Trade Agreement with India, the trade minister says.
Trade Minister Todd McClay confident Labour will support India Free Trade Agreement
Emails reveal Marlon Williams, Paul Goldsmith Treaty principles exchange
World
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'Do not attempt to travel' - Warnings as torrential rains hit Los Angeles
Authorities warned motorists to stay off roads while urging residents in flood zones to evacuate or shelter in place.
Watch: In Christmas surprise, Princess Catherine and Charlotte play piano duet
DOJ says it has found over a million additional documents potentially related to Epstein
Comment & Analysis
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JD Vance tries to have it both ways on Nick Fuentes and antisemitism
23 Dec 2025Analysis - Vance could inherit a conservative movement that is increasingly riven over antisemitism and conspiracy theories in its midst.
Parliament's year in numbers
Australia defeats words with actions to outclass England and romp to Ashes glory
Local Democracy Reporting
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The town that opened its doors to Polish refugee children
25 Dec 2025It's been eight decades since hundreds of children found a new home in Pahīatua during WWII.
More hornets expected over summer, public urged to remain vigilant
What is Local Democracy Reporting?
In Depth
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Integrity probe into Yachting NZ drags into second year
The Sport Integrity Commission's first major investigation, triggered by dozens of complaints about Yachting NZ, remains unfinished a year on.
A permit for trapping feral cats may get much easier to obtain after a U-turn by DOC
Lost in transition: The businesses trapped by New Zealand’s energy crisis
Te Ao Māori
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Māori Land Court cannot rule on Porotī Springs water
25 Dec 2025A long-running effort by hapū trustees to have their customary rights to Porotī Springs legally recognised has hit another hurdle.
Study shows the experience of Māori grappling with 'te reo trauma'
'Our sense of identity': What New Zealand and Georgia have in common
Business
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Gull, NPD merger will drive down petrol prices, companies say
The companies have 240 sites between them, and a combined buying power of one billion litres of fuel a year.
'Easier to get growth out of an economic hole' - Did we survive 2025?
Issues with IKEA orders and delivery flagged
Country
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ECan 'put on notice' over rule-making for discharges
24 Dec 2025The High Court stopped short of ordering the regional council to change the rule relating to the discharge of nitrates because of the amount of time that has lapsed.
Country Life: On the job with Whanganui River's rural postie
Country Life: Farming trees the Tāmata Hauhā way
Environment
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DoC warns dog owners after rare fairy tern nests disturbed
23 Dec 2025Only about 40 adult tara iti survive in the wild, and of those just 10 are breeding females.
Water fight: Farmers strive to limit cows' environmental footprint
Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ's glaciers, research shows
Media & Technology
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The best games we played in 2025
16 Dec 2025More than 200 titles dropped this year, here are some we loved playing the most.
It’s not you - some fonts feel different
Tova O'Brien announced as new Breakfast presenter
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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Celebrating Christmas with Indian culinary favourites
25 Dec 2025Kiwi Indians swap ham and pavlova for spiced feasts, keeping festive food traditions from home alive.
2025 in review: A year when New Zealand-India relations took off
Indian community theatre group Prayas marks 20 years on stage