Opinion
Top talent on display
South Canterbury Drama League's new show Showstoppers 2 covers music from range of stage shows.
Music to a trainspotter's ears
The $50,000 grant to investigate reinstating the Christchurch-Invercargill passenger rail service is music to my ears.
Envappy for those not at catpacity
I've had a linguistic epiphany in the last week, but I'm trying not to get over-emojical about it.
Reid's prison marriage beyond distasteful
OPINION: Liam Reid got married in Auckland's Paremoremo Prison on Tuesday morning. Let that sink in for a while.
Chasing down a refund gone wrong
I've just received news of a tax refund from the IRD. That's good news, isn't it?
Holding thumbs you don't have clunkies
It was an icy morning and the bed was all too cosy, but I had to wallydrag myself from its captivatingly comforting grip.
Common themes to global challenge
Nuffield scholar Ryan O'Sullivan shares his observations after exploring the state of global agriculture.
Seven-second rule is a myth
OPINION: Today's subject is something else high on many people's priority list – sex.
Defalcation may lead to absquatulation
OPINION: Ever done one of those exercises where you're asked what historical character you most wish you could have been?
What does Britain's election mean here?
What are the lessons from Britain for New Zealand's opposition parties ahead of the coming election?
New take on old words
OPINION: Dongle or dowager? Try out these neologisms for a new take on the meanings of words.
Editorial: We are our own best filters
EDITORIAL: The "white tangata whenua" story has highlighted society's filter problem.
Time for Brian to meet Bryan
OPINION: Disappointing a group of schoolkids isn't the kind of thing I enjoy doing.
Empathy on the endangered list?
OPINION: Are we in danger of seeing the extinction of empathy in our lifetime?
Flights, shipping affected by fog
Fog has impacted Timaru flights and shipping movements for the second time in three days.
Time for tourists to pay up
OPINION: NZ mayors are desperate for government financial help to cope with freedom campers, but ratepayers are footing the bill.
Immigration's tired tune
Three Dog Night's hit song was reprised as Grant Shimmin considered the furore over a Winston Peters press release.
Taking a canal on Capone's boat
I've just returned from an overseas trip and I didn't attempt to smuggle illicit substances into the countries I visited.
Recognising the value of the vital
It seems to me that as a species we have a real problem in assigning value appropriately.
Is a Sunday without shopping so hard?
It's a gripe of mine that comes around as regularly as Easter.
Kids pay price for our stupidity
OPINION: Truth was abandoned as a Timaru school revealed it was withdrawing from an immunisation programme.
