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[ad_1] While some Kaikōura candidates have admitted “personal experience” with cannabis, only two will vote “yes” in next month’s referendum. Some 110 people watched six candidates answer questions in a pre-election debate at Biddy Kate’s Irish bar in Blenheim on Tuesday night. Bar owner and former Deputy Mayor Terry Sloan, …

[ad_1] Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua would not stand in the way of a possible move to Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic for Australian captain Caitlin Bassett. The great Bassett of the Diamonds finds herself in a tough spot with her Sydney-based Giants team at Super Netball Australia. The introduction …

[ad_1] Labor is talking about its chances of breaking National’s more than decade-long hold on Hamilton. The two women vying for prime minister returned to Waikato on Wednesday for campaign visits that included a bit of politics and a healthy slice of political star power. Jacinda Ardern, on her first …

[ad_1] The New South Wales government rushed to replace the New Zealand flag that flew over Sydney’s Anzac Bridge after an embarrassing mistake was discovered. The Anzac Bridge was named on Remembrance Day in 1998 in honor of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in World War I. The …

[ad_1] The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday his condition improved enough for him to be discharged and suggested a “full recovery” of the nerve agent was possible. Navalny, 44, spent 32 days in treatment at Berlin’s Charite hospital, 24 of which were in …

[ad_1] By RNZ’s Meriana Johnsen The fear and intimidation that University of Waikato professors have experienced when they denounce racism has prevented future students from going to university, the Maori Tertiary Students Association has said. Te Mana Ākonga, the Maori student association, is the latest group to send an open …

[ad_1] Quarantine now looks much more attractive to Wallabies coach Dave Rennie, who has praised the New Zealand government’s work ahead of his two Bledisloe Cup events in New Zealand. The Wallabies depart tomorrow for New Zealand, where they will enter the mandatory two-week isolation period, before the October 11-18 …

[ad_1] A former adviser to former National Party leader Todd Muller says Judith Collins should have been promoted to leadership earlier and calls Simon Bridges the “most unpopular high-ranking political figure in the English-speaking world.” Political commentator Matthew Hooton was one of Muller’s first advocates to roll Bridges, after a …

[ad_1] Its track record in eliminating Covid-19 and controlling a second outbreak has drawn praise for New Zealand around the world. Now the center-left Labor party, led by the popularly popular Jacinda Ardern, faces an election bolstered by its success in containing the virus, but darkened by the shadow of …

[ad_1] A two-bedroom condo in Lake Worth, Florida, looks modest from the outside. Inside, thousands of beer cans line walls and ceilings. The former owner, who died in June, made it his “mission in life” to wallpaper every part of the condo with empty cans of Anheuser-Busch’s flagship beer, Budweiser. …