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Keeping up with the ever-changing world has never been more important.

With our special Black Friday offer, give yourself, or someone you love, the opportunity to stay informed, be part of the conversation, and get the inside running on all the biggest news of the moment.

You can get access to New Zealand’s best journalism and subscribe to Herald Premium for the amazing rate of 99c a week for the first six months.

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Our digital subscriptions help Kiwis make sense of the fast-paced, ever-changing news cycle, from analysis of current events to in-depth investigations, absorbing features, and opinion pieces you won’t find anywhere else – on any device. Gold-standard stories from international publishers like the New York Times also help you broaden your perspective further. And a subscription helps support great local journalism. Here’s a snapshot sampling the length and breadth of our team’s coverage

• The making of Marokopa’s ‘monster’: Tom Phillips’ childhood, hobbies and descent
• How does your school rate? The NCEA results of nearly 500 colleges ranked against house prices
• How traders made $5.4m by flipping 71 Auckland properties
• Philip Polkinghorne: The moment lover Madison Ashton confronted him about wife Pauline Hanna’s death
• Inside the military unit where sexual assaults weren’t reported, drinking was out of hand and soldiers were bullied
• How the All Blacks have become the dumbest and dirtiest team in world rugby 
• Auckland dog daycare Pets & Pats fought for years to keep criminal charges against it suppressed
• Audrey Young’s Cabinet report card - rating NZ’s ministers

Our Viva team this month celebrated Auckland’s world-class dining scene, announcing the top 50 restaurants for 2025. It’s the season for festive celebrations, so if you want to find the finest wines to offer your guests – or give as Christmas gifts – Viva wine editor Dr Jo Burzynska can recommend 2025’s top 50 New Zealand wineries.

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If you need a breather, Premium subscribers can save stories to read later, offline via the app, or get stuck into our daily crosswords and puzzles. This special Black Friday offer ends on Monday, December 8, at 23.59.

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