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Editorial: Lochte's tall story deserves a gong

If medals were awarded for brainlessness, Ryan Lochte would be on the podium.

Editorial: Olympians lift nation's medal bar to new heights

After a nervous start, we got there. Yesterday New Zealand achieved its record haul of medals, eclipsing 1988 in Seoul and London four years ago.

Urban limit helps make region liveable place

COMMENT: Sometimes, a really effective policy simply doesn't get the appreciation it deserves.

Editorial: Path to drug reform not an easy one

The Prime Minister is unmoved by a poll for the Drug Foundation showing most New Zealanders now support legalising, or at least decriminalising, cannabis.

Editorial: Toxic tap water inexcusable anywhere in NZ

How could a thousand people fall ill anywhere in New Zealand from drinking tap water?

Editorial: Sevens should be known as All Blacks

After the disappointment of the All Black Sevens at the Olympics this week, some rugby fans were suggesting they should lose that title.

Games should be enjoyed even in loss

Despite everything, the Olympic Games are working their magic.

Editorial: Tweaks will add balance to urban plan

The report of the Independent Hearings Panel on the proposed Auckland Unitary Plan injected a good dose of realism into the plan.

Country folk know true values of NZ

For the past two weeks, reporter David Fisher and photographer Mark Mitchell have taken us on a journey through New Zealand as it is today.

Editorial: Tribunal case holds hope

New Zealand's prison muster is closing in on 10,000 inmates, about the population of Greymouth.

Editorial: Predator purge best hope for precious fauna

Predators have a price tag. According to a University of Auckland study, the cost of ridding New Zealand of pests over 50 years is about $9 billion.

Editorial: Failure to ban Russia blights Olympic name

We are going to see Russians winning medals and an Olympic movement in disgrace.

Editorial: Time world took Trump very seriously

The Republican Party in the United States conferred its nomination for President on a man of doubtful political pedigree and unpredictable intentions.

Editorial: Numbers on cannabis speak for themselves

A Treasury official suggested the Government could save more than $500 million a year legalising the popular drug.

Editorial: Trumps find bright side to plagiarised speech

Plagiarism is bad form. Campuses throw out undergraduates caught cribbing lines. But that's not the way it works in Donald Trump's world.

NZ need not fear calling steel inquiry

Having once been too reliant on one export market, NZ does not want to be in that position again, whether the market is post-Brexit Britain or China.