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Lorde's touching message to cyclone victims at first NZ show

The star kicked off her NZ tour with a message for her Napier and Hawke's Bay fans.

Chris Hipkins vs Christopher Luxon - a personality analysis

OPINION: Scrutiny of the two leaders' word choices reveals where the race may be won.

Letters: Forestry slash, intensive housing, disaster politics, and supporting industry

OPINION: Letters on Air NZ profits, National, housing, infrastructure and looters.

Whangārei MP on priorities for the Government post-cyclone

Emily Henderson thanks those that chipped in to help during Cyclone Gabrielle,

Opinion: Where was the warning for Hawke’s Bay?

OPINION: Our editorial on the unanticipated catastrophe that hit the region.

Chlöe Swarbrick: Climate change taking greatest toll on poorer Kiwis

Our poorer communities are the ones bearing the brunt of our climate changed reality.

Richard Prebble: Govt must stand back and let locals guide cyclone recovery

Wellington-based Finance Minister is the wrong person to direct rebuilding effort.

MAFS wife’s payback for groom’s insult

One MAFS husband has been slapped down after making an awful remark to his crushed wife.

John MacDonald: Show us you care, commissioner

OPINION: Commissioner sticking to the lines about reported crime being less than normal.

Simon Wilson: Wild weather and wobbly ideas

Despite an apparent consensus, the climate is still beset with confusion and denialism.

Opinion: Bruce Willis, my father, and the decision of a lifetime

New York Times: Ronald Reagan's daughter reflects on her father's Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

Sideswipe: Recliner declined

A daily column looking at humorous, satirical and simply strange news.

Jarrod Gilbert: Corrections recruits put to the test during lengthy process

Jarrod Gilbert on Corrections recruitment process.

Letters: Change just starting, support for families, building better, Three Waters, and supermarkets

OPINION: Wayne Brown, Black Caps, Labour's legacy, and Fran O'Sullivan.

Cyclone Gabrielle: Responding to the trauma

OPINION: New Zealanders will be affected by this disaster, here's how to cope.

Editorial: Challenges and questions ahead after Gabrielle

How will improvements be paid for? And how do we build back better?

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Hipkins doing job like it’s been 25 months, not 25 days

A crisis always favours the incumbent

Liam Dann: Cyclone's cruel blow - how it will impact the economy

OPINION: Fallout from these weather events will change New Zealand's economic story.