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Ben Kepes on immigration: Don't let Covid take us back to the past

Let's honour our past, but do so by embracing what, and who, New Zealand is today.

Liam Dann: NZ faces big choice on immigration - are we ready?

For better or worse, immigration has been the magic ingredient in NZ's economic growth.

Editorial: Five million Kiwis can't be wrong

Editorial: Great New Zealanders have been born at each million milestone - who's next?

Population milestone - Baby Odette could be No. 5 million

Odette Deane was born in March - Stats NZ says our population hit 5 million that month.

NZ's population hits 5 million

It took just 17 years to add one million people after hitting 4 million in 2003. Video / File

Anarchy or lifesavers? Face-to-face at the Covid roadblocks

Tiny communities with mass graves - the real story behind community roadblocks.

'It always came in summer': 95yo reflects on NZ epidemics past

With the advent of vaccines, epidemics have faded from memory. But we've been here before.

Coronavirus: 'Testing woefully inadequate' as criteria widened

More people can get tested under new criteria, but doctor says it's still not enough.

OneRoof report: First home buyers dominate market

Castlecliff is top selling Whanganui suburb

Whanganui skills gap holding back business growth

Skills gaps are keeping many of our businesses from expanding to their full potential.

Report critical over lack of action on dire state of public hospitals

Specialists say they're "suffering" and warn hospitals have reached a tipping point.

Council: Rising seas could force Dargaville move to higher ground

Dargaville's town centre may need higher ground to survive global warming.

Liam Dann: Busting New Zealand's ageing population myth

Is NZ's population really ageing - new data shows immigration may have changed our future.

Opinion: $6.6m cycleway shows Whangārei's coming of age

Comment: Whangārei is growing up and ditching the trainer wheels.

National Party could take new Flat Bush electorate - academics

A proposed new electorate in South Auckland may swing blue.

Life inside prison - the degrading grind of life behind bars

Corrections Minister Kelvin Davis: Inmates must be treated like human beings.