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Palmerston’s sign of shame ... Due for an upgrade? PHOTO: SUPPLIED Today is the day.

Today's cartoon from Voyager 2023 award winning cartoonist, Shaun Yeo.

Everyone seems to have bad stories about sideline comments and refereeing.

The Mataura Community Centre. PHOTO: ODT FILES A flurry of concerns about youth crime have been aired by worried residents at a Mataura town meeting.

PHOTO: TONI MCDONALD Jon Nabbs takes a short break on his trip north on the first day of his run from Bluff to Cape Reinga.

A woman new to South Otago and reported missing today has been found safe. 

Photo: Getty Images An ambulance call handler has been found in breach of the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights after a teenager died from an asthma attack due to the delay in an ambulance being dispatched.

A dead 15-metre-long sperm whale washed ashore on a remote part of Oreti Beach at the weekend.  PHOTO SUPPLIED/DOC The Department of Conservation and iwi are appealing for information after a jawbone was illegally taken from a dead whale at a Southland beach.

Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp in central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Photo: Reuters Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from air and ground, have pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and Hamas media said, while tanks and troops crossed a key highway on the outskirts of Rafah in the south.

Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp in central Gaza Strip on Sunday. Photo: Reuters Israeli tanks, under cover of heavy fire from air and ground, have pushed further into Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, residents and Hamas media said, while tanks and troops crossed a key highway on the outskirts of Rafah in the south.

A column of ash rises over the Mount Ibu volcano, in Tabaru, North Maluku province on Monday. Photo: Fhe Booroto/via Reuters Indonesia's Ibu volcano has erupted, spewing thick columns of grey ash several kilometres into the sky, the country's volcanology agency says.

Children's Minister Karen Chhour. Photo: RNZ The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which blocked a summons order from the Waitangi Tribunal for Children's Minister Karen Chhour.

Photo: ODT files A baby was left on a grass verge in Taranaki after a man stole a car the child had been in, police say. 

Hone Kay-Selwyn was found dead in Taupō last week. Photo: Supplied / Police Four arrests have been made after patrols in Ōtara for a gang funeral of the man police say fatally shot a pedestrian outside a central Auckland bar. 

Photo: ODT files A baby was left on a grass verge in Taranaki after a man stole a car the child had been in, police say. 

A Canterbury motorist says a long line of advertising billboards on farmland near the southern entrance to Woodend is a traffic hazard.

Children's Minister Karen Chhour. Photo: RNZ The Court of Appeal has overturned a High Court decision which blocked a summons order from the Waitangi Tribunal for Children's Minister Karen Chhour.

Hundreds of fans of a bygone-era descended on Rolleston over the weekend to celebrate all things vintage and recreate a golden age.

Lachie Jones. Photo: ODT files A pathologist agrees the autopsy on Lachie Jones should have been completed by a forensic specialist.

Photo: Ashburton District Council The cost of building Ashburton’s second bridge has leapt to $130 million as the conversation around its construction continues to circle the big funding question.