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The Papanui Tigers and Greymouth Greyhounds have agreed to share players next season. Photo: Kirsty Wilson Photography LPSNZ QPSA The Greymouth Greyhounds will become the first team from the West Coast to play in the Canterbury league premiership next season.

Christopher Luxon will be sworn in as New Zealand's 42nd prime minister today. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone The new government is committed to reducing tobacco use, despite plans to repeal smokefree legislation, incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon says.

Bike Wanaka president Ewan Mackie said more than 100 people showed up for the celebration and informal jump jam.

Ambulance staff tend to an injured person after a BurgerFuel car swerved into a crowd at the Avondale Santa Parade. Photos: NZ Herald The BurgerFuel cars that have featured in Christmas parades and other events for nearly three decades are being put on immediate hold after one rolled into two people at the Avondale Santa Parade on Saturday.

Some Arrowtown residents are concerned about the incremental housing development spilling on to semi-rural land (top right) outside the township’s urban growth boundary. PHOTO: ODT FILES A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

An 18-year-old female has appeared in court over the alleged stabbing of another teenage girl in Christchurch last week.

An 18-year-old woman has appeared in court over the alleged stabbing of a teenage girl in Christchurch last week.

Official figures show secondary schools are relying more than ever on foreign-trained teachers and teachers over the age of 65. Photo: RNZ Secondary school principals warn they are struggling to find enough good teachers to staff their classrooms next year.

Melanie Dixon receiving a Storylines notable young adult fiction award on November 4. ​Photo: Supplied A Governors Bay author hopes to create climate change awareness with her award-winning novel set in a future Lyttelton.

Act leader David Seymour (L), incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon (centre) and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo: RNZ The freshly passed Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms look set to be first on the chopping block as the new coalition government settles into power.

Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at a rally in front of Sydney's Town Hall last week. Photo: Getty A Christian primary school student has been called a terrorist for being Palestinian, reflecting rising Islamophobia across Australia.

Act leader David Seymour (L), incoming prime minister Christopher Luxon (centre) and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters. Photo: RNZ The freshly passed Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms look set to be first on the chopping block as the new coalition government settles into power.

Dreich weather was the only thing missing from the Scottish atmosphere at the inaugural Strath Taieri St Andrew’s Day celebration in Middlemarch yesterday.

Some Arrowtown residents are concerned about the incremental housing development spilling on to semi-rural land (top right) outside the township’s urban growth boundary. PHOTO: ODT FILES A crusader for Arrowtown’s green belt may have lost two legal bids to keep land rurally zoned, but believes his efforts — and the $40,000 it cost him — have not been wasted.

University of Otago students are set to fight any possible move by the new government to limit Māori and Pacific Island special entrance pathways into medical school.

A dredge works the Clutha River below Beaumont. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the well-trodden path of career politicians, the ecological vandalism of dredging, and a critically endangered bird.

Royalburn Station’s Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie outside their farm shop in Arrowtown. PHOTO: JAMES ALLAN PHOTOGRAPHY Challenging and enthralling.

The Clutha Comets have made their intentions clear a week out from the final of the South Otago T20 competition.

Borton Cup leaders St Kevin’s had to fight for a two-wicket win over Albion on Saturday.

Appleby narrowly beat Marist in a low-scoring match in the Southland one-day competition on Saturday.