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Editorial: Too many choices in bid for mayoralty

An Auckland mayoral election with no fewer than 19 candidates presents voters with a dismaying task.

Editorial: Medal joy so distant from sordid AB bug

When sportspeople have reason to suspect someone has gone so far as to bug their team room, something has gone wrong.

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.

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.

Urban limit helps make region liveable place

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

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: Career plan has merit as stats worry

It is a tough task for teenagers to make sound decisions about their career path.

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: Succession planning pays off for ABs

After winning the Rugby World Cup last year, All Black coach Steve Hansen could probably name the tenure of his next contract.

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: 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.

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.