The Southland Times - January 22, 2025

Kayaker battles ‘daunting’ waves during 64km mission

‘I am a voice for the South Is’

Businesses racing to relax in Queenstown

New SI Minister Meager confident despite junior ranking

Telegraph crossword

Cause of fish deaths unknown

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Tournament a home run for Southland

Woman sent police photo during alleged sex crime

Fallow top excavator operator

Southern lab workers strike

Water restrictions for Tapanui

Service sector still growing

Bedbound woman left without care for hours

Hundreds a year get medical visas for treatment in New Zealand

Air Chathams to end direct NZ flights to Norfolk Island

Second op for Kiwi woman allegedly set on fire

Warwick Smith: The year through my lens

Teens charged with driving three times speed limit

Breast screening bus hits Otago, Southland

Archives NZ to assess if Fast-track record-keeping fell short of law

Christmas-time ‘reality check’ for services sector as trading is subdued

Seeka forecasts fruitful profit for 2024, after 2023 woes

Cold comfort from the real McCoy

Five-minute quiz

Tense looks, swipes at Biden, a kiss fail: the victory lap

Inaugural address defies its own theme

Trump issues hit list of early targets – local and foreign – Washington Post

Teen pleads guilty to murder in stabbings

Urge to urinate is contagious, study finds

Wake up and spend more on defence: Macron

80 killed in deadliest violence since accords

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He shoots, he scores: and now it’s 100 times

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