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What’s the deal with liquor licensing trusts?

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

A person dressed as a clown with bright red hair, yellow overalls, and colorful makeup speaks energetically at a podium, while four seated adults in business attire look on in a wood-paneled room.

Windbag: Abolishing Thursdays, bulldozing the Johnsonville mall, and other notes from the campaign trail

Race briefing: A bumpy road ahead for the next crop of Otago Regional councillors

Four smiling men are positioned around the edges of a blue-tinted photo of a crowd. Two green and one red "Local Elections 25" badges are overlaid on the image.

An evening with the four men vying to replace the ‘Trump of the north’

A massive district with many challenges – and a main town that might need to move

‘How do I not get rage-baited?’ Meet the under-25s vying for council seats

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

An illustration of a green crowd in the center, flanked by red and blue stepped shapes on each side. A green circular badge in the top left reads "LOCAL ELECTIONS 25.

Here’s what we know about the 3,145 candidates running in local elections

Ken Laban stands superimposed over a shot of Lower Hutt, taken from Wainuiomata hill.

Why league legend Ken Laban wants to be Lower Hutt’s first Pasifika mayor

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

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All the celebrities* running in local elections around the country this year

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Serious, serial and everyone in between: Who’s running for mayor in Christchurch?