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The First 15 Things You Should Check for in a Hotel Room Marissa Laliberte © Maskot/Getty Images Rear view of businessman opening white curtain on window in hotel room As the saying goes: location, location, location. Before you even think about booking, pick your ideal location, says Peggy Goldman, president and founder of Friendly Planet Travel. “Especially if you’re [traveling] for the purpose of sightseeing, it’s really important to be in a place that’s very acces...

Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Marco Rubio leads a group of senators who want to impose daylight-saving time all year. We tried this in the 1970s and quickly went back to the old clock-changing policy. It turns out, people hate it when the sun doesnt rise until 9am. This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. Its almost that time again: On Sunday, we will turn the clocks forward one hour due to the arrival of spring. Its great. I dont jus...

The Rotary Club of Timaru, which runs the event, made a decision last week to gamble on the alert level dropping before Sunday so they could hold the event – a gamble that paid off as the country, except for Auckland, moved out of level 2 restrictions at 6am, just three and a half hours before the start of the run. Bejon Haswell/Stuff The fundraising event gets underway on Sunday. “I think there might have been a few people who felt like getting out and doing something. Other events had b...

The Colorado Avalanche continues its four-game California road trip and looks to earn its third straight win as it visits the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday for the second contest of a two-game set. The Avs collected its first win on the road with a 3-2 victory on Tuesday night while staving off a late third-period comeback by the Kings. Brandon Saad started the scoring for the club with his first goal in an Avalanche sweater in the first period, followed by back-to-back power-play notches from D...

Becomes one of four Avs to reach the milestone by Ron Knabenbauer @RonKnab / ColoradoAvalanche.com Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon joined a short list of individuals to reach 500 points in team history, but he also joined an exclusive group of players throughout the league to hit the mark before their 26th birthday. T...

First of eight games between Colorado and Los Angeles by Andy Vernier / ColoradoAvalanche.com The Colorado Avalanche begins its first road trip of the 2020-21 season when it visits the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night for the first of a two-game set. Colorado is coming off an 8-0 victory on Friday against the St. Louis Blues, the first win of the season for the club. Eig...

JOHN BISSET/SUFF Ray Bennett reminisces about his busy life serving in the South Canterbury community and memories of Timaru during the war. As the region prepares to welcome in a new year, former Timaru mayor and identity Ray Bennett looks back on his life serving the community, as Esther Ashby-Coventry reports. Ray Bennett has lived in the same Timaru house his entire life and has no regrets. JOHN BISSET/Stuff Ray Bennett stands in front of the Timaru home he has lived in for all his 88 year...

BEJON HASWELL/Stuff Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon, pictured in Timaru on July 8, 2020, 12 days before his resignation over allegations of sending an indecent image. A scandal involving former Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon was a dominating feature of July’s news writes Doug Sail, as we continue our series looking back on the year that was. Rangitata MP Andrew Falloon resigned in disgrace in July after it was revealed he had sent an indecent image to a young woman. The 37-year-old National Party ...