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Students, teachers and community members urged "common sense" changes to gun legislation during the March for Our Lives Walk and Rally in Wellsville

Christchurch is our most exciting city: you just need to know where to look. If you’re looking for a warm welcome on your domestic travels, it seems you best head to Canterbury – the only New Zealand destination to feature in a new ranking of the most welcoming regions in the world. Canterbury came in at number five on Booking.com’s list of the ten “most welcoming regions on Earth” based on more than 130 million guest reviews of properties listed on the site. Brook Sabin/Stuff Stuff travel journalist Brook Sabin enjoying the hospitality at Hot Tubs Omarama. Listed regions had the...

STACY SQUIRES/Stuff Anne-Marie Jones, pictured with her son Chase, 6, says her phone can't scan QR codes and many businesses have got rid of pen and paper registers. Low-income and elderly communities are being forgotten about when it comes to contact tracing, vulnerable Kiwis say. Scanning a QR code with New Zealand’s Covid Tracer app requires a smartphone newer than Android 6.0 or an iPhone with IOS 11, and many businesses are relying on this as the only method to track people's movement under Ministry of Health guidelines. Some lower-income and elderly Kiwis do not have smartphones, an...