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Displaced Palestinian boys play football as they shelter at a tent camp, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. PHOTO: REUTERS Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the "Middle East Problem" might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out.

The most harmful drug to New Zealand’s youth — alcohol — is widely accessible, heavily marketed, and cheap. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES "Harms can be minimised by taking a policy approach to drugs focused on health and wellbeing, rather than prohibition and criminalisation", write  Dr Rose Crossin and Prof Joe Boden.

Australia feels even more like "the lucky country" as New Zealand faces its economic trials.

Todays cartoon from Voyager award winning cartoonist Shaun Yeo.

George St. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including breaking the law in Clyde, the new-look George St, and Sammy's

The expanse of flat land created by filling Lake Logan, in North Dunedin, for the 1925-1926 New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition. — Otago Witness, 8.7.1924 With the Harbour Board pumping in sand and building up scrub walls and the Exhibition directors levelling the ground with three or four teams of horses, Logan Park is beginning to present a very busy appearance.

Club Rugby University lock Ale Aho tries to escape the tackle of Zingari No 8 Mika Mafi last Saturday. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON The wrap

The Southern Region season hits the halfway mark, and four teams have cemented themselves in the semifinal picture.

Zingari-Richmond winger Ryan Kreft chases a wayward ball against University last Saturday. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON Chunky defeats are not normally a surprise for Zingari-Richmond.

Maheno hooker Hayden Tisdall looks for his options. PHOTO: YAMMIE MCKENZIE PHOTOGRAPHY There is an intriguing question in North Otago.

Alexandra rugby players celebrate after beating Upper Clutha in the Central Otago premier club rugby final in Wanaka last season. PHOTO: RUBY SHAW The Central Otago premier club competition has reached the ‘‘what happens next?’’ stage of the season.

Jordan Stewart 1. Favourite rugby memory? With Star, it was my first year in 2015, winning the Galbraith Shield. We haven’t won it since then so that is my personal favourite.

Education Perfect has announced it is developing a new feedback tool powered by artificial intelligence. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON A Dunedin education company with a global reach is confident its new tool powered by artificial intelligence will not be taken in any "odd directions" by secondary school pupils.

Kate Heffernan brings the ball down the court against the Diamonds. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES Netball New Zealand becomes the first country to celebrate 100 years in 2024. Netball writer Kayla Hodge casts her eye over the past, the present and the future.

$2000 of a $44,000 whitebait-stand debt remains to be paid to the West Coast Regional Council after it threatened tardy stand-holders. PHOTO: ODT FILES Just $2000 of a $44,000 whitebait-stand debt remains to be paid to the West Coast Regional Council after it threatened tardy stand-holders.

Casting for Recovery co-ordinator Lisa Brits (left) helps Anne Kirk with practice on the lawn at Wild Earth Lodge. PHOTO: SANTILLAN DE PINTO They came as strangers and left thick as thieves.

The Eagles under-17 championship in Cromwell from October 7 will attract some of the country’s best young male and female golfers as well as their parents and supporters.

Christine Chisholm poses beside the graves of her great-grandparents Creighton Reid and Sarah Anne McCombe in Lawrence. She is hoping to learn more about their lives in the area. PHOTO: SUPPLIED A woman living in Australia is searching for answers about her Lawrence-based family.

Project co-ordinator Catriona Gower shows student volunteers the best way to establish native trees along the Owaka River. PHOTO: NICK BROOK A growing change for the Owaka River began recently.

Balclutha Lions Club members Ivan Martin (left) and Rodney Jopson get ready to prepare a delivery of firewood for local pensioners at the club’s Balclutha wood store last week. PHOTO: RICHARD DAVISON A Balclutha service club is looking for community-minded locals to put a smile on people’s faces.