Facebook tip-off helps catch alleged hit and run driver
A Facebook tip-off has been credited with helping catch a 25-year-old driver who allegedly fled police after crashing into another car in Otorohanga.Police said the alleged offender drove off without...
View ArticleHitchhiker charged with murder
A 21-year-old hitchhiker accused of attacking a good samaritan who offered him a place to stay for the night has been charged with murder.Gordon Alfred Tunnicliffe, 64, never regained consciousness...
View ArticleDriving licence pass rates plummet
The success rate for passing the new restricted licence test has been halved.After nine weeks under the harder tests, nearly 9000 tests have been conducted and the overall pass rate is 41 per cent.It...
View ArticleIRD website crashes on GST deadline day
The Inland Revenue Department has fixed a website outage which caused stress and frustration for businesses filing their GST returns on deadline today.Service went down on ird.govt.nz just before...
View ArticleUnmanned yacht washes up on Mount Maunganui rocks
An unmanned yacht was found washed up on rocks at the base of Mauao, Mount Maunganui at first light this morning.The 20-foot yacht, named Nivana, was found around 6.30am pinned to the base of the...
View ArticleForeign exchange trader charged with fraud
A foreign exchange (forex) trader has been charged with fraud for allegedly causing 59 investors to lose around $1.5 million.The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has charged Christopher John Collecutt, 57,...
View ArticleMore pokies won't reduce harm - Greens
The Green Party says an increase in pokies is no harm minimisation plan, as National is suggesting.Greens' gambling spokeswoman Denise Roche said the Government's plan to greatly increase the number of...
View ArticleNew species confirmed on Denniston plateau
Two months after scientists scoured the Denniston Plateau on their hands and knees to find new species, they say the first results have proved conclusively that there are previously unidentified...
View ArticleProtest against fracking and deep sea oil drilling
Up to 100 people representing communities from across the country gathered in Wellington today to protest against the impact of fracking and deep sea oil drilling.People from east coast iwi Apanui, the...
View ArticleBudget: Govt reveals social welfare plans
The Government has announced the Budget will include $287.5 million for the first stage of the welfare reforms aimed at getting solo parents back to work earlier - but more than $200 million of that...
View ArticleFourteen rounds fired in fatal police shooting
A police officer who fired 14 rounds when he shot and killed a Hawke's Bay man late last year was justified in doing so, according to a police investigation.Lachan Kelly-Tumarae, 19, was shot dead by...
View ArticleAsset sales 'like a farmer eating his last chicken'
Selling off New Zealand's state owned assets is like a farmer eating his last chicken, MPs were told today.Parliament's finance and expenditure committee today heard dozens of submissions on the...
View ArticleMan steals car with baby on board
An alleged carjacker has been arrested in Nelson after stealing a car today with a 20-month-old baby on board. The man allegedly took both the child and car from an address after a family argument...
View ArticleCompany must pay $120K over crippling woman
A tourism operator has been ordered to pay $90,000 to a woman left a paraplegic after a rough trip on a pleasure boat in the Bay of Islands.Seafort Holdings Ltd was also ordered to pay fines of $30,000...
View ArticleKey 'disappointed' over MFAT leaks
Prime Minister John Key said he was deeply disappointed about the leaks from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and that most diplomats would be ashamed at what had happened.The most significant...
View ArticleMan hid identity to gain NZ citizenship
A wealthy Chinese man who was granted New Zealand citizenship hid a second identity from authorities when he made his application, a court has been told.William Yan - also known as Yang Liu and Yong...
View ArticleChild support system to get huge overhaul
Child support is set to be overhauled in the biggest proposed changes to child support law in 20 years.The income of both parents will be factored into child support calculations for the first time...
View ArticlePolice name toddler killed by stove
Waikato police have named the 19-month-old baby killed after a free-standing stove fell on him, but have slammed a media organisation for using the wrong name.Kobi George Collier was crushed when the...
View ArticleChild poverty film did not breach election rules
A documentary on child poverty that controversially screened four days before last year's general election did not breach broadcasting standards, the Broadcasting Standards Authority has ruled. Inside...
View ArticleRebstock to investigate cabinet paper leak
Paula Rebstock, the former chair of the Commerce Commission, will lead an investigation into the leak last week of up to three Cabinet papers relating to restructuring plans at the Ministry of Foreign...
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