Paraglider in three-hour cliff ordeal
A paraglider was stuck in a tree 50m above the ground for three hours today before emergency services pulled him to safety.Just after noon, four passengers in a red car driving between Whakatane and...
View ArticleTourist did 176kph on wrong side of the road
A tourist who was clocked at 176kph at Harihari on Friday was on the wrong side of the road and continued travelling in the wrong lane, including over a blind crest, for a further 2km before stopping...
View ArticleAllowance cuts to affect up to 5000 students
Up to 5000 students will be affected by the National-led Government's cut to student allowances, Tertiary Education Minister Steven Joyce revealed this afternoon.The Government announced a raft of...
View ArticleRunaway millionaire trial set for next week
The trial for the former Rotorua woman who allegedly left New Zealand with her partner when Westpac mistakenly put $10 million into his account is set to start next week.Kara Hurring allegedly fled New...
View ArticleDunedin police arrest 10 after targeting Mongrel Mob
Police have arrested 10 men after a four-month investigation centred on the Dunedin Mongrel Mob.Officers this morning searched 15 properties in Dunedin, Wellington, Ashburton and the West Coast town of...
View ArticleTwo guilty, rest freed in Mongrel Mob trial
A Mongrel Mob member described by the Crown as the "acting president" in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa has been convicted in the High Court at Gisborne on two charges arising from a rival...
View ArticleTeen blinded at work offers his boss forgiveness
A Tauranga teenager who lost an eye in a workplace accident wants to go for coffee with his convicted boss.Aaron Wilton-Jones was blinded in his left eye by a chisel on his second day of work but is...
View ArticleFox Glacier air crash report due
Twenty months after nine people died in a fiery plane crash at Fox Glacier, the final report into what caused the tragedy will be released tomorrow.Four tourists, four skydive masters and their...
View ArticleDog used as weapon against cops, police allege
A man has appeared in court charged with using his dog as a weapon against police.Bert Leonard Jury, 44, of Grey Lynn appeared at the Auckland District Court this afternoon charged with assaulting two...
View ArticleMan injured after bull charging
A man has been flown to Christchurch Hospital after he was charged by a bull.St John Ambulance said it was alerted to the incident on a private property near Loburn just after midday.An ambulance and...
View ArticleConfusion over education league tables
Education Minister Hekia Parata says she supports school performance data being made public but the Ministry of Education has assured school principals it does not intend to publish league tables.The...
View ArticleMan injured after falling from V8 grandstand
A man has been injured after falling from a temporary grandstand put up at the V8 Supercars track in Hamilton.The man was a contractor helping to take down the scaffolding on a field near Waikato...
View Article'Urewera Four' will not be re-tried
The "Urewera Four'' will not be re-tried on a charge of belonging to an organised criminal group.APNZ understands that the Crown will file an application for a stay of proceedings relating to the...
View ArticleBirth control plan 'belittling to women'
The Government's plan to offer women on benefits free birth control has been met with mixed responses from beneficiaries.Social Development Minister Paula Bennett announced yesterday that the...
View ArticleMan dead in South Canterbury crash
A man was killed on State Highway 1 in South Canterbury today when his car crashed head-on with an articulated truck.Sergeant Steven Van der Heyden of Oamaru police said the man died at the scene of...
View ArticleWhangarei hotel robbed at knifepoint
The public bar of a Whangarei hotel has been robbed at knifepoint, police say.Police and St John Ambulance were this evening heading to Kamo Hotel, north of Whangarei, after a caller reported a...
View ArticleAccountant who failed to file returns struck off
An Auckland accountant who failed to file tax returns for clients then lied to her bosses has been struck off by the Institute of Chartered Accountants.Shelley Marie Williams failed to file tax returns...
View ArticleIMF contributions could be raised without Parliament approval
A new law allowing governments to increase New Zealand's multibillion-dollar commitment to the International Monetary Fund without legislative changes in Parliament passed its first reading today.The...
View ArticleWoman denies being drunk driver who pulled out in front of cop car
A Reefton woman's protests that she was not the drunk driver who pulled out in front of a police patrol car and then merrily drove the next couple of blocks on the wrong side of the road, did not wash...
View ArticleFree meningococcal jabs on way
A programme offering free meningococcal vaccines to young Northland residents is being extended.The district health board says almost 75 per cent of people aged 12 months to 19 were immunised after...
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