Mother buried with son
A young mother and baby who died during childbirth were buried together yesterday - with the newborn son in his mother's arms.Casey Nathan and Kymani Casey Nathan-Tukiri were buried at the family urupa...
View ArticleReview sought after breast removed in error
A woman who had a breast removed after being wrongly told she had cancer wants an urgent review of New Zealand's diagnostic laboratories.Two medical laboratories have been investigated in the past two...
View ArticleThree new charges for paedophile
One of New Zealand's most notorious jailed paedophiles is facing three new charges - and they were a key reason he was declined parole last month.The man in his 60s, who has name suppression, was...
View ArticleNo sale for infamous properties
Two Auckland properties at the centre of a murder trial have failed to sell at auction.The neighbouring do-up houses on Morningside Drive, opposite Westfield St Lukes, were passed in at auction.Records...
View ArticleMum waits to hear of skeleton
Jane Yorke didn't think of her long-missing daughter when a news item about the discovery of a skeleton on a Port Waikato beach flashed across her TV screen last week. She had a crying grandchild to...
View ArticleWoman dies on 'highway of death'
A young woman is dead and another seriously injured after two cars crashed head-on a road known as the "highway of death" yesterday afternoon.Inspector Leo Tooman, road policing manager for Waikato,...
View ArticleRena costs kept out of public eye
Almost $800,000 has been spent on security guards since containers from the stricken MV Rena began washing up on Bay of Plenty beaches.Guards have been stationed around the clock on beaches across the...
View ArticleSuspicious blaze ruins Canterbury home
Police are investigating after a quake-damaged Canterbury holiday home was destroyed in a suspicious fire overnight.Firefighters were called to the blaze in the coastal community of Pines Beach near...
View ArticleActivist Iti doing well in prison - son
Tame Iti's son says he is doing well in Mt Eden Prison.The veteran activist was jailed along with Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara for two and a half years, after being convicted of firearms offences following...
View ArticleNo targets in Urewera raids - police
Police Commissioner Peter Marshall says police did not identify any specific targets ahead of the Urewera raids in 2007.The comment comes after Tame Iti and Te Rangikaiwhiria Kemara were on Thursday...
View ArticleCarer admits stealing $76k from 99-year-old
A care worker has been convicted of ripping off a 99-year-old woman for tens of thousands of dollars.Fiji-born Ranita Devi, 32, of Papatoetoe, pleaded guilty to 16 counts of obtaining money using a...
View ArticleStun guns tempt tourist
A plumber sent home consignments of stun guns while holidaying in Thailand.Cameron Lowe, 25, was convicted in the Manukau District Court this week after he imported four consignments of 10 stun guns,...
View ArticleTwo bodies found in South Canterbury
Two bodies have been found on a remote property in rural south Canterbury.Motorcyclists discovered the bodies while taking part in an off-road charity event in the Waitaki Valley, raising money for...
View ArticleSuper age raise ruled out
A superannuation expert says the retirement age needs to be raised to 70 but the Government is continuing to rule out any change despite criticism over mounting costs.Figures in Thursday's Budget show...
View ArticlePolice concerned by Christchurch fires
The fire service was called to two suspicious fires in the same building in the same street in Christchurch last night.Witnesses have told police they saw two people fleeing the scene on Hereford...
View ArticleBudget 'bad news' for families - Labour
Three days on and Labour is still far from impressed with the Budget.Its spokesperson for Social Development and Children Jacinda Ardern said it is bad news for children and their families.She said all...
View ArticleFatal crash near Taupo this afternoon
One person is dead and another is seriously injured after a head-on crash near Taupo this afternoon.At about 3.50pm police believe a car veered into a path of an oncoming truck at the East Taupo...
View ArticleTramper rescued near Nelson thanks to locator beacon
A tramper has been rescued after setting off the emergency locator beacon his mother insisted he carry.The 21-year-old Auckland man developed symptoms of hypothermia after falling in a river near...
View ArticleThree rescued after fall into ocean off Otago coast
Three people were rescued after falling from the rocks into the ocean off the Otago coast this afternoon.A police spokesman said the family had been fishing off the rocks at Cape Saunders when a...
View ArticleMaramarua crash claims life of 'bright bubbly girl'
Students at a Waihi school are being offered counselling while police investigate whether fatigue or distraction played a part in the death of a teenager who was driving home.Emilie Kirsten Silberer, a...
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