Beaten French tourists staying on in NZ
Two French tourists plan to continue their New Zealand holiday after a terrifying attack police have labelled "abhorrent".The 21-year-old backpackers are trying to put the frightening incident behind...
View ArticleKiwi workers say 'no' to more migrants
More New Zealand workers oppose greater ethnic diversity in their workplaces than are for it, a survey has found.The Leadership, Employment and Direction Survey conducted by Leadership Management...
View ArticleACC battle for dad with childhood throat injury
Reston Brook has to push a 2cm-wide length of rubber down his throat every day so he can eat and drink.The painful, gag-inducing ritual is a legacy of an accident in 1983. As a toddler, he drank from a...
View ArticleUrgent hearing for Maori Treaty bid to block asset sales
An urgent Waitangi Tribunal hearing which Prime Minister John Key acknowledges could delay his flagship asset sales programme begins in Wellington today.After passing the necessary legislation last...
View ArticlePolice respond a lot quicker to 111 calls
Police response times to 111 calls in urban areas have been getting faster over the past three years, and officers now reach more than half of priority-one incidents within 10 minutes.But while the...
View ArticleVictoria Wharf to get $6m repair work
A $6 million repair job is set for one of Auckland's most popular wharves for fishing and sight-seeing.The Victoria Wharf, next to the Devonport ferry terminal, was closed for most of last summer...
View ArticleLeading Auckland retailer and benefactor dies at 99
An Auckland businessman, who set up some of New Zealand's biggest retail stores, died yesterday, aged 99.Dennis Nathan and his three brothers in the 1930s took over LD Nathan, which owned supermarket...
View ArticleNgawha prisoners light fires and trash cells
A riot squad rushed to a Northland prison yesterday after inmates damaged cells and lit fires.The prisoners, whose protest led to the entire Northland Regional Prison at Ngawha, near Kaikohe, being...
View ArticleAuthor Margaret Mahy dead at 76
Children's book author Margaret Mahy, one of New Zealand's most acclaimed literary figures, died today. Ms Mahy, 76, died in Christchurch this afternoon after a brief illness, according to reports from...
View ArticleKey open to Zimbabwe sanction review
Prime Minister John Key says he is open to reviewing New Zealand's sanctions on Zimbabwe during the visit of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai this week.New Zealand imposed financial and travel...
View ArticleMP keeps heat on pokie trusts
Pokie trusts are lining up to return greater cash payments to the community as proposed new gaming legislation puts the entire industry under threat.Cuts are anticipated to the trustee payments with...
View ArticleMore heavy rain to hit North Island
Heavy rains have eased but roads remain closed around the Coromandel Peninsula and Bay of Plenty due to slips and flooding.The MetService has lifted a heavy weather warning for the Coromandel, however...
View ArticleJudge and son face court over dog attack
A District Court judge is being prosecuted over a dog attack and will appear in court next month.Judge Mary Beth Sharp's lawyer Michael Reed QC told APNZ that his client and her son were both being...
View ArticleNetball: Happy change for homecoming
Laura Langman's boyfriend was waiting at Auckland Airport for the champion netballer to arrive home from Melbourne yesterday, thankful that at last he could celebrate a victory in the transtasman ANZ...
View ArticleJust seven weeks to wait for Herald's new look
The weekday New Zealand Herald will move to compact format on Monday, September 10, APN New Zealand announced today. The redesign of the nzherald.co.nz homepage will also go live on this day.T
View ArticleThe Cloud set to stay on Queens Wharf site
The Government and Auckland Council have agreed in principle to keep the Cloud on Queens Wharf, but who will manage it is up in the air.The $9.8 million Cloud was built by the Government for last...
View Article$112 a head for asset loyalty
A "loyalty" scheme to sweeten state assets sales for investors could cost the taxpayer $500 million - more than $100 for every man, woman and child in New Zealand - according to Treasury numbers.At the...
View ArticleGiant of children's literature dies
Margaret Mahy had the "most powerful imagination of our time", fellow children's book author Jack Lasenby says.The famed New Zealand author died yesterday in Christchurch following a brief illness,...
View ArticleProtesters join forces on drilling
Elvis Teddy appeared in the Tauranga District Court charged with operating his ship in a manner that caused unnecessary risk to another vessel and resisting arrest.Protesters will today make a fresh...
View ArticleKiwiSaver's first-home payouts triple in year
The amount paid out to young New Zealanders reaping the benefits of KiwiSaver's first-home subsidy has tripled in the past year as more people become eligible.But as Auckland house prices hit a record...
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