Rebstock named chair of new ACC board
Paula Rebstock will add to her workload as a busy fix-it person for the government after being named as the chair of a revamped Accident Compensation Corp board.Rebstock, an existing member, will...
View ArticleAlleged migrant smuggler has case dismissed
A woman accused of organising illegal migrants to enter New Zealand has had the case against her dismissed.Wimonrat Konsaijan was discharged this morning in the High Court at Auckland where she had...
View ArticleWoman was pregnant when she disappeared
The mother of missing woman Rae Portman has made an emotional appeal for information today.Rebecca Norton also revealed her daughter was four months pregnant when she vanished.Ms Portman has not been...
View ArticlePsa spreads to Coromandel kiwifruit
The vine disease devastating New Zealand kiwifruit crops has spread to the Coromandel.Kiwifruit Vine Health has received provisional test results confirming Psa-V at an orchard in the Coromandel town...
View ArticleNZ at Noon: Dumb Criminal, Cocktail World Cup, Missing Cannons
Stories making headlines across New Zealand at noon include a man dubbed Dannevirke's dumbest criminal, animal-headed, lab-coat-wearing creatures mixing cocktails in Queenstown and if you happen to...
View ArticleGambling parents retain name suppression
The parents who left five children in a locked van while they gambled at Auckland's SkyCity casino are hoping to keep their names secret permanently.The 39-year-old man and 29-year-old woman kept their...
View ArticleWork continues to remove Rena
The bow section of the Rena could be completely removed by the New Year, the company in charge of the operation says.Nearly 11 months on from when Rena grounded at Astrolabe Reef, the beleaguered cargo...
View Article180 cows, calves found starving on farm
Animal welfare officers have euthanised 180 cows and calves found starving and near death on a West Coast farm.The Ministry of Primary Industries is considering laying charges under the Animal Welfare...
View ArticleCTV hearing wraps up with tribute
The 115 victims of the CTV Building's catastrophic collapse have been remembered in an emotional conclusion to the royal commission hearing into the disaster.Marwa Alkaisi, whose mother Dr Maysoon...
View ArticleVictim of August crash dies of injuries
A man critically injured in a single-vehicle collision near Ohaupo late last month has died in Waikato Hospital overnight, police said. Dominic Frances Smith, 23, suffered severe injuries in the August...
View ArticleVictim of August crash dies of injuries
A man critically injured in a single-vehicle collision near Ohaupo, Waikato late last month has died in Waikato Hospital.Dominic Frances Smith, 23, suffered severe injuries in the August 29 crash."This...
View ArticleNZ calls on nations to lower subsidies
New Zealand is calling on the United States, Japan and European Union countries to be bold and use the recessionary pressures on their budgets to justify cuts in trade-distorting subsidies paid to...
View ArticleEditorial: When good intentions go wrong
What is it about the health profession that causes good people to sometimes lose their sense of proportion.The case of the mother who was denied a meal at Dunedin Hospital because she was...
View ArticleJohn Roughan: Man who found our better half
This day a year ago we were reading reports of the opening night of the Rugby World Cup. Admittedly, the coverage was dominated by Auckland's public transport disaster, but even that was a sign that...
View Article'Her Deepness' lives for the sea
Oceanographer Dr Sylvia Earle is arguably the ocean's biggest champion, with six decades of first-hand experience in the world's big blue backyard. It was a rogue wave on a New Jersey beach that first...
View ArticleKey: Surplus goal can be revised
Prime Minister John Key is not ruling out revising National's 2015 target for getting the Government's books back into surplus if there is a faster-than-expected slowing in the Chinese and Australian...
View ArticleLaura Dekker's quest for independence
A 16-year-old who battled Dutch authorities to sail solo around the world now wants to make New Zealand her home. Geoff Cumming talks to the very independent Laura Dekker Something about Laura Dekker,...
View ArticleAuckland: Hated by a few, loved by many
Arrogant? Check.Pretentious? Check.Busy and stressful? Double check.When it comes to the way folk south of the Bombays and north of Brynderwyns see Auckland, the old anti-Jafa sentiment is still...
View ArticleNext Miss Aoteoroa needs te reo
There will be no embarrassing Miss New Zealand-type spats at the Miss Aotearoa pageant, the organiser says of the contest which begins today in Hawkes Bay.Angela Cudd, 23, from Ngati Porou, won the...
View ArticleShooter: I think of it every day
A man jailed for a fatal shooting during a hunting trip says he relives the tragedy every day - and he will not appeal against his sentence.Christopher Dummer, a former president of the Wellington...
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