Firm fined $65,000 after employees burned
A cleaning firm has been fined $65,000 after two employees were burned and required plastic surgery following exposure to a cleaning chemical.The incidents occurred at Progressive Meat Limited's (PML)...
View ArticleMMP review recommends lower party threshold
The final report reviewing the MMP voting system - which recommends lowering the party threshold to four per cent - has been tabled in Parliament.The report, conducted by the Electoral Commission, was...
View ArticlePike River: 'Unrelenting picture of failure'
The lawyer representing the families of the Pike River victims, Nicholas Davidson QC, says the Royal Commission's report - released today - gives an "unrelenting picture of failure at virtually every...
View ArticleMore charges for firefighter basher
A Martinborough man accused of assaulting a volunteer firefighter had more charges laid against him in Masterton District Court today.Milton Haira, 25, unemployed, had faced a charge of assault but...
View ArticleAnna Guy on lawyer's death: 'I just thought it was so sad'
Anna Guy has expressed sadness at the death of high-profile defence lawyer Greg King during her first day on air.The 31-year-old joined the breakfast shift at More FM Manawatu today as part of a...
View ArticleMother sentenced for giving 9-year-old daughter a gun
The actions of a woman who gave her daughter a gun and told her to shoot the man she accused of assaulting her have been called "incomprehensible" by a judge.The 26-year-old woman, who was granted...
View ArticleJohn Armstrong: A right royal bollocking over Pike River
It is not just a bollocking, The (now former) Department of Labour has copped a right royal bollocking from the Royal Commission on the Pike River tragedy. The department therefore has to take its...
View ArticleJohn Key makes gay joke gaffe (+ video)
Prime Minister John Key says "gay" just means "weird" and he had no intention of offending anyone when he used it on a radio show last week.Mr Key is under fire for using the word "gay" to rib a radio...
View ArticleMan falls to death inside university building
A man in his twenties is dead after falling six stories onto the crowded floor of the Owen Glenn Building at Auckland University.Emergency services were called to the business school on the corner of...
View ArticleTeens arrested after 'cowardly' robbery of 98-year-old
Two teenagers have been arrested following a "cowardly " robbery of a 98-year-old woman in Morrinsville yesterday.Sergeant Mark Toomey of the Morrinsville Police said the incident happened about...
View ArticleFreediver again misses record by 1m
Freediver Kathryn Nevatt was again red-carded in her bid to break a world record in Masterton today, but also came up one metre short of the world mark.Nevatt swam 159m underwater on a single breath,...
View ArticlePolice chopper laser strike 'put crew in danger'
Two young men who allegedly shone a high-powered laser at a police helicopter, filling the cockpit with bright green light, put the three-man crew in danger, a court has been told.Joshua O'Hare-Knight,...
View ArticleAlleged conman promised cure for multiple sclerosis sufferer
An alleged conman told a multiple sclerosis sufferer that he would be cured if he handed over thousands of dollars in "goodwill'' money to travel to a clinic in Cyprus, a court has been told.Australian...
View ArticleMan jailed for robbing teen
A man who threatened and robbed a Whakamaru teenager of all his major possessions has been jailed for four years.Tyral James Stainton, 31, was sentenced in Rotorua District Court today after he was...
View ArticleCTV inquest: 'No confusion' over leadership
Acting Fire Service manager Steve Barclay has disagreed strongly with some earlier witnesses at the CTV inquest that there was confusion over leadership on February 22 last year.Dissatisfaction with...
View ArticleMan killed in motocross bike accident named
Police have named the Waimate man who was killed in a motocross bike accident on Sunday night as 30-year-old Daniel Charles Down.Waimate Constable Paul Alden said that sometime between 9pm and 9.25pm...
View ArticleNumber of flu cases higher than expected
The number of patients admitted to hospital with influenza is higher than previously thought, an important New Zealand study on the disease has found.The Auckland and Counties Manukau district health...
View ArticleSoftball club members gutted after lock-up looted
Giants Softball Club members are devastated after $5000 worth of gear was stolen from their Wairarapa lock-up, and without insurance they are unsure how it will be replaced.Club president Allan Clarke...
View ArticleInjured man dies following Temuka incident
The man injured in an incident at the Crown Hotel in Temuka on Saturday night has died.Dale Robert Bellaney, 39, of Temuka died at Christchurch Hospital shortly after 8am today, said police.Detective...
View ArticleMother guilty of 16 charges after identity theft
A Hawke's Bay mother went to extreme lengths to access another person's IRD and banking details in a brazen case of identity fraud.Chanelle Betty Sandilands, 30, appeared in Napier District Court...
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