Thieves nab 75 packages in courier van robbery
Customers still in the dark on missing items two weeks after brazen theft. Thieves escaped with with 75 packages after stealing a courier van while the driver was metres away making a delivery on...
View ArticleHands-on rich-lister's rebirth
The multi-millionaire founder of Chrisco is launching a new business venture. Richard Bradley is recently divorced and his new lease on life includes breaking his silence and answering the critics....
View ArticleRena disaster 'an accident waiting to happen' claims author
Our worst maritime environmental disaster was an accident waiting to happen, says the author of the first book on the Rena catastrophe.An experienced senior salvage master quoted in John Julian's book...
View ArticleMore Kiwis float their mortgages
New Zealanders have shed the security of fixed mortgages during a long period of low interest rates, choosing floating loans in increasing numbers.But with a rise in rates possible at the end of the...
View ArticleBennett: Backstop has become a beast
Unemployed graduates will get less help from Work and Income, and sole parents and sick people will get more, says Social Development Minister Paula Bennett.Ms Bennett interrupted her honeymoon, after...
View ArticleChinese coy on farm sale to iwi
Shanghai Pengxin will not rule out the possibility it might sell some of the 16 Crafar farms to New Zealand groups which mounted a rival bid if the Chinese company gets approval from Government...
View ArticleMum's death blamed on fizzy drink
The family of a 30-year-old mother who died suddenly say her 7.5 litre-a-day Coca-Cola habit was partly to blame.Mother-of-eight Natasha Marie Harris died on February 25, 2010 after a cardiac arrest,...
View ArticleKey stopped other bids once SkyCity interested
Prime Minister John Key halted a joint Government-Auckland City Council business plan for an international convention centre when SkyCity indicated it was keen to expand, Cabinet papers have...
View ArticleTeens caught in rip lucky to survive
A teenage brother and sister are lucky to be alive after they were caught in a rip and dragged 200m offshore at Pauanui yesterday.The pair, whom the Herald understands were holidaying from Raglan,...
View ArticleBaby-killing daughter 'let down' - dad
A woman who hid the body of her dead baby and later killed a newborn child was let down by agencies meant to help her, her father says.But agencies that intervened after the first child's death claim...
View ArticleMotorcyclist hit by wrong-way car loses leg
A 38-year-old motorcyclist has lost his leg after being hit head-on by a car travelling the wrong way on Auckland's southern motorway.The man had been riding his motorcycle south when he was struck by...
View ArticleSkyCity job estimate higher than rivals
SkyCity's promise of 800 jobs at its convention centre - a figure first announced by the Government - is twice as many as employed by a bigger venue in Melbourne.And it is up to four times the staffing...
View ArticleThe war bride
Fragile old letters are the lasting reminders of a young wife's lonely wait. Andrew Stone tells her story The notepaper, 70 years old, feels soft and fragile. Time has yellowed the pages but the...
View ArticleThe flying ace
James Russell recounts his grandfather's exploits as a fighter pilot in World War II On April 25, 1994, as the old servicemen sat in the Whitianga RSA sipping handles of beer at the end of another...
View ArticleNigerian migration fraudsters target NZ
Nigerian immigration fraudsters are targeting New Zealand as a place to live and take advantage of humanitarian migration policy to bring dozens of family members with them.The scams have cost...
View ArticleDeath puts focus on thrill-seekers' sport
At night, while most of Auckland is asleep, empty parking lots and quiet roads become the playground - and training ground - for many longboarders.Longboarding is the little-known sport that is growing...
View ArticleCrisci 'so sorry' for role in drugs case
The alleged heroin deal that led to a society restaurateur being arrested in the United States involved figures from a Mafia drug-trafficking ring.The original court papers from 1988 set out the United...
View ArticleSurrogate baby eases sorrow
A couple whose baby died during a horrific birth, leaving the mother unable to have more children, are expecting another child.Through a surrogate mother and in-vitro fertilisation, Robert and Linda...
View ArticleUS judge: Dotcom trial may not occur
The criminal charges against Kim Dotcom in the United States may never get to trial, the judge overseeing the case has told the FBI.United States district court judge Liam O'Grady said he didn't know...
View ArticlePokie machines ruined my brother
One man's pursuit of success on poker machines is laid bare in a handful of bank statements opened by a distraught family member.They show the Auckland tradesman earned $32,400 in 14 weeks, but spent...
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