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Spate of firearms incidents alarms Police Association
Recent firearms-related incidents targeting the police have prompted their union to renew its call for the general arming of officers.
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Destruction of forest in Brazil's Amazon decreases
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon fell about 27 percent from a year earlier, while clearing increased 34.5 percent, according to preliminary data from space research agency INPE.
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Covid updates are prudent, not a campaign strategy - Health Minister
Checkpoint - Health Minister Chris Hipkins talks about why we're being told to buy masks, and the Covid Card to be trailled in Rotorua. Audio
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Oranga Tamariki fronts up to Waitangi Tribunal hearing
"I have a daughter and I don't want the state caring for her." Oranga Tamariki's bosses have appeared at the Waitangi Tribunal today.
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Oranga Tamariki report: 'Something is rotten in that organisation'
Māori leaders say they have no faith in Oranga Tamariki and the chief executive needs to go after the latest report into the organisation found it was routinely taking newborns without whānau… Audio
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Brewery apologises for 'Huruhuru' Māori beer name
The co-founder of a Canadian brewery that has been mocked online for naming its New Zealand pale ale 'Huruhuru', has apologised to anyone who felt disrespected.
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Kiwi company developing survey to help uncover worker exploitation
A Hawke's Bay company believes it will be the first in the world to develop a mobile friendly survey to uncover serious workers rights problems in horticulture.
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Farmers say new land bill has too much red tape
Farmers and environmentalists are divided over proposed changes to the laws governing the high country.
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InfraCore $750k boost an 'investment', Rotorua Lakes Council says
A $750,000 cash boost to council-controlled organisation InfraCore has been described as an "investment" and is not a "prop up" or bailout.
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Positive start to Ōpōtiki’s first Tuia Programme
Ōpōtiki's first Tuia Programme is already producing positive results amongst the community's youth.
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Middlemore Hospital’s $67.5m mental health unit nears completion
According to a Counties Manukau District Health Board report, the unit will set the benchmark for similar facilities in New Zealand.
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Marlborough beach vehicle ban hinges on numbers
A vehicle survey has been suggested for a quake-stricken coast in Marlborough as a proposed quad bike ban has been delayed again.
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Water proposals 'biggest shake up' since 1989 reforms
Reforms to national water standards will be the "biggest shake up" local government has received in 30 years, Masterton Mayor Lyn Patterson says.
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Bryce Edwards: Where's the contest of ideas this campaign?
Analysis - Can we postpone this year's election? We've ended up with a campaign focused on scandal, personality and leadership, with a policy void that's worse than usual.
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Police, Medsafe 'raid' New Zealand bleach 'cure' seller
Police and Medsafe have raided the property of a man who sells a bleach he claims can cure Covid-19, RNZ understands.
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NZ broke into embassies for CIA and MI6
The SIS broke into the Indian High Commission for MI6 and the Iranian Embassy for the CIA in the late 1980s and early 1990s to photograph code books, plant bugs and steal communications.
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Person seriously injured after car plunges down bank
One person was seriously injured and another received minor injuries after a car plunged eight metres down a bank in the Waitakeres early this morning.
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Pop-up clinics aim to reduce chance of 'hidden pocket' of Covid-19 cases
New Zealand finds itself "in the eye of a Covid-19 storm" and more testing is required to discover if there has been undetected transmission in the community, Taranaki Medical Officer of Health…
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Lockdown climate benefits not lasting, scientists warn
Reduced emissions during lockdown will not produce lasting benefits without further action, a leading climate change policy expert says.
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Man sentenced after huge illegal kaimoana buy
A Wellington business owner has escaped a hefty sentence after illegally buying pāua and other shellfish.
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Woman who fatally stabbed her abusive partner sentenced to home detention
The systemic disadvantage suffered by Māori helped to create the conditions in which Karen Anne Ruddelle stabbed and killed the man she loved, a judge has found.
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Auckland deputy mayor hails 'critical infrastructure'
Auckland Deputy Mayor Bill Cashmore says the start of work on a third main rail line from Quay Park to Wiri is vital to the future growth of areas south of the city.
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Environmental group 'incredibly disappointed' about mining permit
An environmental group said a permit granted this week to a mining company in the south Coromandel showed the government had failed its promise there would be no new mines on Department of…
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Christchurch mosque shooter's sentencing: Live reporting banned
Live reporting from the sentencing of the Christchurch mosques gunman has been banned.
