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No, pensioners aren't getting a Christmas bonus
Superannuitants are being warned not to fall for a new scam.
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ACC backs down on less flexible working from home policy
10 Dec 2025The agency planned to require staff to work in the office three days a week, rather than two.
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New rules for small-scale butchers
The government is looking to cut red tape for small meat processors and is also exploring how homekill meat could be made suitable for sale.
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Gisborne flytipping surges more than 50 percent
10 Dec 2025Rubbish left outside the transfer station has cost ratepayers $570,000.
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Rotorua Night Market to return to city centre, ending 'foolish' trial
10 Dec 2025The council has cut short a trial move to Kuirau Park after just two months.
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Cash-strapped councils can't afford SNA compensation
10 Dec 2025A regional councillor who lobbied for years for compensation for landowner affected by SNAs says the government's changes are sound, but case compensation on the West Coast was a "pipe dream".
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Lake to be drained in fight against invasive clams
The invasive clam Corbicula fluminea was found in Lake Rotomanu on 8 November, the first discovery in NZ outside the Waikato River.
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In pictures: 150 years of quirky Kiwi collectibles
11 Dec 2025Christine Fernyhough's private collection of NZ objects - including a rare albino kiwi specimen and 'Molly' the stout-legged moa - have been highlighted in a new book.
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Drugged driver ignored pleas to stop as he drove car across train tracks, killing three
10 Dec 2025Norton Sowerby tried to deny he was the driver when speaking to police after the crash.
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'It's not safe in Auckland anymore': Locals worried after fatal bus stabbing
10 Dec 2025The cordon in Glen Innes has been lifted, and locals are trying to get on with daily routines, but some do not feel safe anymore. Audio
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School not blamed over mouldy lunches, but fixes needed
NZ Food Safety says the most plausible explanation is lunches meant to be served the week before were accidentally mixed in. Audio
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Double-bunk cell death: Family wants Corrections held accountable
16 Dec 2025The 69-year-old's death is the third homicide investigation involving inmates in double-bunk cells at Mt Eden prison since September last year. Audio
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Luxon marmite jab in running for 'Quote of the Year'
10 Dec 2025Politicians have dominated this year's list, along with some frank conservationists.
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London protest turns to custard as Kiwi cop on holiday makes arrests
10 Dec 2025"I figured my arrests procedures would stick," Waikato cop Mark Strongman said after detaining four people over a Tower of London protest.
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Man accused of fatal Auckland bus stabbing remanded in custody
10 Dec 2025The man accused of a fatal stabbing on an East Auckland bus and wounding another has been remanded in custody.
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Search for masked offender after Upper Hutt bar robbery
10 Dec 2025Hutt Valley Police are appealing for information after a masked offender brandishing a firearm approached bar staff at Quinns Post bar.
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From Bella to Bobo: Top dog names revealed
Names that leapt out of the pack this year included Chicabella, Chico Chan and Gyeoul Winter.
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Mark Lundy no longer has curfew, is making friends
10 Dec 2025The convicted murderer is expanding his social contacts, but isn't able to have social media accounts.
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Mount Victoria tunnel reopens after crash
10 Dec 2025The Transport Agency says the Mount Victoria tunnel has now fully reopened after a crash.
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Toxic algae warning for Selwyn River
10 Dec 2025Health NZ said people should avoid the area and animals should not be allowed near the river until the health warning was lifted.
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New Plymouth readers check out more than 667,000 books
A historical novel set during the Vietnam War was at the top of the list of adult fiction issues - again.
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Black Power members sentenced for the murder of gang rival
10 Dec 2025One of the men claims he struggles to sleep at night, haunted by the screams of his victim's young family.
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New Plymouth's crisis recovery café gets government funding boost
Crisis cafés offer an alternative to brightly lit, busy, clinical spaces, says the mental health minister.
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The internal journey of the ingested $33,500 locket
10 Dec 2025A Fabergé pendant swallowed by a man during a heist made global headlines and raised the question how exactly it was "recovered". Audio
