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  • Rugby league: Ron Coote named Australia's 14th 'Immortal'

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    Sport
    22 Aug 2024
    The NRL's Provan-Summons Trophy.

    Souths and Easts NRL premiership-winning player Ron Coote has been announced as the 14th rugby league Immortal.

    Rugby league: Ron Coote named Australia's 14th 'Immortal'
  • Port's mandatory fitness test for staff concerning, union says

    News
    New Zealand Business
    8 Aug 2024
    Containers being unloaded at Lyttelton Port

    The assessments were introduced at the end of July, recommended by accident investigators after a staff member was killed on the job in 2022.

    Lyttelton Port Company's mandatory fitness test for staff concerning, Maritime Union says
  • New weapons in the war on weeds

    Audio
    environment
    30 Jul 2024
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    AgResearch's Map and Zap device is a glimpse of a future without herbicides Video, Audio

  • New weapons in the war on weeds

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    The Detail environment
    30 Jul 2024
    No caption

    AgResearch's Map and Zap device is a glimpse of a future without herbicides

    Video, Audio

    Robots with lasers, killing weeds
  • Call for government ban on rifles easily cut down into handguns

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    New Zealand Politics
    8 Jul 2024
    Part of the gun in hand and finger on the trigger

    At least one in five Alfa carbines and Alfa hunters brought into NZ in three years has been passed on to criminals, police say. Audio

    Call for government ban on rifles easily cut down into handguns
  • Campaigners want tighter restrictions on specific rifle

    Audio
    law
    8 Jul 2024

    Gun control campaigners want tighter restrictions on a type of rifle that is easily cut down into a hand gun. Police estimate at least 163 of the 782 Alfa carbines and Alfa hunters brought into the… Audio

  • Māori All Blacks honour teammate

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    Sport
    25 Jun 2024
    Connor Garden-Bachop celebrates a try for the Highlanders against Reds in 2023.

    The Māori All Blacks are mourning the loss of teammate Connor Garden-Bachop.

    Māori All Blacks honour teammate Connor Garden-Bachop
  • Who are the new duo topping the Rich List?

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    New Zealand Business
    10 Jun 2024
    Toy company Zuru co-owner Nick Mowbray.

    They're the richest siblings in New Zealand, so what do we know about the Mowbrays? Audio

    Who are New Zealand's richest siblings, Zuru owners Mat and Nick Mowbray?
  • Is a house really an investment? There are plenty of reasons to think otherwise

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    New Zealand Business
    7 Jun 2024
    Building, House, property, yard, Residence, Suburban, Home, housing, Street, Mortgage

    It might be a big part of your financial life, but should it be?

    Is a house really an investment?
  • Trump's attacks on US justice system could be useful to Putin

    News
    World world politics
    3 Jun 2024
    Former President Donald Trump comments to members of the media after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court, Thursday, May 30, 2024, in New York. Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes as a New York jury found him guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through hush money payments to a porn actor who said the two had sex. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

    As Trump made unfounded claims his trial was "rigged", Putin was probably "rubbing his hands with glee", expert says.

    Trump's attacks on US justice system after guilty verdict could be useful to autocrats like Putin
  • The Week in Politics: Willis sails against strong headwinds

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    New Zealand Politics
    24 May 2024
    Nicola Willis at a National Party conference, May 2024, Palmerston North.

    Preparing to present one of the most difficult budgets, a National MP gets himself into trouble and the First Home Buyers Grant is scrapped.

    The Week in Politics: Willis sails against strong headwinds
  • 'Standing room only': Packed meeting over closure of Reefton aged care home

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    New Zealand West Coast
    8 May 2024
    Close up hands of senior elderly woman patient suffering from pakinson's desease symptom. Mental health and elderly care concept

    Reefton people desperate to save their only rest home packed into a meeting on Tuesday.

    'Standing room only': Packed meeting over closure of Reefton aged care home
  • Town's only aged care home closes

    News
    New Zealand West Coast
    29 Apr 2024
    Close up hands of senior elderly woman patient suffering from pakinson's desease symptom. Mental health and elderly care concept

    Reefton's aged residential care (ARC) facility, Ziman House, is now permanently closed.

    Reefton elderly care home Ziman House closing permanently
  • Missing man found after nearly 24 hours in bush, airlifted to hospital

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    New Zealand emergency services
    16 Apr 2024
    The man was kayaking down the Kaituna River on Monday when he became separated from his kayak.

    A man is being airlifted to hospital after losing his kayak and spending almost 24 hours in the bush.

    Missing man found after nearly 24 hours in bush, airlifted to hospital
  • Roads crack, flights grounded as rare earthquake hits US east coast

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    World
    6 Apr 2024
    First responders arrive to inspect homes in Lebanon, New Jersey, the epicenter of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake.

    The Statue of Liberty swayed as a "violent rumble" swept through New York.

    Roads crack, flights grounded as rare earthquake hits US east coast
  • Haka response a 'learning process' - Freyberg High principal

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    New Zealand Te Ao Māori
    19 Mar 2024
    ACT Party leader David Seymour

    No students have been stood down or suspended after Thursday's controversial haka in front of ACT leader David Seymour.

    Freyberg High School's David Seymour haka: Thousands sign letter supporting students
  • Seymour haka: Spitting doesn't break tikanga, expert says

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    New Zealand education
    15 Mar 2024
    ACT leader David Seymour leaving National Party leader Christopher Luxon's house on 21 November, 2023.

    A tikanga and haka expert says spitting is "quite common", and that the school needs to have a hui on the meaning of haka and how to utilise it.

    Freyberg High School says students' behaviour during Seymour's visit 'totally unacceptable'
  • The pivotal moment 'godlike creature' Shrek the Sheep was found

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    New Zealand Country
    14 Mar 2024

    It has been almost 20 years since New Zealand - and the world - fell in love with a rugged, rural, hirsute South Islander. Audio

    Farmer remembers the pivotal moment 'godlike creature' Shrek the Sheep was found
  • Tairāwhiti residents fear silt dust may make the place unliveable

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    New Zealand environment
    31 Jan 2024
    There are about a dozen "bad days" for dust each year in the lower Waiapu Valley, north of Gisborne, resident Graeme Atkins says.

    Residents in parts of Tairāwhiti fear a future on their land is in jeopardy with silt dust making the place unliveable.

    Tairāwhiti residents fear silt dust may make the place unliveable
  • Passengers describe chaos as flames engulfed Japan Airlines jet

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    World
    3 Jan 2024
    This photo provided by Jiji Press shows a Japan Airlines plane on fire on a runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2, 2024. A Japan Airlines plane was in flames on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on January 2 after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, media reports said.

    First came the shock of the crash, then came heat and stinging smoke as the jet sped along the runway on fire. Video

    Japan jet crash: Passengers describe chaos inside flight 516
  • Man walks days to fundraise for rescue helicopter that saved his life

    News
    New Zealand
    8 Dec 2023
    Trevor Moore

    A Dannevirke man has completed the walk just six months after suffering horrific injuries when cutting down a tree in the rural back blocks.

    Man walks days to fundraise for rescue helicopter that saved his life
  • The troubled past of Lynne Martin, found dead after being jailed for murdering her father

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    New Zealand crime
    25 Nov 2023
    Lynne Martin at her trial in the High Court at Gisborne.

    It is difficult to imagine a level of sibling enmity greater than that which existed between John Allison and his sister Lynne Martin.

    The troubled past of Lynne Martin, found dead after being jailed for murdering her father
  • Daughter found guilty for murdering elderly father by setting his house alight.

    News
    New Zealand crime
    22 Nov 2023
    Lynne Maree Martin at trial.

    The jury in the trial of Lynne Maree Martin at the High Court in Gisborne reached their verdict after about two-and-a-half hours of deliberations and delivered their verdict on Wednesday afternoon.

    Lynne Martin: Guilty verdict in arson murder case
  • AFL club pays out record $6m to paedophile's victim

    News
    World sport
    9 Nov 2023
    Adam Kneale was subject to abuse when he volunteered at the club as a boy.

    The Western Bulldogs have been ordered to fork out a NZ$6.4m compensation to a child sex abuse victim, after a jury ruled the club failed to stop a paedophile who preyed on young boys.

    AFL club Western Bulldogs ordered to pay $6.4m to child sexual abuse victim
  • K' Road car park removal: Businesses unimpressed though full plan delayed

    News
    New Zealand Auckland Region
    9 Nov 2023
    David Yeates, owner of Expert Shoe Repair on Karangahape Road for 25 years, said he felt business had slowed down since bus lane signs were installed.

    A Karangahape Road business owner says there's talk of legal action over AT plans to strip out car parking though the full plan to expand bus lanes is delayed until next year.

    Karangahape Road car park removal: Businesses unimpressed though full plan delayed
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