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Round 2 of the Demon Energy New Zealand Drifting Championship brought a smoke storm to Tauranga's Baypark Arena over the weekend, a sold out crowd witnessing some of the closest fought battles ever seen at the custom built motorsport circuit.

Advocates for the Poor Increase Poverty Auckland Mayoral candidate Stephen Berry accepts that in Auckland, survival is becoming increasingly difficult for families on low incomes as housing and rental costs explode. “This is not the fault of landlords, ...

A 64-year-old English solo mountaineer was rescued from the western slopes of Mt Mabel, 7km south of Aoraki Mt Cook, at around 11pm last night after slipping on snow and injuring a leg on rocks.

In that library are shelves - you can check things out, look at them and return them.

The figures are staggering: 13 women, 10 men, and 9 children on average killed every year as a result of family violence in New Zealand. Approximately 80% of family violence goes unreported, meaning that almost half a million family violence incidents could ...

More than $400,000 worth of protection work designed to better protect Kaitaia and the wider Awanui catchment from the effects of flooding is due to get under way next month. The Northland Regional Council recently let two contracts; the first for roughly ...

The NZD has continued its poor start to the new year in a risk-off environment with investors concerned about China and the health of the global economy. The NZD has lost 3 cents against the greenback, since the markets reopened last Monday.

Labour Finance Spokesperson and Chair of the Future of Work Commission Grant Robertson will travel to Paris this week to attend the OECD Future of Work Forum and to London where he will also undertake meetings and visits. “We are at the halfway mark in ...

News from NZ Police Wellington Police are warning about sophisticated overseas scams targeting New Zealanders. Police are investigating a number of serious fraud complaints where New Zealand residents have transferred large sums of money into off shore accounts in sophisticated scams. The police investigations involve an investment scam where victims are called from Hong Kong […]

The government needs to take a step back from its health rhetoric and look at the impact that its continued underfunding of the health system is having on older people, says Labour’s Senior Citizens spokesperson Ruth Dyson.

Wellington Police are warning the public about sophisticated overseas scams currently targeting New Zealanders.

Officers working on Operation Solitaire, the homicide investigation into the death on Thursday, January 7 of 41 year-old mother of two, Joanne Pert, are heartened by the public response to appeals for access to private CCTV footage of events on Shore ...

Jan. 11 (BusinessDesk) - IkeGPS Group has raised $900,000 from three institutional investors to fund expansion in the US market, where the laser measurement tool developer is considering a secondary listing.

News from NZ Police Two people were injured in a crash on the Napier-Taupo Road, approximately 5 kilometres north of Te Pohue, early this morning. A Toyota van left the road and crashed 6 metres down a bank. Two occupants were trapped. Fire Service extracted a woman from the vehicle. She was being taken by […]

At 3.20am on Monday 11th January 2016, Police were advised of a crash on State Highway 5, (Napier-Taupo Road) approximately 5 kilometres north of Te Pohue.

Jan. 11 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar fell after a better-than-expected US jobs report and amid continued investor concern about a slowdown in China.

At 0351 hours this morning a distress was heard on VHF Channel 16 from a 12m long line charter vessel declaring they had hit rocks in the Bay of Islands area. Shortly after contact via VHF Radio was lost with the vessel however an EPIRB signal was ...

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Jan. 11 (BusinessDesk) - After last week’s carnage on global equity markets, investors are eyeing US corporate earnings for any reason to lift the mood, while China’s latest trade data, due on Wednesday, will also be scrutinised.

This is a big story. ABC reports: Federal Greens leader Richard Di Natale has partially broken with his party’s policy, saying that he does not believe genetically modified crops pose a significant risk to human health. The Greens oppose the use of genetically modified crops, arguing they pose significant risks to agricultural ecosystems and human […]

As the new year kicks off, it seems like an appropriate time to reflect on some wider trends – as Patrick recently did in this excellent wrap-up of the year just gone. Looking forward, one of the most exciting trends relates to how technology will impact on how we travel. This post marks the first in what I hope to be a long-running series on transport technologies. [...]

Press Release – MetService The weekend saw some fine weather for most parts of New Zealand, with just the odd shower in some places. Severe Weather Warnings and Watches were issued for severe gales in southern parts of the country overnight Saturday and into Sunday morning. …Tropical air in the north and a front in […]

Press Release – University Of The South Pacific The University of the South Pacific (USP) hosted a farewell lunch to acknowledge and thank the outgoing First Secretary (Regional Development Programme) of the New Zealand High Commission, Dr Helen Leslie on 8 January 2016. 11 January 2016 PRESS RELEASE USP farewells New Zealand diplomat The University […]

Press Release – Caritas Aotearoa In the wake of the historic climate agreement in Paris, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is wasting no time in contributing to a global movement responding to climate change.CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 January 2016 From Paris to the Pacific: putting COP21 agreement into practice […]

News from Statistics New Zealand An “unusually high number” of residential buildings were consented in Wellington in November – the total of 328 was was the highest number since April 2008. “An unusually high number of new dwellings were consented in the region, with a spike in consents for apartments and retirement village units,” said […]