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The Taxpayers’ Union has obtained figures showing Wellington City Council have spent over $20,000 compiling a vinyl collection for Wellington Library.

With the abundance of choice that we have, when it comes to choosing exercise options, it can be hard to decide what’s important to add in to a workout.

Workers who look after New Zealand’s most vulnerable will be on their way to getting what they deserve, when a new revised agreement comes into force in April next year.

Cancer Society of New Zealand Incorporated, through its commercial arm Daffodil Enterprises Limited, is pleased to once again be giving away 100,000 tubes of its top quality sunscreen to schools.

Once again New Zealand you have supported our annual appeal and your donations will support our services for the 620,000 New Zealanders with a diagnosis of arthritis.

Alok Sharma will arrive in Auckland today as the first UK minister to visit New Zealand since the EU referendum.

The world premiere of National Geographic’s new docu-series CONTINENT 7: ANTARCTICA, which premiered in Christchurch, and at Scott Base in Antarctica this evening, has been met with both excitement and admiration.

Corrections Minister Judith Collins has welcomed a new law that makes it simpler to hold offenders and bailees to account when they are subject to conditions prohibiting the use of drugs and alcohol.

Police are looking for 45-year-old Thames woman Melinda Tupuhi who has not been seen since Saturday 5 November

Buyer sentiment has tumbled to a historical low in the ASB Housing Confidence Survey. The October quarter report finds a net 26 per cent of people think it’s a bad time to buy a house, compared to a net 20 per cent three months earlier.

News from NZ Police Two people appeared in court today on charges relating to recent aggravated robberies in Porirua. Yesterday, a 42-year-old man was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery of Bowland in Porirua that morning. The man appeared in the Porirua District Court today on this charge and was remanded in custody to next […]

Police have put two people before the courts today relating to a number of recent aggravated robberies in Porirua.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges has welcomed the NZ Transport Agency’s announcement that it has awarded the contract for construction of the West Coast’s new $25.8 million Taramakau Bridge to Fulton Hogan.

At 11.56pm on Tuesday 9 November 2016 Police and Fire Service were called to a fire at a Rainford Street, Mt Roskill address.

I’ve compiled the projections from the four main “poll of polls” sites in the US. They are Five Thirty Eight, Huffington Post, Real Clear Politics and the New York Times. The only states they disagree on is Nevada and North Carolina. If they are accurate then Clinton wins 322 to 216. Or with RCP, it […]

The NZDUSD opens at 0.7368 (mid-rate) this morning.

Nov. 8 (BusinessDesk) - Vegetables New Zealand has signed an agreement with the government to share the cost of managing biosecurity procedures as it faced being charged for some of the costs with no input otherwise.

Like many of you, even though I cannot vote, I've taken an interest in the US Presidential election that lies somewhere between keen and visceral.
This isn't a new thing. America looms large in our in culture, historically and in the second-by-second sense of social media. The decisions of American voters bear directly on New Zealand's welfare. It's sport and reality TV and the news combined.
But this time has seemed different. The usual voyeurism of election-watching seems to have tilted over into something else. Читать дальше...

Nov. 8 (BusinessDesk) - The Environment Court has ordered would-be seabed ironsands miner Trans Tasman Resources to make public large amounts of evidence relating to the environmental impacts of its plans to mine iron ore off the coast of Whanganui.

A woman today may be in the most powerful position in world politics. MARGO NEAS and SHAR DAVIS look at what it has taken to break down barriers. IMAGE: Margot Neas

Tags: General Debate

Nov. 9 (BusinessDesk) - Wall Street advanced, recovering from earlier losses, amid signs that US voters are favouring Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to become the next president.

A discussion on Twitter recently highlighted an important – and hard-to-understand – dimension of housing markets. Namely, what is the link between new construction – which is usually expensive – and housing affordability?

The DIA e-mailed me this week to say that they are releasing the data below, sought by Nicky Hagar since February 2015, showing calls and texts from Jason Ede to me between January to August 2011 when Jason worked for Ministerial Services.   So eliminating the one minute ones which would be no answer/voicemails, this […]

Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force A New Zealand Defence Force aircraft found the three fishermen who have been missing at sea off Kiribati since last week.Media Release 9 November 2016 A New Zealand Defence Force aircraft found the three fishermen who have been missing at sea off Kiribati since last week. NZDF FINDS […]