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New Zealand, 5 December 2016 – Dimension Data, the global ICT solutions and services provider, today published its top IT predictions for 2017 , and the focus on digital is set to remain the key trend in the industry for the next 12 months.

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG®), one of the world’s leading hotel companies, has announced they will use only cage-free eggs worldwide by 2025. IHG operates seven hotels in New Zealand under the Holiday Inn, Crowne Plaza and InterContinental brands.

Wellington City Council’s one-stop-shop Earthquake Recovery Information Centre (ERIC) will be opened by the Mayor Justin Lester at 1pm on Tuesday 6 December. ERIC will bring together agencies from across the spectrum to help individuals and businesses ...

Conservation Minister Maggie Barry today announced that New Zealand will take on a leadership role internationally, working with others to control and eradicate invasive alien species and protect native habitats.

Data released today (1 December) shows that tourism expenditure in Northland passed the $1 billion mark for the first time ever as rapid growth rates in international tourism continue to benefit regional economies around the country.

The search is on for the endangered native forest ringlet butterfly.

Part of the northeast Waikato is to be withdrawn from the currently notified Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1 – Waikato and Waipa River Catchments to allow for consultation with Hauraki iwi to occur. The land area of just over 120,000 hectares ...

Mon 05 Dec 2016 Bringing the Christmas spirit to life this week at Tūpare

Two thirds of the shipping containers at Peacocks Gallop will be removed today, with the remainder near Deans Head going next Monday.

A plan to relocate the iconic national sound archives from Christchurch to Wellington is a direct result of the government’s obsession with centralisation, says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament Rt Hon Winston Peters.

800 tonnes of sea lettuce was collected from the Matua/Otumoetai foreshore in Tauranga Harbour last week. It’s the first collection for summer, co-ordinated by Bay of Plenty Regional and Tauranga City Councils.

The Commission has now completed its seismic steel mesh investigations into five of the companies under investigation. Three companies, who cannot be named at this time, have been advised that the Commission intends to issue criminal proceedings ...

In the early hours of this morning a car has crashed into a house on Otumoetai Road.

Broad USD weakness following Friday’s payroll report has helped push the NZD back above 71 US cents. Although the report showed that jobs increased by more than expected (178k jobs Vs expected 170k jobs) and unemployment fell by 0.3% to a nine year low ...

In 1920, the American federal government amended its constitution to prohibit the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. What happened subsequently, over the 13 years till repeal, became a case study in the economics of illicit drug markets.
That's the context in which I've looked at the business of drugs in New Zealand in 2016 for Episode 5 of From Zero: a supplier-driven trade which is seeing methamphetamine displace cannabis as the social drug of choice in some communities. Читать дальше...

Ground meat reminds me of arguments.
When I was a kid, the adult arguments I remember were often followed by bolognaise. I'm pretty sure my child brain twisted the memories a bit. There were likely arguments when mince wasn't served, and we probably ate a fair bit of it without fights. But one of my strongest memories is of awkward dinners where conversation was a forced kind of "don't let on to the kids" friendly. To this day I don't cook with mince. Funny how random moments as a kid shape your tastes as an adult. Читать дальше...

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Getting through the quake, and preparing for future emergencies is the topic of students in this show on Wellington Access Radio.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Press Release The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine remembers the passing of the first woman martyr of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Comrade Shadia Abu Ghazaleh, whose life was lost on November 28, 1968, as she prepared a bomb in her home for […]

Press Release WHO On the occasion of International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, marked by the UN since 1977[1], WHO launched a 2-year report on health access today at an event in Gaza to highlight how the Israeli permit system and physical barriers obstruct health access for Palestinian patients, ambulances and health workers. […]

Barry Soper writes: Two years ago Labour’s Grant Robertson declared that he couldn’t stand by and see the party polling at 24 percent and not have a crack at the leadership. Today his feet must be itching. The latest Roy Morgan opinion poll’s put Labour’s popularity at just 23 percent, enough to give its leader […]

Hot on the heels of last weeks flurry of consultations, we now have another one to add the mix and it’s one that could definitely use some help to stop Auckland Transport going rogue with a nonsensical and dangerous plan.

Press Release – New Zealand Institute of Architects L. Mason Rattray of Unitecs Architecture Department has received New Zealands top prize for final-year architecture students.New Zealand’s top student architecture prize-winner announced L. Mason Rattray of Unitec’s Architecture Department has received New Zealand’s top prize for final-year architecture students. Rattray was announced as the winner of […]

News from NZ Police Motorists travelling on State Highway Two over the Rimutaka Hill Road should take care as driving conditions are challenging. Poor visibility has caused three minor crashes this morning. Police request that motorists travelling in the area keep their speed down, extend their following distance and be alert. Content Sourced from scoop.co.nz […]

Press Release – MaD Strength and Conditioning Samara Wright has been selected for the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Federation Training Camp in New Caledonia. Held in December, this is a 10-day training camp, which is run as a culmination of the Oceania Talent Identification Program. She will train … Local teenage weightlifter selected to train in […]