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Professor Dearden, Otago University, has received $11 million from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Enterprise (MBIE) to engineer wasps using gene drive technology. He is only consulting with Māori and regulators, ignoring and side-lining ...

Dunedin (Monday, 29 January 2024) – Consultation on Dunedin’s draft Future Development Strategy is now open and will run until 28 February 2024. The Future Development Strategy (or FDS) will guide how the city grows over the next 30 years and will identify ...

Space Minister Judith Collins is welcoming an agreement with Australia under which up to $6 million will be available to New Zealand researchers. The funding will be available from the Government’s Catalyst Fund to support New Zealand researchers ...

With school bells set to ring for the first time in 2024, almost 40% parents still haven’t started their back-to-school shopping according to new research by The Warehouse. The Warehouse Group’s Chief Product Officer Tania Benyon says back to ...

The Canterbury District will move to a prohibited fire season from 11.59pm Wednesday 31 January, until further notice. A prohibited fire season means no open-air fires are allowed and all fire permits are suspended. The prohibited fire season applies ...

Quick eyes and quick responses saw numerous arrests in central Auckland overnight. Frontline Police and camera operators worked together to respond to a firearms incident and a robbery in the CBD. The first incident occurred on Karangahape Road, at 6.49pm, ...

Tauranga, 30 January 2024 – Te Wahapū o Waihī (TWOW) and Toi Moana Bay of Plenty Regional Council (BOPRC) have partnered in a progressive blue carbon research project of international significance with The Nature Conservancy Aotearoa New Zealand (TNC ...

Kura reo are more popular than ever with Te Mātāwai supporting twice as many of these Māori language learning events in 2023/24 than in the last financial year. Te Mātāwai leads Māori language revitalisation in communities and has invested ...

Grab a picnic blanket and the whānau and head to New Plymouth’s Ngāmotu Beach on Waitangi Day for an afternoon of free live music, kai, and activities for everyone to enjoy with NPDC and Ngāti Te Whiti. Performances at Celebrate Waitangi Day on ...

The National Police Dive Squad will be carrying out a search of a segment of the Avon River to assist staff investigating the death of David Bridgwater. Mr Bridgewater died in the early hours of Thursday 4 January on Carisbrooke Street, Aranui with ...

Government funding will go towards 35 different community events across the country to commemorate Waitangi Day in 2024. The Commemorating Waitangi Day Fund, administered by Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage, supports events that commemorate ...

Te Kurawai o Pūhanga, the reservoir behind the Waimea Community Dam, reached its full capacity and the spillway commenced flowing on Sunday 21 January 2024. “This is a momentous milestone for the project, and I thank all those involved in getting ...

While you might think that all website builders are essentially the same, offering you a quick and easy way to get your site up and running, there's actually a vast difference in the features they offer, which can greatly impact your site's effectiveness ...

The French Café reopens in new space alongside Sid Sahrawat’s new venture, Anise Chef and restaurateur Sid Sahrawat’s vision for a modern Asian eatery becomes a reality this week with the opening of Anise in the space formerly occupied by The ...

Police are urging water goers to make sure they are properly prepared, after rescuing a paddleboarder who was blown 5 kilometres out on Lake Taupō. “It’s a classic example of the unexpected happening,” Senior Constable Barry Shepherd QSM says ...

As water restrictions ease in Picton and Waikawa, residents and visitors are still encouraged to save water and make ‘every drop count.’ From today Picton and Waikawa residents can use sprinklers again on alternate days as well as hand-held hoses. ...

The Government will reform financial services regulations, ensuring clarity and cutting red tape for both institutions and Kiwis, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Minister Andrew Bayly announced at a Financial Services Council conference today. The reforms ...

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The Herald reports: Wellington City Council has decided to replace its parking meter system at a cost it will not disclose, despite paying $1.5 million to install a new sensor network as recently as 2016. The new pay-by-plate meters that went live this month are a paperless system that uses a vehicle licence plate number, rather than […]

News from NZ Police Police will be monitoring gang movements travelling through the Porirua region for a funeral tomorrow morning around 8am. Motorists can expect to see a large number of gang members and associates travelling around the region. Police will have a visible presence around Whenua Tapu Cemetery and surrounding areas. We urge all […]

News from NZ Council of Trade Unions NZCTU Economist Craig Renney is calling on Finance Minister Nicola Willis to scrap her plan to cut frontline services, after she acknowledged today that this is likely to happen. “In September last year, the CTU showed the areas that were at risk – these included the courts, biosecurity, […]

Celebrity Trevor Island is Aotearoa’s newest, funniest, and farmiest gameshow coming to Te Whanganui-a-Tara for this year’s New Zealand Fringe Festival. Brought to you by the company behind the cult-classic MILK series and award-winning hit RATKING, ...

The Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says New Zealand must be even more open and direct if it is to improve its ranking as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. The just-released 2023 Transparency International Corruption Perception Index shows ...

Toyota Group Vision: Inventing our path forward, together Toyota City, Japan, Jan 30, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Today, Toyota Motor Corporation Chairman of the Board of Directors (Chairman) Akio Toyoda addressed an audience of chairmen, presidents, ...

New Zealand is now ranked third in the international corruption perceptions ranking prepared annually by Transparency International. Since the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) was revised in 2012 New Zealand has been ranked first or first equal ...