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'Like having our throats cut': Couple called into meeting, both told their jobs were gone

Now Didi van Heerden has been awarded $207,000 from the company and its director.

18-year-old cricket star named top young female player in Northern Districts

She was the top wicket-taker in Women’s A cricket with 17 wickets.

Raglan Coastguard rescue four clinging to chilly bin in the water

A vessel in distress was reported at about 11.45am.

Whale reported tangled in fishing gear at Tasman Bay

Project Jonah said the Department of Conservation was trying to locate the whale.

'You can have 2, not 3': Polyamorous throuple's battle to keep names on kids' birth certificates

The Attorney-General has challenged a decision allowing all three parents to be named.

Act triggers rarely used coalition clause amid row with National on firearms registry

It's only been invoked a small number of times.

Police goal of 500 extra officers by November unlikely

A new police campus in Albany will start training recruits on June 30.

Auckland mum considers selling beloved family home due to repeat floods

'We thought it would never happen in our lifetime, but it's happened twice now.'

Search for missing British hiker Eli Sweeting resumes in Milford Sound

The search was temporarily halted on Thursday due to bad weather.

Meet the woman who peels 20kg of horseradish a day

Mandy Steel peels 20kg of horseradish by hand, four days a week.

Ciara-Jordyn Merekara Woods-Ryan has been diagnosed with a rare lung cancer

Ciara-Jordyn Merekara Woods-Ryan has been diagnosed with a rare lung cancer, Pleuropulmonary Blastoma. Video \ Jason Dorday

Ryan Bridge: Our high airfare curse is one of economics not competition

Eighty percent of New Zealand's land is uninhabited.

Son of couple slain by ram 'furious' at how deaths were handled

He believes there has been no accountability, transparency or justice.

Heavy frost a headache for Gisborne orchardists in 1941

"Even Wainui Beach experienced a frost."

Letters: Our rural roads are dangerous for cyclists

OPINION: Rugby rules need an overhaul; is National committing political suicide?

'Off the scale' drug supply fuelling gang clashes in the regions

Homes shot at, cars rammed, drug busts during two months of gang tension.

Prevention pays off: Lifeguards make waves with fewer rescues

There were just 29 rescues at Bay beaches this summer.

Social media ban for under-16s: A good start, or ineffective, ‘half-baked’ populism?

National MP Catherine Wedd has put forward a member’s bill to introduce an age ban.