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![Family: NZer cocaine accused was duped](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Family: NZer cocaine accused was duped
Sharon Armstrong, former Maori Language Commission deputy chief executive, has been detained in Buenos Aires.
![Iroquois use 'extravagant'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Iroquois use 'extravagant'
The Prime Minister has been accused of inappropriately "commandeering" the air force to get to photo opportunities and exclusive events after using an Air Force Iroquois to get to the V8s in Hamilton and back to Auckland.
![Family guilty of muzzling dogs with insulation tape, mistreatment](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Family guilty of muzzling dogs with insulation tape, mistreatment
A Northland family who muzzled dogs with insulation tape and left them in a dark and dirty shelter...
![Doctor's second shot at proposal after earthquake](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Doctor's second shot at proposal after earthquake
Kenny Rao gets a second shot at proposing today after fearing his $27,000 engagement ring was lost in the Christchurch earthquake.
![Pike River operation cost $10.9m](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Pike River operation cost $10.9m
The police-led rescue and recovery operation launched in the wake of the Pike River tragedy has cost nearly $11 million, according to figures in a detailed breakdown released this afternoon.
![NRL: Hayne accepts early guilty plea](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
NRL: Hayne accepts early guilty plea
Parramatta fullback Jarryd Hayne will miss two NRL matches after he accepted the early guilty plea on his headbutting charge today.
![Concert Review: Bruno Mars, Vector Arena](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Concert Review: Bruno Mars, Vector Arena
Bruno Mars' enamoured young crowd sings his lyrics right back at him, but none with more conviction than "I think I wanna marry you".
![Cries of 'utu' as Vanessa Pickering's murderer sentenced](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Cries of 'utu' as Vanessa Pickering's murderer sentenced
Malcolm George Chaston has been sentenced to preventive detention for murdering Christchurch woman Vanessa Anne Pickering, whose body was found down a bank near Christchurch's Godley Head more than a year ago.
![First snowfall of 2011 for central North Island](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
First snowfall of 2011 for central North Island
Snow is falling in the central North Island for the first time this year and strong winds continue to lash both the North and South islands.
![Floods probe to hear desperate final phone call](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Floods probe to hear desperate final phone call
An inquiry will hear the distressing final phone calls of a mother and son killed in the Queensland floods.