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Rugby: Hore feels like Super rugby rookie
You can forgive veteran Hurricanes captain Andrew Hore for feeling like a rookie on his first day of training with the Super 15 franchise this year
From Chastity to Chaz: an unexpected highlight at Sundance
When Helen Barlow was offered a ticket for Becoming Chaz she went to a film she might not have chosen and ended up having one of her most enlightening experiences of the Sundance festival.
House-sale row turns deadly
A frenzied attack on a couple that left a man brain-dead may have been the result of a family feud over the sale of an Auckland property.
$1.5b leaky-schools nightmare keeps Tolley awake
The cost of fixing the leaky-school problem has risen to around $1.5bn - but Anne Tolley admits she doesn't know where the money will come from.
Council looks for power to ban street prostitutes
Prostitutes could be banned from street trading in Auckland and beyond after a Super City council vote.
Qantas jet forced into rapid descent
Qantas' mechanical woes continue, with an aircraft flying from Adelaide to Melbourne forced into rapid descent after its cabin depressurised today.
Rugby: Surgery for Sharpe
Western Force captain Nathan Sharpe will miss approximately four to six weeks of pre-season training after undergoing laparoscopic surgery to repair a hernia.
Yellow snaps up bulk buy website
Yellow Pages Group has bought a small online bulk-buying company as part of its massive and fraught restructuring.
Family pleads for help in finding missing motorist
Alex Binns turns 70 on Wednesday but instead of celebrating, his family are pleading for help to find him.
Girl, 8, plied with alcohol, court told
A young woman who has accused a former Hastings jockey of repeated rape, sexual and physical abuse from the age of six, told a court today he began plying her with alcohol when she was about eight.