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Pokies loss sparked smash-and-grab spree
A man has pleaded guilty to 16 charges, mostly connected to burglaries in central Dargaville last month.
A man has pleaded guilty to 16 charges, mostly connected to burglaries in central Dargaville last month.
Kiwi gamblers have poured $843 million into pokies - the "crack cocaine" of gambling in New Zealand - in the last year.
Maori Party co-leader and Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell says he is sick and tired of attending tangi of Maori who have died as a result
A new house and car are on the cards for a Dunedin couple who won $13.3 million in Lotto, at what must be New Zealand's luckiest Lotto outlet.
COMMENT: The rise of sports gambling means more money for sporting bodies -- and more scope for match-fixing.
Businesses needs to recognise that when it's granted the right to operate, it has to accept the responsibilities of acting in a sustainable way.
He was a big star in the private equity world. Now, Andrew Caspersen is facing years in prison.
In a quest to maintain its footing, Maryland's largest casino is investing $200 million to add new amenities.
Pokie spending is rising at the fastest rate in five years as immigrants and tourists swell the coffers of pubs and clubs.
Lotto tickets may give ray of hope, but there are free competitions, write Mary Holm.
New Zealanders are spending more again on the pokies but spending per person is static, despite better economic times.
SkyCity Entertainment Group, New Zealand's only listed casino company, expects its first-half profit to soar.
Better results from its flagship Auckland property and its struggling Adelaide operations mean a good start to the 2016 financial year.
Casino's backtrack the second big consumer failure this month after Harvey Norman's cut-price furniture fiasco.
Increases to the proportion of revenue clubs and bars with pokie machines give to community groups will be delayed under a new Government proposal.
After a conscience-wrestle that culminated in a tied vote, Buller district councillors last night quashed an application for more pokie machines in Westport.
Sixteen months after a Government decision to end most of its contracts, the Problem Gambling Foundation has won a year’s further reprieve.
A Rotorua Lotto player walked into his local dairy this afternoon with no idea he was $24 million richer.
Best friends Margaret and Edith won $1 million, while another winner has just claimed the $24.3m jackpot.
Two items published on nzherald.co.nz — on March 11 and this one on May 8 — about court actions involving Malcolm Rabson incorrectly reported the nature of the judgments.
The revamped design of the SkyCity convention centre has divided critics, with one urban design expert saying it looks like "a ship beached up on Nelson St".
Final designs unveiled following months of negotiations. And it still costs more than the original deal between SkyCity and the Government.
One of New Zealand's biggest convicted drug smugglers spent $15 million at SkyCity casino - while receiving the unemployment benefit.
Lady Luck has waved her magic wand upon Peter Bromhead, who claims to have won the chance to spin Lotto's lucrative spinning wheel.
Sunset is far away for an industry that deserves and earns the government support it gets, writes John Allen.
Internal Affairs are investigating the legality of children's amusement machines which experts say are grooming young people to play the pokies.
The winners were from Auckland and Hamilton bought their tickets at Mitchell's Paper Power in Auckland, Willowbank Superette in Auckland and Countdown Te Rapa in Hamilton.
The Government is looking at clamping down on online overseas betting by New Zealanders, saying it deprives the local racing industry of important income.