Hostess sex case pilot wins back job
An Air Nelson pilot sacked for sleeping with a young flight attendant and drinking before a flight has won his job back.
An Air Nelson pilot sacked for sleeping with a young flight attendant and drinking before a flight has won his job back.
A pilot has won his job back after being sacked for a late-night drinking spree during which he had sex with a 19-year-old flight attendant.
Three of the five Rugby World Cup pool matches that were to have been held in Christchurch will remain in the South Island, it was announced this afternoon.
Have you noticed that Americans call a main course an entrée? (They probably say that we call an entrée a main course, but never mind that for a moment.)
Police infiltrated the highest levels of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang in an undercover operation that culminated in mass raids, nearly 30 arrests and the seizure of weapons and explosives today.
An undercover operation dubbed one of the "deepest gang infiltrations" in New Zealand police history has seen 15 arrests and 20 properties raided.
Canterbury DHB chief executive David Meates has invoked memories of Hurricane Katrina to justify evacuating hundreds of elderly out of the Christchurch in the wake of last week's earthquake.
More than 300 elderly people have been moved from quake-damaged residential care centres in Christchurch, some without the knowledge of their families, Canterbury District Health Board (DHB) has admitted.
Authorities in Nelson are working hard to accommodate fleeing Christchurch residents.
An Anglican minister is questioning police inaction against one of their own after his son was severely injured by a 4WD driven by an off-duty officer.
The lost English tourist spotted by a helicopter last night in the Kahurangi National Park says he can't describe the relief he felt when he was found.
The English tourist found last night in the Kahurangi National Park had become disoriented and confused the route he was on for another.
A large search is underway for a missing 30-year-old English tourist, tramping in Kahurangi National Park west of Nelson.
There's a cold beer at the end of this tour, writes Victoria Clark.
Responsible for making events look cool, Michael Hodgson's favourite things are geared toward innovative design.
A plane carrying 44 people has safely made an emergency landing at Blenheim Airport, despite a nose wheel failure.
It used to be deeply naff, drunk only by teens and maybe your nana; so how did cider get its fizz back to be the drink of the summer, asks Nicky Pellegrino.
DOC says the longer a refloated pod of whales are in deep water the better the chances they will not restrand
The New Zealand pinot noir movement is gathering pace and the great and good of the wine world jetted in from Singapore, Stockholm and San Francisco last week to experience Central Otago's take on the grape.
About 70 pilot whales which became stranded at the top of the South Island have made it to deeper water.