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Emotional start to Te Matatini performances
National kapa haka festival Te Matatini has started in Hastings today with an emotionally charged opening performance from Auckland
National kapa haka festival Te Matatini has started in Hastings today with an emotionally charged opening performance from Auckland
A motorcyclist who collided with a school bus south of Whangarei was flown to the Middlemore Hospital with spinal injuries. The crash
A 47-year-old Northland woman remains in a stable but critical condition following a serious vehicle crash on the Kamo bypass. The
I thank the committee for the opportunity to make a personal submission on voluntary euthanasia which I believe to be one of the most
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Waiting for home help to arrive and worried that she would be left to fend for herself, 96-year-old Trixie Cottingham tried to make
Hawke's Bay teen sentenced for causing crash that killed a young American.
A Napier man with a "chequered history" was sentenced to five months' home detention yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing thousands
Te Matatini - the meaning of it says it all. "The many faces". It was bestowed upon what had started out back in 1972 as simply
A Tauranga man caught importing ecstasy powder and tablets, who claimed he got the idea from watching a television programme, has
A Tauranga family could lose everything after racking up $380,000 in debt.
Bad weather has forced the start of a major air show to be postponed, as much of the country braces for stormy conditions.
It seems garden tools are in hot demand - with a rise in reported thefts this summer.
The Pukehina man who fell asleep while driving and bowled a mother and her two young children as she pushed a pram has faced his penalty
A Whangarei craft house is worried after discovering a brothel by the same name has opened less than a kilometre away.
Police are investigating a fire that razed a home west of Kaikohe. The alarm was raised just before 11pm on Wednesday, on Jordan
Tropical downpours are drenching the north of the North Island as thunderstorms loom over Northland, Auckland and Waikato.
Two police officers who stopped an Isuzu vehicle that was displaying 'sovereignty' registration plates in Kaitaia's main street on
A thief broke into Levin's Arohanui Hospice Shop, kicked down doors and stole their computer and a pair of large bolt cutters - "probably
A Levin family has been left homeless after a stopbank on their property burst its banks at 3.30am, sending a raging torrent of water
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The warm summer has been a good one for boaties in Napier but it has also seen a slight spike in thefts of marine gear. Among 11
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A man who held up McDonald's in Whanganui with a knife has been given time behind bars. And his partner who swiped a getaway car
New Zealand is now experiencing the worst of the fire season, a top officer says, with a dangerous combination of high temperatures and low relative humidity creating tinder-dry conditions across eastern hot-spots.
It's a question summer-deprived Wellingtonians couldn't be blamed for asking: Why is Australia sweltering in a heat wave while their own city hasn't broken 25C all season?
TONGUE-PIERCER: Art + Body owner Julie Paama-Pengelly watches Siobhan Mikaere demonstrate the piercing of Sunny Yu Sun's tongue. PHOTO
A bush fire near a Taupo native forest is well under control but it will take crews another few days to make sure it's completely out.
Two serious house fires have broken out in the North Island.