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Students will have their ball, parents vow
Rangitoto College "blackmailed" and "bullied" students for knowledge of planned after-balls, parents say.
Rangitoto College "blackmailed" and "bullied" students for knowledge of planned after-balls, parents say.
Parents may organise their own ball for Rangitoto students if the school cancels next year's ball.
New Zealand's biggest secondary school bans school balls after parents helped students to organise a boozy after-ball function.
An Auckland man is gunning for soft drink giant Coca-Cola Amatil.
Convicted murderer George Baker has released a fellow prisoner who he took hostage yesterday.
George Baker (above left) murdered Liam Ashley (above right) in the back of a prison van three years ago. Police and prison officials are now trying to prevent another tragedy, after Baker took a hostage at Auckland Prison this afternoon.
Nici Wickes finds The Engine Room's goats' cheese souffle is worth breaking every dietary rule for.
Student set upon with metal bars while walking home last year says she hopes her attackers learn a lesson in jail.
Four young men accused of a violent rampage on the North Shore last year plead guilty to all charges.
Tetrodotoxin found in the dead dogs' vomit and in a sea slug sample taken from Narrow Neck Beach.
Terrified bank customers cowered as a man pointed his pistol at tellers and ordered them to hand over their money.
Water sports have been cancelled and fishermen warned to stay off the entire Hauraki Gulf this weekend.
North Shore police are seeking an Asian man in connection with this afternoon's robbery.