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Slime fight: 12yo Aucklander takes on global TV giant
A Kiwi girl is taking on Nickelodeon over the use of the word slime.

Focus: Slime Princess' trademark dispute with Nickelodeon
Kartharina Weishede aka Slime Princess is having a trademark dispute with Nickelodeon over the use of 'slime.' / Michael Craig

Focus: Operation Burnham - Inquiry into controversial SAS raid outlined in Hit and Run begins
The extraordinary and historic nature of the inquiry into a controversial NZSAS raid was laid bare amidst concerns over the release of classified and secret information.

Focus: Grey Power speaks out about issues facing older people with defective homes
Resident Bill Rayner talks about the elderly falling victim to leaky, defective appartments. Video / NZ Herald

Soper: Pay freeze an easy move for Jacinda Ardern to sound altruistic
COMMENT: Self-appointed paymaster Jacinda Ardern rendered Remuneration Authority impotent.

Focus: The elderly speak out against bus service changes
The elderly speak out against the loss of a bus service to Green Lane Medical Clinic.

Elderly fight loss of bus service to clinical centre
Auckland Transport says the new bus service is quicker by up to five minutes.

Rosemarie North: Lombok needs help with earthquake recovery
COMMENT: People of Lombok need help to recover from the earthquake.

Government moves to bring 'cowboy' clamping into line
A maximum of $100 will be able to be charged for removal of a wheel clamp.

Focus: Buy your milk at dairies, force supermarkets to compete on price - Fed Farmers
Revolt called for after milk prices labelled "astoundingly high".

Focus: Wallabies Waiheke Hideaway
The Wallabies are holing up at the Waiheke Island Resort, plotting the All Blacks downfall next Saturday.

Focus: Mobil stations 2km apart, 19 cents difference in fuel price. How is this possible?
Focus: Mobil stations 2km apart, 19 cents difference in fuel price. How is this possible?

Focus: Wallabies lock Adam Coleman reflects on first All Blacks test
Wallabies lock Adam Coleman reflects on the first test against the All Blacks, ahead of the second which will take place in Auckland. Video by Brett Phibbs

Where NZ's 1800 new cops will go
Extra police officers on the beat after a $300 million cash injection announced today.

Focus: College occupied in land dispute
A protest group have occupied the site of the recently closed Hato Petera College in Northcote.

Focus: 40,000 tonnes of Auckland's plastic waste about to be transformed
A Kiwi company will begin turning tens of thousands of tonnes of Auckland's plastic waste into concrete as soon as next year.

Focus: Introduce capital gains tax, TWG suggest
Introduce capital gains tax, says Sir Michael Cullen's tax working group.

Focus: Life sentence for murder days after hospital release
Mental health patient Gabriel Yad-Elohim sentenced to life imprisonment for brutal murder.

Focus: Communities flee eruption at Guatemala's Volcano of Fire
About 4000 residents fled Guatemala's Volcano of Fire Monday as red-hot rock and ash spewed into the sky and cascaded down the slopes toward an area devastated by a deadly eruption earlier this year.

'Pure hell': Homes cracking in motorway work, say owners
Southern Motorway construction allegedly causing thousands in damage to homes: residents.

Focus: Conifer Grove homes damaged by nearby roadworks
Conifer Grove residents talk about the nearby roadworks causing inconvenience and damage to their homes.

Focus: IVF treatment gives young couple hope to start a family
The herald spoke to a young couple about their IVF journey after discovering they had severe male factor infertility. / Doug Sherring

Focus: CTV tragedy: Families still want 'justice'
Professor Maan Alkaisi, on behalf of the CTV Families Group, read a statement outside the High Court in Wellington ahead of a three-day judicial review hearing in regards to the design & construction of the CTV building. Video / Mark Mitchell

Should have kept them all? Auckland man's Pokémon cards worth thousands
Good return for the tangible assets has prompted many to wanna catch em all.

Focus: Hawaiian Airlines' women pilots
Interview with Captain Kendall (Kilki) Culler. She joined Hawaiian Airlines 34 years ago. Now, 10 per cent of the airlines' 800 pilots are women. / Brett Phibbs

Focus: One year since Sir Colin Meads' passing
Sir Colin Meads' daughter Shelley Mitchell talks about what it's been like since her father's passing last year.

Focus: One couple's struggle with infertility
Gaby Reid and her partner decided to start trying for a baby after they got married. So far, they've had no luck.

The 'awkward conversation': One couple's ongoing struggle to conceive
After being married a year, Gaby Reid says people started saying 'tick tock'.

Trapped by a broken disability hoist
Mother Donna Haurua and daughter Josie Haurua are frustrated that the disabled hoist they use is broken with no immediate fix in sight.