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Shane Jones enticing mining businesses back to New Zealand
Ngarara Exploration wants a prospecting permit for vanadium
'I have a lot of hate towards them': A widow's life after murder
Jacob Ramsay was beaten, chained to a car and dragged to his death.
School lockdown after bat flaunted in altercation
"The school was just put into lockdown as a precaution ..."
Police seek man in relation to a number of thefts
Police are seeking to locate 20-year-old Taiko Cribb, from Stratford.
School shut half its students out of NCEA
Withdraw of some students from NCEA put James Cook High School under statutory management.
Man charged with murder of missing man
A man has been charged with the murder of missing Opunake man Aaron Roigard.
Hostage siege shooting 'justified'
The fatal police shooting of a man who barricaded himself into a Taranaki hotel during a 13-hour hostage siege was justified, the police watchdog says.
Four of the best... winter surf spots
Don't let the cold weather keep you from the royal waves.
Hostage taker killed by shot in head
A man who was fatally shot after holding his ex-girlfriend hostage died from...
Boy badly burned after explosion
A 12-year-old boy suffered serious burns when a petrol container he was carrying burst into flames and then exploded. He's been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital where his condition is described as...
Locals baffled by woman's bond with hostage-taker
People in the quiet seaside town of Opunake always wondered how a "lovely, kind and beautiful...
Siege gunman a repeat offender
The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.
Hostage drama gunman shot dead
A man police shot dead after he took a woman hostage at gunpoint at a Taranaki Hotel overnight was released from jail last week. Police this afternoon named him as Anthony Ratahi, 46, from Stratford.