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Police prepare to deal with New Year's Eve hot spots
Liquor bans are in place and police numbers are being boosted in many of the traditional New Year's Eve hot spots.

Police warn over underage sex, drug use
Police have told parents to keep track of their children after finding a girl, 14, having allegedly drug-fuelled sex near a beach overnight.

Large slip blocks SH25 near Whangamata
A large slip overnight has blocked State Highway 25, just south of Whangamata, on the Coromandel Peninsula.

Coromandel has thrifty options for rugby fans
The Coromandel is promising cheap RWC accommodation rates that will undercut Auckland packages reaching into the thousands.

Quiet night for New Year celebrations
Revellers celebrating New Year and the start of a new decade in New Zealand behaved themselves last night.

Liquor policing too harsh - holidaymakers
The policing of a liquor ban in Whangamata has come under fire from holidaymakers who say the zero-tolerance approach is too heavy-handed and lacks common sense.