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Heavy snow has already fallen in parts of the South Island - but the polar blast is just getting started, MetService meteorologist Daniel Corbett said.
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Heavy snow has already fallen in parts of the South Island - but the polar blast is just getting started, MetService meteorologist Daniel Corbett said.
A Rotorua man who kidnapped his girlfriend then dragged her behind a car for almost 2km told police he put her in the car boot "to show her that he loved her".
Police have carried out a blitz on truancy in Whangarei, where nearly a third of students at some schools are absent at any given time.
The group responsible for phasing out battery chicken cages within a decade has bowed to industry pressure and proposed extending the timetable.
A man who robbed Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles just hours before he was brutally murdered and dismembered has escaped jail today.
The Mana Party wants to build 10,000 state houses a year. Mana's Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate Te Hamua Nikora announced the party's housing policy today in Pomare, in the…
The disappearance of a Rawene woman after she left a marae with her partner is a mystery to police, but foul play has not been ruled out.
Sopranos star James Gandolfini has died suddenly in Italy of a suspected heart attack.
New Zealand Post says it will axe 80 to 100 corporate roles at the state-owned company's Wellington and Auckland offices by July.
An engineer who assessed the Ohope landslide that killed a 17-year-old has re-iterated calls for the local council to adopt evacuation procedures.
A company's decision to delete millions of Megaupload files has been described as the 'largest data massacre in the history of the internet".
A burglar who discovered a dead body hanging in a Hamilton house is unlikely to face charges for the break-in.
Offers of help have been flooding in for the Foster family who had all their firewood stolen while spending what is likely to be their last holiday together.
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Rotorua district councillor Maureen Waaka is recovering in Auckland City Hospital after suffering a stroke.
Stories from the regions: How good Samaritans came to the aid of a cancer sufferer whose firewood was pinched, and a first-hand account of cannabis 'evils'.
Weatherwatch head analyst Philip Duncan joined us for a live chat on the winter storm sweeping New Zealand.The storm is expected to bring heavy snow to Marlborough…
Melburnians woke today to the city's coldest June morning in more than a decade.
Bus fares have been lowered in Brazil's two biggest cities, but protesters say the issue has widened to cover other inadequate public services.
The dollar has dropped on news the economy limped along in the first three months of the year, thanks largely to the North…
New Zealand cannot afford to become a weak link in the chain of global efforts to crack down on money laundering and terrorism financing, says the Reserve Bank. The…
The New Zealand dollar traded sharply lower today, firstly in response to an upsurge in the US dollar and then to data showing growth was surprisingly weak over the…
If the market distortion is going to persist then those with the means should be buying multiple houses, they can't do anything but go up in value, writes Gareth Morgan…
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WATCH THE BLOOD PRESSURE: What say you need to constantly monitor someone's blood pressure? Perhaps a catheter is inserted…
Every cloud has a silver lining, so the cliche goes, and for Enis Bacova it was a road accident, which nearly killed him, that led to the establishment of an internet…
New Zealand clean-tech firm LanzaTech and Virgin Atlantic have received an award for their partnership commercialising low-carbon aviation biofuels.The two firms took…
Scientists in Australia are using 3D printing to create monstrous bugs up to 50 times their original size. But doesn't Australia have enough creepy crawlies already?
It's become almost as tiresome as the acts themselves.A footy star winds up in trouble with the law and we're immediately…
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New Zealand No 1 Marina Erakovic and Zimbabwe's Cara Black will be seeded 11th in the doubles at Wimbledon, beginning in London next week.Erakovic and Black, the former…
The results of crunch talks over who pays for what in Christchurch city centre's post-earthquake blueprint projects will…
Peter Dunne has hit out at the Electoral Commission after it refused to budge on its requirements for his party's reregistration.
Well-connected lobbyists Saunders Unsworth worked with Solid Energy, Treasury and Cabinet Ministers to thwart questions about the company's problems.
The Greens back down on their print money policy is good - but co-leader Russel Norman shouldn't expect to be finance minister in a Labour-led government.