Racial taunts upset local
Behaviour associated with an inner city Dunedin flat has upset a nearby business owner, who claims racial and sexual taunts have been hurled at her from drunken revellers…
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Live updates: Auckland Nines
Herald league reporters David Skipwith and Michael Burgess will be providing live updates from the Auckland Nines at Eden Park
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Career hopes after vid goes viral
The man whose piano-playing prowess became an internet sensation is a holidaying English sparkie who can't read music.
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Man caught in boat inferno
A man suffered serious burns to most of his body after the boat he was in burst into flames while he was trying to fill the tank with petrol.
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'I fear he will come back'
The family of a Dunedin woman who had her head split open with an axe fears her attacker will finish what he started.
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Fatality in Stratford, arrest made
A homicide inquiry has been launched after a woman was found dead at a home in Taranaki last night.
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Norman proud of Greens' market share
Russel Norman brought economic orthodoxy to the Green Party and he drew on it yesterday when he talking about the effort he had put into advancing the party in the nine…
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Glenn's trust move will end stoush
Owen Glenn's move to gift his half-share of the Warriors to a charitable trust will end one of his legal disputes with Eric Watson but leave the main battle between…
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Swney's $3m ticket to the high life
Tax cheat Alex Swney arranged for the council-funded Heart of the City to pay him nearly $300k annually - despite his role as CEO of the business lobby group being only…
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Inquiry into council part in $1b centre
Auditor-General Lyn Provost has begun an inquiry into Auckland Council's involvement in a new town centre at Westgate, which is costing ratepayers about $200m.
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Low fares to help fill seats
Air fares as low as $1,365 return to Europe are on sale as airlines try to top up planes for the coming year.
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Desperate renters queue for houses
Auckland's booming property market is running out of student accommodation. At one inner-city property this week, up to 150 desperate renters queued up at an open home…
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National
Te Puna pedestrian fatality: Man named
The man who died when he stepped in to the path of a truck on State Highway 2 at Te Puna yesterday has been named.
Witness sought following Te Puna road death
Fire destroys Paraparaumu house
A house fire has destroyed a property in Wellington over night.
Vial of blood spilled on plane
Mum and baby's deaths 'preventable'
Business
Oil slips below US$44 briefly
Oil prices closed higher after a volatile session that saw the New York price drop below US$44 a barrel for the first time…
Second day of falls for NZ shares
New Zealand shares fell for a second day as the kiwi dollar's slide to a four-year low sapped overseas investor appetite for high-yielding stocks.
Share dip 'iPhone 6 effect'
Orion Health has blamed disappointing third quarter revenue, which sent the software developer's shares tumbling to a record low, on its own version of the "iPhone 6…
Brian Gaynor: Potential problems in NZX's high level of foreign investment
Goldman Sachs' latest NZX Ownership Survey shows overseas interest in the NZ sharemarket has remained static over the past 12 months.
World
Conductor drops dead in front of audience
An Israeli conductor collapsed and died in the middle of a performance as horrified audience members looked on.
Israel says Hezbollah to pay 'full price' over missile attack
DNA clues could predict when people will die
Chemical changes in DNA can help us understand people's "biological age" - a measure of how old their body is that seems to be able to predict when people are going…
Breast cancer sufferer labelled a 'sick freak'
Mon Dieu! France flops in cook-off
Politics
Key pressed over handling of Sabin affair
The PM is facing increasing questions about his handling of the Mike Sabin affair after the Northland MP's resignation a…
Child poverty - a lesson for Key's team
In the flush of election victory, John Key said something about tackling child poverty in this term. He was looking for fresh ideas from ministers in the new year.
John Armstrong: Bill's Big Experiment sounds fine in theory
What if the Govt toiled night and day for years to create a market for the right to house the poor and downtrodden, only for no-one to bother to turn up when it finally…
Editorial: Greens must do more than hint at centre
Dr Norman will leave the leadership with his party in no worse position than he found it.
Life & Style
Review: Chinoiserie, Mt Albert
Colourful, cheap and cheerful, chinoiserie ticks the boxes.
Review: Ponsonby Road Bistro, Ponsonby
Passion takes the lead for older women
Midlife crisis? What crisis? Suzanne McFadden meets three women in their 40s reinventing their lives.
Fashion: Haute tech
The science of why we lie
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Camp Purple: Living with Crohn's and Colitis
New Zealand has the world's highest incidence rate of IBD with an estimated 20,000 people living with the disease. This…
Summer cheer for children battling bowel disease
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Fire destroys Wellington house
A house fire has destroyed a property in Wellington over night. Fire central communications shift manager Murray Dunbar said fire services were called to the blaze…
Ryan Gosling confuses NZ and Australia
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Arts: A voyage around my father
Known for his political activism and satirical comedy, you wouldn't normally associate Mark Thomas with a rarefied art form…
Star ill but still super show
David Oyelowo - The man who would be King
Michele Manelis talks with the star of Selma about the civil rights struggle in the US and racism today.
Cheryl Strayed: Walk from the wild side
Salem - tune in for the TV fantasy
Travel
Rotorua: A chance to spin your wheels
Donna McIntyre and family visit New Zealand's number one off-road cycling destination.
Crankworx registration set to open
Room check: Kinloch Lodge, Glenorchy
Shandelle Battersby checks into a remote Central Otago lodge that's worth the journey.
Learning to dive
Kia ora: Waihi
Opinion
Mike Dillon: Watershed moment at Karaka
Loosely speaking Karaka's horse sales complex is about selling dreams. The dream is about to change slightly.
Racing: Kiwi top guns take on Aussie pacer
Editorial: Let Catton live down ill-considered words
The lesson to be drawn from the controversial remarks of Eleanor Catton is perhaps that those who do their thinking on paper have more to lose when they open their mouth…
Leave out seasoning and noodles are fine
Why straight girls kiss girls
Sport
Cricket: Black Caps to bowl
Brendon McCullum has returned to the New Zealand side and he has won the toss and they will bowl first against Pakistan…
Cricket: Auckland hopes it's odds-on for Ford Trophy
Nines: Fans flock to Eden Park
The annual NRL Nines have kicked off at Eden Park, with a star-studded lineup of rugby league's finest set to entertain up to 90,000 fans for the next two days. The…
