'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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Great whites set up in Kaipara
Eleven great white sharks have been spotted at a single site in the Kaipara Harbour - the largest concentration of the species yet seen in the upper North Island.
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Lack of cicadas cause for concern?
Gardeners will be happy but most who enjoy the seasonal sounds of the cicada's courtship call will have noticed a definite absence of the unmistakable "song".
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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 month after reports he was being investigated…
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I'll discuss backlash with foreign press
Author says she'll discuss "inflammatory, vicious and patronising things that have been broadcast and published in NZ this week" in future interviews with foreign media…
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'Disgusting' comments hurled from party flat
Behaviour associated with an inner city Dunedin flat has upset a nearby business owner, who claims racial and sexual taunts…
Desperate renters queue for houses in Auckland
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.
Fire destroys Paraparaumu house
Vial of blood spilled on plane
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
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…
Innovative concept may give hope to Parkinson's sufferers
Breast cancer sufferer labelled a 'sick freak'
Thousands of social media users have shown their support for a breast cancer sufferer after a stranger told her she was a "sick freak".
Mon Dieu! France flops in cook-off
Frantic search after blast kills nurse, babies
Politics
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…
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.
Brownlee bats for renewed Hagley Oval
Amid a brace of political resignations, Gerry Brownlee took a cricket bat to a Cabinet colleague today - to celebrate new-look Hagley Oval.
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Summer cheer for kids battling IBD
Some much needed summer cheer has brightened the lives of 48 Kiwi kids battling Inflammatory 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…
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Cheryl Strayed: Walk from the wild side
Frances Morton talks to the woman whose heroic tale of beating life's problems took her from wilderness to red carpet.
Salem - tune in for the TV fantasy
Just as you were about to give up on witches, in come some scheming, dark, violent types to restore their good name, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.
Movie review: The Crucible
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Travel
Rotorua: A chance to spin your wheels
Donna McIntyre and family visit New Zealand's number one off-road cycling destination.
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Shandelle Battersby checks into a remote Central Otago lodge that's worth the journey.
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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
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Sport
Live updates: Auckland Nines
Herald league reporters David Skipwith and Michael Burgess will be providing live updates from the Auckland Nines at Eden…
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League: Warriors prepared to chase Foran hard
Manly and Kiwis five-eighth Kieran Foran admits the prospect of joining the Warriors would be a big call but the club remain determined to move heaven and earth to sign…
