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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Vehicle crashes into Central Otago lake
A car went into a Central Otago lake this evening and sank, police say. Inspector Peter Hegarty, of the police southern…
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
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
Mon Dieu! France flops in cook-off
It is considered to have one of the world's finest cuisines. But France faced gastronomic humiliation after it failed to make the podium on home soil in a global cooking…
Frantic search after blast kills nurse, babies
Yes, it's hot in the city and getting hotter
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
Books: Love and how to forgive
What is normal? And what if you don't fit in with society's idea of it? Those are the issues raised by US author Amy Hatvany's…
Books: Novel a winning debut
Wine: Instant head-turners
Wines available from heraldwines.co.nz for a limited time. 2014 Matawhero Gisborne Gewurztraminer For unfathomable reasons gewurtztraminer remains unloved and something…
Gardening: Family garden of Eden
Review: Chinoiserie, Mt Albert
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NRL Nines: Raiders spoil Warriors' party
The Warriors looked to have found their rhythm in the second-half, Tui Lolohea grubbered and then scorched through to ground…
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NRL Nines : Warriors grab opening win
It's one from one for the home side, with the Warriors defeating the Gold Coast Titans 17-10. The Warriors led 13-6 at the break but were given a scare early in the…
Camp Purple: Living with Crohn's and Colitis
VideoFire destroys Wellington house
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Energetic observer nears end of house project
Art causes lurching emotions. "From hateful boredom to supreme enlightenment," as John Radford puts it, raving about regular…
Charlie Sheen portrait 'captures essence of addiction'
Going for baroque
A March concert by Tafelmusik, a Canadian baroque orchestra, promises to be a highlight of this year's Auckland Arts Festival.
Galleries: The true suffering of war
A voyage around my father
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
The secret diary of ... Catton
Monday Interesting questions of gender and identity are raised at the Jaipur literary festival in India when I'm judged to have lost the egg and spoon race. I don't…
Editorial: Let Catton live down ill-considered words
Leave out seasoning and noodles are fine
Sport
Cricket: Black Caps cruising to target
Pakistan were dismissed for 210 in their opening one-day international against New Zealand at Westpac Stadium in Wellington…
Cricket: Auckland hopes it's odds-on for Ford Trophy
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…
