Daycare harm report 'alarmist'
Daycare harm report 'alarmist'

Updated A controversial report branding daycare harmful to children is alarmist, misleading and irresponsible, New Zealand early childhood teachers say. The 30-page report Who Cares? Mothers, Daycare and Child Wellbeing in New…

Wife killer freed after 20 years

Updated Convicted murder James Herbert Dahlberg has been released from prison, 20 years after he was jailed…

Shoplifting teacher gets name suppression

A Hawke's Bay early childhood teacher has won her bid for name suppression after admitting two counts…

Witnesses stunned at mass road rage incident

Police are searching for the occupants of several cars involved in a road rage incident that left a…

$1-a-litre deal's 'amazing' response
$1-a-litre deal's 'amazing' response

The boutique grocery store that dropped the price of its milk to make a point has sold thousands of bottles at $1 a litre…

Pike River Inquiry: What caused deadly blast?
Pike River Inquiry: What caused deadly blast?

The Pike River Mine explosion was probably caused by a rockfall that sent explosive gases...

Unearthed Napier bones about 200 years old
Unearthed Napier bones about 200 years old

Updated Bones unearthed at a Napier property last week by builders preparing foundations for a fence have been identified as those…

'The timing was wrong': Exponents axe 28 tour dates over poor sales
'The timing was wrong': Exponents axe 28 tour dates over poor sales

Drunkenly singing along to Why Does Love Do This To Me is apparently no longer the live drawcard it once was.

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Daycare harm report 'alarmist'
Daycare harm report 'alarmist'

Updated A controversial report branding daycare harmful to children is alarmist, misleading and irresponsible, New Zealand early… More

Wife killer freed after 20 years
Witnesses stunned at mass road rage incident
Shoplifting teacher gets name suppression
Unearthed Napier bones about 200 years old
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Hallenstein earnings up 25pc, targets digital stores
Hallenstein earnings up 25pc, targets digital stores

Hallenstein Glasson said first-half earnings were about a quarter higher than last year and the clothing chain plans to… More

Fran O'Sullivan: Fonterra must be a champion in China
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Avocado industry sets export sights on Europe and beyond
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Basketball: Breakers return to the road
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The Breakers will have to do something they haven't done for some time this week - pack their bags. The North Shore-based… More

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Quake repairs to lift building sector report
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Earthquake repair work and Auckland house building could boost New Zealand's $8.9 billion building sector and turn the downturn… More

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Inside Money: May you live in less interesting times

If the long-term cost of money is close to zero, what's the point in being a bond manager dealing in US government securities?… More

If a money offer is too good to be true...

When Rotorua's Rongo Tahata was told he was entitled to an inheritance worth millions of dollars he knew it was too good… More

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Divided Auckland: More become tenants in own city
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The growing gap between rich and poor has made an extra one-sixth of Aucklanders truly "tenants in their own country". Aucklanders… More

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Employment

Wage inflation speeds up in private sector, slows for public

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Steven Joyce: Each time we say 'you can't' it carries a cost

NZ has to make the best of all its natural advantages, writes Steven Joyce, Minister for Economic Development, Science and… More

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