Flight 370: 'A new phase'
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has entered a 'new phase' after confirmation somebody deliberately diverted the plane and shut down contact with the ground…
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Brown: 'We're not just racking up debt'
Auckland Council debt, which was $4 billion three years ago, has now reached $6.5b, but the Mayor says there is a good balance between the super city's debts and assets…
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Auckland mayor 'toast' if credit rating falls
Auckland Council faces 'tough choices' - Brown
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Storm heads to South Island
The remnants of tropical cyclone Lusi are expected to pass over Wellington and the top of the South Island tonight, bringing wind gusts of up to 130km/h.
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Bitten 9 times at daycare
The distraught parents of an infant who needed hospital treatment after being repeatedly bitten by a 2-year-old boy at a preschool.
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Missing flight: Family hang on to hopes
The family of Kiwi Paul Weeks are hanging on to slim hopes he could still be alive after it was revealed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 flew for more than seven hours…
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Unwary residents caught in trap
It's a sunny weekday morning and the lounge of Maygrove Village in Orewa is sparsely populated.
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Cold-case killer convicted with NZ help
A New Zealand forensic scientist helped provide the crucial breakthrough in a horrific Australian murder cold case.
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Ukraine to use 'all necessary measures'
Russian forces backed by helicopter gunships and armored vehicles took control of a village near the border with Crimea.
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Pt Chevalier Block buzz builds
The upmarket Auckland suburb of Pt Chevalier will be home to the next series of The Block NZ.
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Odd Future frontman arrested
Rapper Tyler, The Creator, was arrested for allegedly inciting a riot during a show at the South By Southwest music festival.
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Cyclone Lusi hits NZ
Video: Aucklanders enjoy Cyclone Lusi
Former Cyclone Lusi proved to be more of a wind bag than a raging beast - to the delight of beach-bound thrillseekers. Some Aucklanders took to the beach yesterday as…
Photos: Cyclone Lusi - your pics
NZ Herald readers send in their best pics of the weather currently soaking New Zealand.
Opinion
Schools do their best
Everyone agrees: We need to talk about how we fund our schools. Ranking schools in 10 decile bands according to the relative deprivation of their neighbourhoods is a…
28CommentsFirst take: Costly ref decision hurts Blues
Refereeing injustice in South Africa. That theme incrusted New Zealand rugby visits for decades and the Blues will talk about an episode today which will sit alongside…
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National
Man with BB gun sparks armed police callout
A man allegedly brandishing a BB gun in Porirua this afternoon sparked an armed police callout in two separate Titahi Bay…
Intellectually disabled man missing
An intellectually disabled man who requires medication has been missing for two days after he failed to arrive at Auckland from Hamilton.
NZ dismisses Crimea referendum
Marine life better protected
Business
The power is in your hands
Most households could easily cut their power bills by 10 per cent by making small adjustments, energy conservation experts…
Vine with potential for growth
A Taupo restaurant and bar, owned and run by some of the town's hospitality stalwarts, is being sold as a going concern operating from leased premises in the centre…
Pink pushes up prices
Is it worth paying more for a razor just because it's pink?
Diana Clement: Like it before it's popular
A chance meeting with a Filipino woman buying a $6 pig's head at the Mad Butcher got me thinking about less-than-popular cuts such as pork belly.
World
Rallies to save the lion
Wildlife campaigners joined rallies around South Africa in an international push to protect the lion.
Rich-lister's shocking animal slaughter
Stalemate over Crimea
The United States and Russia have failed to resolve a Cold-War-style stand-off sparked by Moscow's military intervention in Crimea, as the clock ticks down to the region's…
Chicago River dyed green for St Patrick's Day
Jack Tame: Clever we may be, but how do we lose a whole plane?
10CommentsTechnology
Planet X's existence debunked
It was an elusive planet that for 200 years appeared to explain Uranus's wobbly orbit. And there was the sister sun theorised…
Curve will catch plenty of TV fans
It has been hyped for the past year and now the latest television technology - set to turn any suburban living room into a mini Imax theatre - is available in New Zealand…
All eyes on first China domestic bond default
China is about to face its own Bear Stearns moment, when the market started to seriously reassess subprime debt risk after the US lender was bailed out in 2008.
The web we want
Labour leader David Cunliffe failed to get any traction in local media this week with his promise of a digital bill of rights it's hard to compete with looming bad weather…
Politics
Peters: Limit foreign ownership of property
New Zealand First wants to limit foreign ownership of residential property, and ban foreign boats and crews from fishing…
Rodney Hide: Bold No3 grabs the spotlight
The news this week is that the Greens have an MP named Gareth Hughes. And that Labour's Shane Jones has been calling him names. And that Hughes has complained. Say…
31CommentsDeborah Mahuta-Coyle: Voters demand only honesty
When I was 8, I went to my friend Emma's birthday party. I was seated opposite her prim and proper grandmother, who leaned forward and asked me what I wanted to be when…
16CommentsSchool funding shakeup looms
The Government is looking to fund schools according to the progress their pupils make, the Education Minister has revealed.
Sport
Peters 'blown away' after winning silver
Corey Peters was ''pretty blown away" after winning a Paralympic silver medal in Sochi, Russia yesterday.
Rugby: Blues leave it too late again
An incredible comeback from the Blues against the Lions in Johannesburg fell just short this morning, John Kirwan's men again leaving themselves too much to do after…
Rugby: Ireland win Six Nations in thriller
Ireland held on grimly in a nail-biting finish to beat France 22-20 and win its first Six Nations since 2009, giving centre Brian O'Driscoll the perfect send off in…
NRL: Not enough intensity in Warriors pack
There have been many things said about the Warriors throughout history, some of them true and others less so.
Rugby
Rugby: Repeated lapses cost Highlanders victory
There's an old rugby saying: "Players win matches; teams win championships". No one is suggesting either of these two will…
Small Business
'Nice person' awarded $36K over sacking
A company which sacked its general manager because he did not fit in with the company, even though he was a "nice person"…
