Whanananki School is a great school in the most magnificent setting unparalleled in the country, according to former student Winston Peters.
Maryanne Paul had been "blindspotted by the insidious evil of disseminating a poison into the lives of people".
Poacher Graham Colin Rangitaawa tried to argue it was his customary right to take toheroa without a permit.
A year after the All Blacks won the World Cup, Sir Graham Henry is deeply concerned.
Somebody torched a police car in Hamilton and another person uploaded a video of it on to YouTube.
The uploading of the video on the same night is also being investigated.
Meanwhile in the Ureweras, missing hunter Siow Hong Kuik, also known as Desmond, apparently may not realise he is lost. Douglas McGhie, however, did realise he was lost and snuggled up to his dogs to survive.
Avalanche City, OpShop, P Money and English rapper Example are set to play at the Waihi Beach Hotel over the holidays.
Tauranga police are seeking this man.
Five-months pregnant Jessica McMillan and her partner Matt Butler were watching a movie about 9.15pm when they heard an explosion outside. It is not a time for blame but a time for mourning, says the family of one of the dead.
A truck driver was found unconscious after he crashed through three properties in Havelock North.
Napier mum Marguerite Vujcich has won the South Island Bodyboarding Championships.
Over in Stratford, Collette saw a house that had a pile of firewood out getting wet, so she knocked on the door of the stranger and offered to help put it away.
A firebug may be on the loose in Wanganui.
The death of a 30-year-old woman at Castlecliff beach is not suspicious.
Greytown cops were surprised when a bloke in the receiving room chundered up $7000 worth of methamphetamine in a plastic bag.
Retired Masterton chemist Heaton Haglund has no recollection of writing a letter, joking that he must have been drunk or on medication.
In the worst earthquake-affected areas of Christchurch, residents have been linked to increased alcohol consumption and significantly higher levels of depression, acute stress and anxiety.
Meanwhile drunken late night revellers are continuing to test the patience of Christchurch police.
The signature of Sir Edmund Hillary has been rediscovered at Mid Canterbury's Double Hut.
The first time Billy will be legally able to drink alcohol is at a birthday party with Prince Charles.
Cyclist Hayden Roulston says Lance Armstrong was the best at everything, including doping.
While accounts manager at University of Otago, Graeme Jeffrey Pettitt, was always warning his team to look out for fraud.
Once upon a time all of Dunedin's vegetables were grown by Chinese market gardeners in Otago, but not anymore.
In Oamaru, luckily, the rural drink-drive team were right across the road when the Mini's engine ignited on the petrol-station forecourt.
The Taieri Gorge train will be bringing Dunedin residents and tourists to Oamaru on November 25 for a trial run.
Oamaru left such an impression on boy band Titanium that it features on one of their single covers.
Meanwhile some television owners on the West Coast are apparently stuck without TV after the digital switchover because they cannot afford the new equipment.
And the West Coast's new advertising slogan 'Just Add Water' is apparently not being widely applauded.
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- nzherald.co.nz
