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Treated sewage could cover city land
Treated sewage could cover city land

Treated sewage waste could be dumped on land 20m from property boundaries under the draft Auckland Council Unitary Plan.

  1. Smelly spillages a mystery in Dargaville
Border patrol's high green fence
Border patrol's high green fence (16 comments)
  1. Sam Judd: Budget belittles environment (62 comments)
Jim Salinger: Climate hurtling towards a hothouse Earth
Jim Salinger: Climate hurtling towards a hothouse Earth
  1. Lid lowered on global warming rate
Denniston Plateau coal mining approved
Denniston Plateau coal mining approved
  1. Eco groups slam policy on drilling
Denniston Plateau mine a step closer
Denniston Plateau mine a step closer
  1. video John Key - Denniston Mine (4:35)
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Health

Rocky Horror star has stroke
Rocky Horror star has stroke

Rocky Horror Picture Show star Tim Curry is reportedly recovering "in great humour" after suffering a stroke.

  1. Dominic Corry: Musicals for people who don't like musicals (10 comments)
Feast and famine
Ban brought forward
Sister dies on hearing of judge's death
Porn making youth permissive: study
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Changespotting

Sex-for-hire robots
Sex-for-hire robots

Can you imagine a future with sex-for-hire robots? Michelle Mars and Ian Yeoman of Victoria University have tried to determine…

  1. Transvestite group upsets Papatoetoe community
Biometric ATM machines
Biometric ATM machines
Flowering high-heels
Flowering high-heels
Liquid body armour
Liquid body armour
  1. Vege powered vehicles
Wine to water
Wine to water
  1. Another chance at sight
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Technology

Police create and fire 3D-printed guns
Police create and fire 3D-printed guns

New South Wales police have created and fired two 3D-printed firearms, the state police commissioner Andrew Scipione revealed…

  1. Tech Universe: Monday 13 May
Software firm latest to signal NZX float
Vodafone shows off next-gen mobile broadband
Snakk Media raises $6.5m in new funds
Punakaiki Fund mulls $50m IPO
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Science

Asteroid set to sail close by
Asteroid set to sail close by

Another giant space rock is set to sail by the Earth just a few months after our last close encounter - but an expert says…

  1. NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
Scientist: Challenges will help NZ
Scientist: Challenges will help NZ
  1. Science experiments leaves expert cold
Anthony Scott: Science funding can help us reach for the stars
Anthony Scott: Science funding can help us reach for the stars (8 comments)
  1. video Raw: First solar X-flare of 2013 (2:06)
Human parasites go under microscope
Human parasites go under microscope
Tornado: Science behind the destruction
Tornado: Science behind the destruction
  1. video Crews race to find survivors of Tornado (2:25)
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Space

NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission
NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

The head of NASA is visiting the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where engineers are working on a proposed mission to lasso a…

  1. Sun interrupts Mars missions
Space flights 'an absolute bargain'
Wheels fall off planet hunting mission
video Time-lapse of Southern skies (0:52)
Space tweeter returns to Earth
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