Portuguese seaman Rui Alberto da Silva Faria was having drinks on the stern of the boat while docked in Whangarei with the boat's cook, Joao Manuel Almeida Escobar, who suddenly became concerned he had lost his iPhone.
A former radio DJ and Radio Avon boss has been sentenced to seven months' home detention for molesting a teenage boy from 1970 to 1982.
The latest acquisition for engineer-inventor Paddy Monro is his YikeBike.
In the past couple of weeks Jordi Webber has gone from an acting student to a recording artist.
A 15-year-old who held up a service station with a BB gun is being sent to a military boot camp.
A Whakatane man who pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated careless driving causing death thinks he fell asleep at the wheel.
Gisborne advocates for women who live with violence feel left out of a government commitment to support victims of domestic abuse.
Bruce Springsteen? Fleetwood Mac? Paul Simon? Who will headline Hawke's Bay's big concert next year?
Two young Napier men with combined criminal histories stretching seven pages were jailed for a burglary into which they lured another teenager who had never previously been in trouble with the police.
Keith and Val Gabrielle say a decision to allow a new factory next to their home in Hastings is "gut wrenching".
An angry Wanganui mother hit a woman with a coffee cup because she believed the woman had introduced her daughter to intravenous drugs.
A cherished statue of Jesus has been found in an unoccupied property in rural Taranaki.
Have you seen this red Honda CRF450X dirt bike?
Galeforce winds are expected in Wairarapa throughout the week.
Jealous rage may be behind two Molotov cocktails being thrown into a Christchurch bedroom after midnight, with an accelerant apparently poured on the window sills and parts of the house, and an attempt made to burn a car outside the house.
The iconic Canterbury Brewery is being demolished. And demolition of Christchurch's QEII Park Recreation and Sport complex is in full swing.
Rugby league referees say violent spectator behaviour fuelled by alcohol has been escalating alarmingly with four security guards not enough to stop the latest drunken brawl.
Burwood Pegasus Community Board has refused funding for a charity that provides breakfasts for needy school kids.
Not enough notice is apparently being taken of the potential threat of rising sea level in the rebuild of Christchurch.
Whitebait was measured by individual fish caught, not by the pounds, at the mouth of the Ashburton River yesterday.
It appears we'll never know which takeaway food bar in Ashburton had a rodent infestation, which was discovered after a member of the public saw a mouse and told the owner who gave a 'less than favourable' response.'
Meanwhile a colony of wild cats at Frasers Gully aren't remotely scared of people and spit and hiss at the locals.
Hayden Cairns took over $12,000 from his foster parents, who had cared for him since he was a baby, to feed his addiction to the synthetic cannabis Kronic.
There's been some "idiotic vandalism" on the Queenstown trail.
The fourth annual steampunk exhibition has a new venue this year.
Upper Buller Gorge resident Stephen McGrath wants the hunting community to expose the "complete and utter morons" who shot dead his daughter's pet horse Dolly and its foal Rice. The foal suffered a horrible death.
Meanwhile the last remaining butchery in Hokitika has closed down.
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-Herald Online
