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NZ dollar holds on to recent gains

Sharemarket posts modest gain

More Kiwis heading to Oz

Child found alone in Hamilton street

Bamiyan will be ready for 2014 handover - McCully

Murray McCully says Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, where NZ troops have been since 2003, will be ready to stand on its own before Hamid Karzai's 2014 deadline.

<i>John Armstrong:</i> Better to bury failure than risk defeat

Better an utter, total if humiliating backdown than a messy compromise that keeps the mining issue alive into election year.

Scheme nets one rich investor

A scheme aimed at attracting wealthy migrants to invest in businesses and create jobs in NZ has resulted in just one approval.

Lost appeal sees knife killers named

Rotorua school closed after arson

Heart complaint behind fatal air crash

Zespri challenge not a 'waste' - lawyer

New funding programmes for Creative NZ

Poker hopefuls head south

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

Flatmate dispute sparks armed standoff

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

Principal 'gutted' by boys' theft spree

The principal of an elite Australian Catholic college has suspended a group of boys allegedly involved in a $6000 theft spree in Queenstown.

NZ's most common family? Couples without children

Couples without children are expected to overtake two-parent families as the most common household formation by next year, according to Statistics NZ.