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Mosque car bomb threats: Accused loses name suppression bid

Chilling threats made just before second anniversary of March 15, 2019 terror attack.

US billionaire Peter Thiel's Queenstown house going for a steal

Thiel's company, Second Star Ltd, paid a head-turning $4.8m for the five-bedroom home.

Cot death: No blame on 'traumatised' parents but Coroner pleas for safer sleeping

Chch baby death spurs Coroner to remind Kiwi parents about safe sleeping advice.

Dirty laundry: Sending patients' heavily-soiled clothes home with family 'not acceptable'

Aged care advocates say hospitals can do better around laundry services for sick patients

Accountant denies murdering ex-wife's partner

Victim's father passed away just weeks before killing.

Wheels on wheels: Queenstown's main street becomes wheelchair race track

"Queenstown never ceases to amaze me."

School bus driver charged with assault of child

It is alleged the man grabbed a primary school-aged child around the neck

Chances of snowfall in south and north looking 'pretty good' - Metservice

'There's quite a cold air mass in circulation,' Metservice says.

Christchurch stadium row shock: Decision to slash capacity to be revisited

The council decision to reduce the stadium's capacity has divided the city.

Tricky moove: Cow craned to safety after bizarre farm accident

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a cow on the mooove.

'Grotesque' child sex abuse cache: Worst judge has ever experienced

Thousands of 'repellent and grotesque' images results in jail term.

'No evidence' rest home staff, care contributed to 'sad' death of elderly Timaru man

Coroner says no evidence rest home staff, care contributed to 'sad' death of Timaru man.

'100% New Zealand'? Kiwi supplements company fined $377,000 over 'misleading' labels

Labels found to suggest products came from NZ - but main ingredient sourced in China.

'I tried until the last minute': Rural town's only early learning centre closes

It follows a long-standing struggle to draw qualified early childhood teachers to Lumsden.

Amazing disgrace: Teacher, pastor, bagpiper and sex offender

John Nicholl invited victims to tuck in his shirt, by pulling it down from under his kilt.

Second movie dramatising Chch mosque shootings on hold

Egyptian director decided just nine days after 51 murdered that he would make a film.

'We will get them': Police vehicle rammed by car

Cornered in a dead end, the vehicle rammed into the police car rendering it immobile.

$5.3 million Lotto winner was watching Sevens final while checking ticket

Winners' children and their children will benefit from big win.