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Fletcher Building in red, posts $190m loss

Fletcher's June 30, 2018 full-year result is out

Slime fight: 12yo Aucklander takes on global TV giant

A Kiwi girl is taking on Nickelodeon over the use of the word slime.

Focus: Slime Princess' trademark dispute with Nickelodeon

Kartharina Weishede aka Slime Princess is having a trademark dispute with Nickelodeon over the use of 'slime.' / Michael Craig

Focus: Operation Burnham - Inquiry into controversial SAS raid outlined in Hit and Run begins

The extraordinary and historic nature of the inquiry into a controversial NZSAS raid was laid bare amidst concerns over the release of classified and secret information.

Focus: Grey Power speaks out about issues facing older people with defective homes

Resident Bill Rayner talks about the elderly falling victim to leaky, defective appartments. Video / NZ Herald

Soper: Pay freeze an easy move for Jacinda Ardern to sound altruistic

COMMENT: Self-appointed paymaster Jacinda Ardern rendered Remuneration Authority impotent.

Focus: The elderly speak out against bus service changes

The elderly speak out against the loss of a bus service to Green Lane Medical Clinic.

Rosemarie North: Lombok needs help with earthquake recovery

COMMENT: People of Lombok need help to recover from the earthquake.

Focus: College occupied in land dispute

A protest group have occupied the site of the recently closed Hato Petera College in Northcote.

Focus: 40,000 tonnes of Auckland's plastic waste about to be transformed

A Kiwi company will begin turning tens of thousands of tonnes of Auckland's plastic waste into concrete as soon as next year.

Focus: Introduce capital gains tax, TWG suggest

Introduce capital gains tax, says Sir Michael Cullen's tax working group.

Focus: GDP up by 1pc, dollar rises on result

Good news for the Government, GDP up by 1pc, dollar rises on result.

40,000 tonnes of Auckland's plastic waste about to be transformed

South Auckland-based company Enviroplaz says global interest in Plazrok is also booming.

Focus: Life sentence for murder days after hospital release

Mental health patient Gabriel Yad-Elohim sentenced to life imprisonment for brutal murder.

Focus: Communities flee eruption at Guatemala's Volcano of Fire

About 4000 residents fled Guatemala's Volcano of Fire Monday as red-hot rock and ash spewed into the sky and cascaded down the slopes toward an area devastated by a deadly eruption earlier this year.

Focus: Conifer Grove homes damaged by nearby roadworks

Conifer Grove residents talk about the nearby roadworks causing inconvenience and damage to their homes.