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Top Stories |
| | 'Pack' girls in school bullying
By ALEX VAN WEL
Violent assaults among secondary school students appear to be increasing, and girls are adopting a similar "pack mentality" to boy bullies, says the Children's Commissioner.
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 | Ghost town in the heart of Wellington
By DAVE BURGESS
A $3 million upgrade of the Tonks heritage area in central Wellington has turned it into a wasteland for boozers, drug addicts and prostitutes.
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| | Doubts cast on doctor exodus
By NIKKI MACDONALD
Three out of four junior doctors are still working in New Zealand five years after graduating, a Dominion Post investigation has found.
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Technology |
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| | Telecom's broadband rivals 'fired up'
By JON HOYLE
The Government's broadband regulations have fired up competition, Telecommunications Commissioner Ross Patterson says, following Vodafone's announcement yesterday that it has moved its broadband equipment into 19 Telecom exchanges.
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 | Stuff's guide to internet scams
By REUBEN SCHWARZ
The internet can be a scary place if you're not careful. We spend so much time protecting ourselves against hackers and viruses, sometimes we let our guard down when we're dealing with real people.
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National News |
| | Builders cut profit margins
By MIKE HOULAHAN
Builders are cutting their profit margins on new dwellings in a bid to spark some activity in a moribund housing market.
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| | Controversy grows over PI underclass report
ANNA CHALMERS and JENNY LING
Massey University has been accused of supporting substandard research as controversy grows over a report claiming Pacific Islanders are becoming an underclass.
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Sport |
 | Anderson destroys Black Caps
A devastating spell by England's James Anderson reduced New Zealand's batting line-up to rubble as hopes of a cricket series-squaring win were effectively snuffed out overnight.
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 | Cullen wary of Irish ambush
By TOBY ROBSON
Christian Cullen believes the Irish have their best chance of toppling the All Blacks at Westpac Stadium tonight. But the former All Blacks fullback wonders if his former Munster teammates can carry their club form to the international stage.
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| | Carter relishes return to test stage
You could excuse All Blacks first five-eighth Daniel Carter if his head is spinning when he plays Ireland for the first time in his rugby career today.
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World News |
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| | Aussie cop accessed child porn for 'challenge'
A former federal police officer arrested in Australia's largest crackdown on child pornography says he accessed illegal images because it was "a challenge", and not because of a sexual interest in young girls.
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| | China's students study on, despite quake
Their books are buried under rubble, but thousands of students in quake-hit areas are as committed as ever to preparing for China's make-or-break college entrance exams as they study in tents and makeshift schools.
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Rural |
| | Concerns for Marlborough's wine industry
By ALEX VAN WEL
New vines will come online, the dollar will surely begin to lose a bit of its shine making wine cheaper for foreign importers, and up until now there has been no sign of any slowing demand for the unique taste of our sauvignon blanc and pinot noir.
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| | Tenure review cuts merino numbers
A looming wool-supply crisis for the New Zealand Merino Company, partly blamed on South Island tenure reviews, means it will seek Australian wool to meet some of its contracts.
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| | Top Maori farmers named
Dean and Kristen Nikora, a couple of townies who tossed in their urban jobs to go dairy farming, took less than 20 years to become milk millionaires, and were tonight named the nation's best Maori farmers.
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Business |
| | Telecom's broadband rivals 'fired up'
By JON HOYLE
The Government's broadband regulations have fired up competition, Telecommunications Commissioner Ross Patterson says, following Vodafone's announcement yesterday that it has moved its broadband equipment into 19 Telecom exchanges.
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Dominion Post |
 | Ghost town in the heart of Wellington
DAVE BURGESS
A $3 million upgrade of the Tonks heritage area in central Wellington has turned it into a wasteland for boozers, drug addicts and prostitutes.
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| | Massey faces claims of supporting poor research
ANNA CHALMERS and JENNY LING
Massey University has been accused of supporting substandard research as controversy grows over a report claiming Pacific Islanders are becoming an underclass.
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| | Doubts cast on doctor exodus
NIKKI MACDONALD
Three out of four junior doctors are still working in New Zealand five years after graduating, a Dominion Post investigation has found.
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Manawatu Standard |
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| | Dialysis v fruit for kids - tough choices
By JANINE RANKIN
Providing dialysis for the elderly or fruit for kids in poor schools could be the sort of hard choice that will have to be made, warn MidCentral District Health Board members and staff as its hospital services head $8.1 million into the red this year.
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| | Protester to deny trespass
By GRANT MILLER
Protest leader and trespass accused Carwyn Kawana's court appearance yesterday seemed much too brief for his liking.
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 | Red tape binds city venture
By KATIE CHAPMAN
A disabled carpark in their driveway and endless paperwork - embroiled in a sea of red tape, a Palmerston North couple are at their wits' end.
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Marlborough Express |
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 | Users divided on need for a new theatre
The prospect of a new theatre for Marlborough has blown up into controversy and will tax the minds of the Marlborough District Council over the next couple of days before they decide if it should be in the annual budget or not. We asked the arts community for their opinions.
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 | Speeding up Marlborough
Jo Gilbert and Fairfax
Last month Chris O'Connell was appointed chairman of the Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand. We spoke to him about his hi-tech plans.
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The Nelson Mail |
 | Orchestra head sent to jail for four years
The director of the Nelson Symphony Orchestra has been sentenced to four years' jail for making "a clinical and cynical" attempt to defraud taxpayers of more than $850,000.
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| | College in lockdown over scare
By KIRAN CHUG
Boarders at Nelson College were locked in and ordered to lie low and stay away from the windows after fears that a parent with "violent tendencies" could be coming to the school to confront staff on Thursday.
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The Press |
 | Rare award for bravery
John Hartevelt
Christchurch mum Maggie Lawson's brave action in stopping an out-of-control car has earned her a rare honour.
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| | 'Pack' girls in school bullying
By ALEX VAN WEL
Violent assaults among secondary school students appear to be increasing, and girls are adopting a similar "pack mentality" to boy bullies, says the Children's Commissioner.
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 | Robbie Deans: Taking it to the enemy
Diehard Canterbury Robbie Deans' fans now have to deal with their hero being in charge of the arch-rival Aussies. It will be strange for Deans, too, as TONY SMITH found.
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Southland Times |
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 | Matariki show visual, cultural treat
By NICOLA KEAN
If the preview show was anything to go by, those with tickets to tonight's Matariki show at the Civic Theatre are in for a visual and cultural treat.
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Taranaki Daily News |
 | Shame of charity burglar
By GLENN McLEAN glenn.mclean@tnl.co.nz
House For Karen burglar Kevin Ronald Bishell has done little to pay for his callous crime.
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| | Injured cyclist goes home
A promising young Christchurch cyclist who was injured in a road crash near Waitara on Monday was transferred from Taranaki Base Hospital to Christchurch Hospital by air yesterday afternoon.
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Timaru Herald |
 | SC firms in power vigil
Heavy power users in South Canterbury are keeping a keen eye on its availability, key to their viability. Tracey Chatterton reports.
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| | Crisis campaign needed
An energy conservation programme is needed as the hydro lakes dip dangerously low, Aoraki MP Jo Goodhew said yesterday.
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Auckland |
 | Taggers face the penalty
By PIPPA O'ROURKE
Seven taggers believed to have caused more than $100,000 worth of damage across the North Shore have been charged by police over the past three weeks.
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| | Lost event costs Shore millions
The North Shore is set to lose millions in business revenue after surrendering the rights to host December’s world junior table tennis championships.
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| | Waterview fears slum future
By HEATHER McCRACKEN
Residents have made a plea to Transit bosses not to leave Waterview a slum after building a $1.89 billion twin tunnel through the suburb.
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| | Robbers target children
By JUSTINE GLUCINA
Police have arrested four teenaged boys in connection with several armed robberies on schoolchildren.
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Central North Island |
 | Protection sought for historic building
By Simon Earle
A building consent application to demolish Rotorua Club's Fenton St premises has been lodged with Rotorua District Council but opposition is mounting on the grounds of the building's historic value.
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| | Tribute to Harawene possible
By Phil Campbell
A permanent memorial as a tribute to Harawene the dog, which kept vigil on Te Ngae Rd, now appears a possibility.
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 | Companion honour for Treaty negotiator
By Simon Earle
Long service to Maori and the community and ongoing work in Treaty settlement claims has seen Anaru Rangiheuea honoured with the Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit.
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| | Numbers seem alien to most
By Phil Campbell
It takes seven minutes for Nasa's spaceship on Mars to send messages to Earth. It must have taken councillors seven light years to register all the data of Rotorua District Council's financial review and performance achievements.
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Hawke's Bay |
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| | Cremation and grave bad debts
KATHY WEBB
A woman lies in an unpaid-for grave in a Hastings cemetery, and another late resident scored a free cremation - just two bad debts written off by Hastings District Council.
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| | Second gang attack in suburb
A Hastings man has head injuries after being "viciously beaten" in the second unprovoked attack by gang members in a week.
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Northland |
 | Heritage bypass to open June 23
The $17 million Kerikeri Heritage Bypass, described as ‘the biggest and most significant roading project in the Far North District Council’s history’, is expected to open to traffic on June 23.
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| | Threat to natural assets
It’s the trees, rivers and streams of the natural environment that make Kerikeri unique, according to Vision Kerikeri chairman Rod Brown.
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 | Far North looks for independence
By RICHARD EDMONDSON
The Far North could break away from the Northland region if a district council bid to acquire powers and responsibilities held by the regional council is successful.
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