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Top Stories |
| | Laser risk at airport
By GREER McDONALD
Pilots risk being blinded by laser attacks on passenger-filled aircraft, with Wellington airport the most dangerous in the country, aviation authorities have warned.
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Technology |
 | A guide to 5MP cameraphones
By WILL HARVIE
I showed a couple of professional photographers at The Press some 5 megapixel camera cellphones and their reactions were telling. "Bloody hell," said one.
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 | Review: Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker
By ANGUS DEACON
Jada Toys have teamed up with the makers of the "Guitar Hero" video game to release the Guitar Hero Air Guitar Rocker. Basically every air guitarists dream come true, it is a toy/gadget that includes a magnetic guitar pick, a special belt buckle and a mini-amplifier.
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 | Review: LG Viewty KU990 mobile
By REUBEN SCHWARZ
This LG touchscreen Vodafone 3G mobile has some snazzy features, and as a cameraphone it's definitely top notch.
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National News |
 | Landmark legal win for RSA survivor
By BEN FAWKES
Victims of violent crime may now be able to sue for damages, after a court ruled that the survivor of the Mt Wellington RSA triple murders can take action against the Corrections Department.
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| | Police raid Mongrel Mob base
The armed offenders squad yesterday swooped on the Hastings Mongrel Mob headquarters looking for men wanted in relation to a vicious attack on Sunday.
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| | Watchdog investigates power ads
By COLIN ESPINER
The Commerce Commission has launched an inquiry into Meridian Energy's "carbon-neutral" advertising, amid claims the company is buying up to a third of its power from thermal generators.
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| | NZ not anti-Semitic despite ad, say Nats
By MATT CALMAN
National MP Murray McCully has joined the Israeli embassy in condemning an advertising campaign that upset the Jewish community, but rejects claims that New Zealand accepts anti-Semitic behaviour.
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Sport |
| | Zinzan kicks ABs
Zinzan Brooke has put the boot into the All Blacks, predicting they will struggle to beat England tonight - and will finish last in the Tri-Nations.
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| | Rams owner returns to US
By GEOFF LONGLEY
Canterbury Rams franchise owner John Watson is returning to the United States to live but still intends to retain his involvement in the organisation.
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World News |
| | Ireland rejects EU treaty
Irish voters have rejected the European Union's Lisbon treaty, putting plans to overhaul the bloc's institutions in peril and humiliating Ireland's political leaders.
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| | At least 9 dead in wave of Russia violence
Russia's volatile North Caucasus has experienced one of its worst eruptions of violence in months with at least nine people killed in a series of attacks across the region.
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| | EU to ban bluefin tuna fishing
The EU has banned bluefin tuna trawling in the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean to stop overfishing of a species that is approaching stock collapse.
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Rural |
 | Fieldays on record despite drought
By CHRIS GARDNER
Mystery Creek's National Agricultural Fieldays could be heading for another record attendance and experts are predicting $200 million will be spent on site.
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| | Iran seeks to lift dairy, wool trade
By HANK SCHOUTEN
New Zealand and Iran are looking to improve relations and boost trade, according to a visiting senior Iranian foreign ministry official.
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Business |
| | Provincial Finance squeezes out cash
By TINA LAW
Provincial Finance's 14,000 debenture holders will get another 5c in the dollar at the end of the month as some of the company's loans are repaid more quickly than expected.
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| | 'Challenging times' for tourism
By ALAN WOOD
Tourism Holdings Ltd (THL) has downgraded its profit forecast because of visitor sector downturn and "challenging times".
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| | Virgin to cut routes, raise fares
Virgin Blue will raise most of its domestic airfares, cut costs by $A50 million ($NZ63.1 million) and reduce capacity in a bid to offset skyrocketing jet fuel prices, as airlines around the world battle rising expenses.
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| | Flashback to LPG
By JON HOYLE
As the price of petrol lurches upwards, sending shudders through companies and households, Greg Corbett's business outlook gets brighter.
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Dominion Post |
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| | Laser risk at airport
GREER McDONALD
Pilots risk being blinded by laser attacks on passenger-filled aircraft, with Wellington airport the most dangerous in the country, aviation authorities have warned.
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| | Shell breaks ranks on petrol
NICK CHURCHOUSE
Shell has broken ranks and raised petrol by 2c less than its three main competitors who raised prices 12c in two days this week, the sharpest increase so far.
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Manawatu Standard |
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| | Downturn blamed
The Plaza's drop in sales had more to do with the struggling economy than the recent redevelopment, Kiwi Income Property Trust chief executive Angus McNaughton told the Manawatu Standard yesterday.
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| | City rates hike of 11.3% fixed
By KATIE CHAPMAN
It was a marathon effort crossing two calendar days when Palmerston North City Council settled its annual plan, and at the finish line was an 11.3 percent rates increase.
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Marlborough Express |
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| | Pupil faces assault charge
Dee Wilson
A 15-year-old Queen Charlotte College male student is facing charges of assault, intent to injure and possession of an offensive weapon after an incident at the school yesterday morning.
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The Nelson Mail |
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| | Buckle up, hoteliers told
By KAREN GOODGER
The Nelson region's visitor numbers dropped 9 percent in April, and accommodation providers are being warned to prepare for a "flat" period.
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The Press |
 | Pair lived `on the edge'
By ROBYN BRISTOW
Two young North Canterbury men who died from severe head injuries while hitching a ride to Christchurch on top of a freight train "lived life to the full and on the edge", says a rugby clubmate.
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| | Rain eases spot prices
By PAUL GORMAN
Electricity spot prices fell to their lowest levels in months yesterday as promised north-westerly rain brought some relief to depleted southern hydro lakes.
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| | $4.7m ticket left in car
The Christchurch winner of Lotto's $4.7 million Big Wednesday jackpot left his ticket in the car overnight.
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Southland Times |
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 | City man upset dog still alive
By EVAN HARDING
An Invercargill man savagely attacked by a rottweiler dog six months ago is upset the animal is still in the community and its owner has not been prosecuted.
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Taranaki Daily News |
| | NP rates to rise by average of 9.13 per cent
By ROB MAETZIG rob.maetzig@tnl.co.nz
All the Razor Gang's posturings and promises came to nothing yesterday at the New Plymouth District Council annual budget meeting - in fact the district's rates are to rise by more than originally forecast.
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| | Funding for new kohanga
BY HARRIET PALMER harriet.palmer@tnl.co.nz
A New Plymouth Kohanga Reo has been given more than $700,000 by the Government for a new, purpose-built centre on South Rd.
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| | Origin in for the long haul
By ROB MAETZIG rob.maetzig@tnl.co.nz
A $115 million purchase of major Taranaki oil and gas assets will take place today, with big consequences for the region's energy industry.
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Timaru Herald |
 | Young runners stride out
RUNNING HOT: It was head down and hearts pumping for more than 400 children taking part in the annual Timaru rural schools cross-country yesterday.
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| | Murder trial ordered
Justices of the Peace hearing depositions have decided the youths accused of murdering Wayne Bray will face trial. Herald Staff report.
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Auckland |
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| | Smoking not cool say students
By LUCY VICKERS
Shore students’ views on smoking support statistics that smoking isn’t cool for most Kiwi teenagers.
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 | Battle site revisited
By JANIE SMITH
For Brendan O’Carroll, travelling thousands of miles and crossing a scorching desert was a small price to pay to uncover a piece of New Zealand history.
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Central North Island |
| | Public life extracts toll
The public way in which Manukau Mayor Len Brown, approaching middle age at 51, became ill is a reminder in a fast moving world of the high expectation of elected officials, writes Phil Campbell, Editor Rotorua review.
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 | 9/11 medico returns to Rotorua roots
By Phil Campbell
A heavy, `odourless stench' still hovers over the World Trade Centre site destroyed by the Twin Tower destruction of 2001, September 9. Karla Hale, an acupuncturist and expert in Chinese healing, nutritional counselling and apitherapy, was working 1.5kms away in New York when the the world was shattered by two aircraft with Al Qaeda operatives drilling the huge turrets which pierced the azure, cloudless sky.
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| | EBoP declines money for airport expansion
By Phil Campbell
A temporary setback is how Rotorua Mayor Kevin Winters regards Environment Bay of Plenty's rejected request of $15 million for Rotorua Airport extensions.
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Hawke's Bay |
| | Record wine haul but prices won't fall
KRIS HALL
Wine drinkers looking to savour a Kiwi tipple will still have to dig deep into their pockets, despite the industry delivering its biggest harvest.
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| | Queen's Birthday festival date
The Maori Film Festival will be held at Wairoa every Queen's Birthday weekend. Festival director Leo Koziol said the theme next year would be "peace in our time". He said the third festival, this month, had been a success with good houses and a sellout for the awards dinner.
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 | Tagger avoids prison for now
MARTY SHARPE
Tagger Quentin McKelvey did not take his toothbrush and pyjamas to court as instructed by Judge Tony Adeane, and it turned out he did not have to ... yet.
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Northland |
 | Problem solving champions
The Kerikeri High School team came first in their division at the 2008 Future Problem Solving International Conference for their project that looked at ways of teaching sun safety to primary school children.
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| | Auditor says 'no' on hall
By KERI MOLLOY
The office of the Auditor-General has turned down a request by the Kerikeri Memorial Hall Committee 2008 to investigate dealings by the Far North District Council, Far North Holdings, and the Kerikeri and Paihia Community Board concerning the Kerikeri Memorial Hall.
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| | Good news for ratepayers
Far North ratepayers can expect one of the lowest rate rises in the country, while $8 million of savings means money is available for some major projects, including the Waipapa intersection.
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