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Top Stories |
| | Boy distraught after mum run over
LATEST: Witnesses to a hit-and-run in South Auckland comforted the victim's distraught eight-year-old son as the woman lay critically injured in a shopping centre carpark.
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| | Liquor law changes likely
Liquor laws may have to be changed to solve problems associated with binge drinking and violent offending, the prime minister says.
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Technology |
 | The next MP3?
Much like the Dvorak keyboard, new digital music formats pose a challenge even as they offer solutions.
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| | Stickmen adds to niche market
Christchurch's burgeoning video game industry has received a further boost with the latest game development studio to open in the city.
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 | Review: Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures
By ELIOT FISH
The brutal universe of Robert E. Howard's Conan The Barbarian has been forged into a mighty new Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG), with the potential to usurp the current online king, World Of Warcraft.
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National News |
| | Emission compo for Kiwi homes
By VERNON SMALL
The Government is preparing to compensate households hit by higher power and fuel prices to win backing for its emission trading scheme.
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| | $800,000 bill for Kahui trial
By NATHAN BEAUMONT
The failed prosecution of Chris Kahui for his twin sons' murders will cost taxpayers more than $800,000.
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| | Police hunt man seen knocking on doors
By KIM RUSCOE
Police investigating the home invasion and murder of 80-year-old Yan Pin Yang are withholding details about her injuries which only the killer will know.
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Sport |
 | Mediate and Woods head for extra holes
By MARK LAMPORT-STOKES
BREAKING NEWS: Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate are headed into double overtime after their 18-hole US Open playoff ended even at Torrey Pines in California this morning.
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| | Mexted takes it on the chin
By JONATHAN MILLMOW
Former All Black Murray Mexted accepts his provocative commentary style is not everyone's cup of tea, but says he loves the role and has the support of his Sky TV bosses.
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| | Elliott set for Black Caps ODI debut
By MARK GEENTY
Allrounder Grant Elliott could be pressed straight into action for New Zealand in tomorrow night's (NZ time) second one-day cricket international against England in Birmingham as the tourists' struggle without Jacob Oram.
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World News |
| | Bush wins backing over Iran sanctions
US President George W. Bush has won backing for tighter sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme and secured a pledge to send more troops to Afghanistan.
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| | French truckers block roads in protest
Truckers have blocked roads across France in their latest protest against high fuel costs and called on the government to help their struggling industry.
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Rural |
| | Anchor fights Angkor
By NICK CHURCHOUSE
Fonterra has appealed against a decision to let an Indonesian company use the brand Angkor in New Zealand, claiming it is too close to the Anchor brand.
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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 |
| | Cost-cutting Tenon warns of 20pc revenue fall
By ANDREW JANES
Struggling with a moribund United States housing market and a high Kiwi dollar, wood products maker and marketer Tenon said it was successfully cutting costs as it forecast earnings 15 to 20 per cent down on the year before.
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| | Fletcher's share price down more
By KRIS HALL
Fletcher Building's miserable time on the New Zealand stock exchange continued yesterday, the price heading south of Friday's three-year low. Shares closed at $6.70, down another 2 cents after Friday's 28-point fall.
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| | Stickmen adds to niche market
Christchurch's burgeoning video game industry has received a further boost with the latest game development studio to open in the city.
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Dominion Post |
 | Giant footprints in the land
PAUL EASTON
High on the hills above Makara the concrete footprints of a huge wind farm are being punched into the ground.
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| | Emission compo for Kiwi homes
VERNON SMALL
The Government is preparing to compensate households hit by higher power and fuel prices to win backing for its emission trading scheme.
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| | $800,000 bill for Kahui trial
NATHAN BEAUMONT
The failed prosecution of Chris Kahui for his twin sons' murders will cost taxpayers more than $800,000.
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| | Knifeman 'kept coming' at boy
A teenager caught tagging kept backing away from a man with a knife, but the man "kept coming", one of his relatives has told a court.
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Manawatu Standard |
| | Long wait for your day in court
By JODY O'CALLAGHAN
Palmerston North District Court has seen a drop in waiting times compared with many other courts - but the wait is still more than a year.
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 | Racing this time: New centre open
By MICHAEL CUMMINGS
Awapuni Racecourse's new $8.7 million function centre was officially opened at the Manawatu Racing Club steeplechase meeting on Saturday.
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| | Speed is suspected in death
By JODY O'CALLAGHAN
A teenager is dead and two were injured after a car crashed into a concrete power pole at Himatangi Beach on Saturday afternoon.
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Marlborough Express |
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The Nelson Mail |
| | Top of south attracts oil drillers
By MARCUS STICKLEY
The hunt is on for black gold as high prices and improved technology bring oil prospectors back to re-explore the Nelson region.
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| | Pharmacy fee might hit elderly
By TOM HUNT
The long-running dispute over a controversial dispensing fee charged by almost all of the Nelson region's pharmacies has come to an end but could hit the pockets of the elderly hardest.
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| | Small boat conquers Cook Strait
By KAREN GOODGER
For someone who had just set a record by sailing the notorious Cook Strait in a 2.3m dinghy, 14-year-old Hope schoolgirl Phillippa Wood was pretty blase Monday morning.
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The Press |
| | Govt's big green cash machine
By Colin Espiner, Political editor
The Government stands to make billions from its key climate change policy while householders facing higher power and petrol prices under the scheme await details of a compensation package.
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| | Call to restrict liquor outlets
Dan Eaton National affairs editor
The Government wants to limit the supply of liquor almost 20 years after Parliament liberalised it, in a bid to tackle violent crime.
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Southland Times |
| | Province facing worker shortage
By CASSANDRA POKONEY
Southland will need at least another 12,500 workers by 2016 and a wide range of new initiatives to bring in those workers, two new reports released by Venture Southland say.
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 | Thick fog strands travellers at airport
By GARY MOODY
An air of quiet resignation lay thicker than the fog that disrupted flights at Invercargill Airport yesterday morning, stranding about 100 people.
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| | Cafe cops fine for wine mix-up
A Queenstown cafe which served up dishwashing liquid instead of mulled wine was yesterday ordered in the Queenstown District Court to make emotional harm payments of $1000 to each of the two victims.
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Taranaki Daily News |
 | Army blast ends bomb scare
By LEIGHTON KEITH leighton.keith@tnl.co.nz
Army bomb disposal experts last night blew up a suspicious package found on the steps of New Plymouth police station, ending a six-hour drama.
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 | Huge line-out snaps up tickets
By RYAN EVANS ryan.evans@tnl.co.nz
Taranaki's historic September 3 test match is all but sold out and organisers are now considering increasing capacity at Yarrow Stadium with temporary seating.
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 | Children steal Snake Gully show
LYN HUMPHREYS lyn.humphreys@tnl.co.nz
Mokau school children stole the day at the official opening of the $1.9 million Awakino realignment yesterday.
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| | Arrests follow cut to Hawera power lines
By GRETA CLEARY greta.cleary@tnl.co.nz
Four people will appear in the Hawera District Court today after being arrested for cutting power lines with a chain on the weekend.
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Timaru Herald |
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| | Woman learns value of her smoke alarm
An Orbell Street resident learnt just how efficient smoke alarms can be when she arrived home from walking the dog and found the alarm going yesterday morning.
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Auckland |
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| | Struggling on $50,000
By HAYDEN DONNELL
Catherine Kidd’s job used to be putting a "band aid" over financial troubles.
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| | Dummies won't fool transit lane police
By LIZ WILLIS
Blow-up dolls and mannequins are being put in car passenger seats to try to trick council officers monitoring transit lanes, says North Shore City Council.
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 | Few leads on fatal attack
By KAREN MANGNALL
Police are appealing for help to catch the killer of an 80-year-old Chinese woman attacked in her Manurewa home.
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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 |
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| | New Maori festival
Hawke's Bay is to hold a new Maori festival which expects to attract 25,000 visitors.
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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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Northland |
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| | Winter cold is a killer
By DENISE PIPER
The winter cold is killing Northlanders despite the area being the ‘winterless north’.
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