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Top Stories |
 | Son a lethal weapon, says mother
By KELLY BURNS
The mother of a neo-Nazi skinhead shot three times says he is a "lethal weapon" with nothing to lose and she lives in fear of what he will do.
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| | Peters has nose for trouble
By DAN EATON and TRACY WATKINS
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has accused Pacific Island men of being useless, prone to "parading around like peacocks" and leaving all the work to women.
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Technology |
| | Bored of your life? Buy a new one
When Ian Usher's partner of 12 years left him broken-hearted, he decided the best way to move forward was to auction his whole life, in one job lot.
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 | Review: Assassin's Creed: Director's Cut
By REUBEN ELLETT - NZGamer.com
November 2007 was the month that the gaming world witnessed the births of some excellent titles: Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect, Unreal Tournament III, Super Mario Galaxy, and Crysis.
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 | Sydney Apple store lures hardcore Mac fans
By DANIEL EMERSON
To the uninitiated, it may appear that Matthew Philpott has flown all the way from Birmingham in the UK and camped out all night in the Sydney CBD for a set of headphones.
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National News |
| | Police invite English players to talk
By PHIL HAMILTON
Police have asked to speak to the four English rugby players involved in an incident with a woman at the team's Auckland hotel last weekend.
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| | 'Designer baby' boom ruled out
By REBECCA PALMER
Experts doubt a controversial recommendation to allow parents to pick the sex of their unborn babies will gain much traction.
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Sport |
| | Borthwick plays down hotel saga
By JIM KAYES
Beaten on the field and sullied off it, England face the threat of a police investigation into four players adding to the misery the All Blacks hope to pile on them tomorrow night.
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| | Don't write Warriors off - Price
By GARY BIRKETT
Steve Price knows his heroics for Queensland in Origin rugby league need to be transferred to the New Zealand Warriors when they take on the Manly Sea Eagles on Sunday in an NRL match that could make or break their season.
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World News |
| | Zimbabwe poll 'cannot be fair'
Zimbabwe's presidential run-off election is very unlikely to be fair, Tanzania's foreign minister said, speaking on behalf of a troika of southern African nations.
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| | Nigeria attack stops Shell's Bonga offshore oil
Militants in speedboats attacked Royal Dutch Shell's main offshore facility in Nigeria, cutting the country's oil output by a tenth and raising fears of a new campaign against deepwater installations.
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| | Call for Hindu suicide squads sparks anger
A powerful Hindu-nationalist political party in western India has called for Hindu suicide squads to counter Islamic terrorism, causing outrage and embarrassing the national opposition with which it is allied.
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Rural |
 | Investment establishes the family business
By JON MORGAN
It is a remarkably generous gift. Manawatu dairy farmers Barry and Maree Taylor allowed their sons to use the equity in their farm to borrow $3.2 million to pay for their own 100-hectare farm and the dairy company shares needed to run it.
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| | Environment theme for next Fieldays
The environment will be the main theme of next year's National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton, with the local regional council, Environment Waikato, being named the sponsor of the premier feature.
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Business |
| | Overseas investors dump NZ shares
By KRIS HALL
Overseas off-loading continued unabated yesterday in the wake of weakening international markets, forcing the New Zealand sharemarket beneath its 27-month low.
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| | Four loans may have crippled finance firm
By ROELAND VAN DEN BERGH
Dominion Finance may have been brought down by just four loans, thought to be worth up to $20 million, that were not repaid on time, finance company analyst Chris Lee says.
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| | Fuel costs test tourism firms
By ALAN WOOD
Vehicle-based tourism businesses are struggling to contain surging fuel prices within their cost structure, forcing changes to business models including the use of smaller cars.
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Dominion Post |
 | Top cop dies in crash
OSKAR ALLEY, PAUL EASTON, PAUL MULROONEY
A top police officer who had headed the national road safety programme is dead after a collision with a truck while cycling.
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| | Peters has nose for trouble
DAN EATON and TRACY WATKINS
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has accused Pacific Island men of being useless, prone to "parading around like peacocks" and leaving all the work to women.
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Marlborough Express |
| | $5 charge blamed on Pharmac
Rose Daly
Pharmac has now been named as the bogeyman in the fiasco over pharmacy charges which see customers paying up to $5 extra because of faulty prescriptions.
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| | Thumbs up for energy saving light bulbs
Claire Connell
Blenheim lighting specialist Peter Eldridge has made the change to energy efficient light bulbs and reckons the country could drop a power station if everyone else joined him.
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Manawatu Standard |
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| | Dogs banned from fields
By JONATHON HOWE
A dog attack at a Feilding junior rugby match has led to portable dog banning signs being distributed to sports organisers.
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 | School TV channel debuts
By MICHELLE DUFF
It was lights, camera, and action for a group of showbiz-savvy students in Palmerston North yesterday morning.
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The Nelson Mail |
 | Sealord reversals anger workers
By JOSH REICH
Sealord is stopping production of half-shell mussels at its Nelson factory three weeks early, after accusations the company tried to "blackmail" staff into returning to work a day after terminating their employment.
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The Press |
| | Peters has nose for trouble
By DAN EATON and TRACY WATKINS
Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has accused Pacific Island men of being useless, prone to "parading around like peacocks" and leaving all the work to women.
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| | Top officer dies in crash
A top police officer who had headed the national road safety programme has been killed in a road crash while cycling.
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| | Firm's shares dumped
Marta Steeman
Dominion Finance Holdings shareholders dumped their shares yesterday after the stricken company said it was struggling to repay debenture-holders.
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Southland Times |
 | Gang tensions on knife edge
By DYLAN THORNE
Long-running tensions between Invercargill gangs the Road Knights and the Mongrel Mob flared in public yesterday as the Road Knights' building in Balmoral Dr was gutted in a spectacular early morning fire.
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 | Car dealer says lighter right feet needed
By SEAN GILLESPIE
High fuel costs have boosted the number of people looking to buy smaller cars but an Invercargill car dealer says fixing bad driving habits would help just as much.
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 | Man hauled from blazing gang pad
Firefighters hauled an injured man from a fiercely burning gang headquarters in Invercargill this morning that required all the city's fire engines to battle the blaze.
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Taranaki Daily News |
| | Top cop against arming police
By LEIGHTON KEITH leighton.keith@tnl.co.nz
A top Taranaki cop says permanent armed police are not needed in his patch.
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Timaru Herald |
| | Drivers nearly ticketed
Ten per cent of Timaru drivers could have had their pockets lightened by $150 -- or worse -- when they were driving to work yesterday.
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Auckland |
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| | Cliff Rd fix to cost $4m
By JUSTINE GLUCINA
Emergency works to stabilise cliff-top roads in danger of subsiding with heavy rain will cost ratepayers $4 million.
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 | Piha Rd causes concern
By STEPHEN FORBES
Stretches of Piha Rd are a danger to public safety and must be fixed before someone is killed, says William Murdoch.
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Central North Island |
 | Anthem right groove for soprano Marvelly
By Phil Campbell
Elizabeth Marvelly, the Rotorua soprano perhaps a groove or two away from cementing stardom, performed before her biggest audience two weekends ago.
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| | Judge reserves decision
An environment court judge has reserved her decision over a judicial review of the proposed shift of Environment Bay of Plenty's headquarters from Whakatane to Tauranga.
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 | Rotorua carving to adorn temple
By Simon Earle
An intricate carving by renowned Rotorua craftsman Clive Fugill will adorn the entranceway to the Wat Paknam Temple to be opened in Welcome Bay on Sunday.
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Hawke's Bay |
 | Bay ref quits over abuse
MARTY SHARPE
The abuse of Hawke's Bay rugby referees by players, coaches and spectators has led to a senior referee resigning and prompted a crisis meeting with the local union and clubs.
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| | Wheelchair man's home invaded
Police are hoping forensic evidence will lead them to two men who invaded a Napier home and attacked a man in a wheelchair.
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Northland |
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| | Domain action group disbands
The Kerikeri Domain Action Group is disbanding to make way for a new community trust being formed to progress the development of the domain.
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 | Thinking ahead to restore birds
The Puketi Forest Trust, which has been working to restore wildlife to Puketi Forest since 2003, is aiming to raise $1 million in capital to fund the restoration of the unique subtropical kauri forest in perpetuity
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