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Top Stories |
| | Gangs out of control
By EMILY WATT
Police say it is sheer luck they are not dealing with a multiple homicide after Mongrel Mob members rampaged through a 21st birthday party, swinging knives, baseball bats and a machete.
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 | Tsvangirai pulls out of election
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence.
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| | Silence let child abuse continue
By KAY BLUNDELL
Three children repeatedly beaten with a broom handle were so hungry they had to rummage in rubbish bins, and yet neighbours were too scared to report the cruelty they witnessed.
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Technology |
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| | Comics coming to your mobile
After taking on the big and small screens, comic book heroes like Spiderman and Superman may soon be appearing on an even smaller screen - your mobile phone.
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 | Stuff's guide to digital SLRs
By PAT PILCHER
Point, shoot. For a lot of cameras, that's all you have to worry about. And for a lot of people that's just fine.
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| | Your reviews: Okta Mondo mobile
By ANTHONY LEALAND
I lost my Sanyo phone and Telecom gave me an Okta Mondo one and $100 credit. I should have wondered why.
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National News |
| | Survivor tells of fatal boat crash
A survivor of Friday's fatal boat accident in the Marlborough Sounds says she will continue to work for the company that owned the vessel.
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 | Shadbolt blames red tape as gang tensions rise
Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt has called for police to be given greater power to deal with gangs after a feud between the Mongrel Mob and Road Knights escalated with another house going up in flames at the weekend.
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| | I was told to act out rape says woman
A woman who alleged her disgraced gynaecologist raped her says she was told to act out the rape by the husband of her former English lawyer, a social worker now working in Blenheim.
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| | Float like a butterfly to Tauranga
By TRACY WATKINS
NZ First leader Winston Peters has finally declared his hand in Tauranga - and is citing the comeback king, Muhammad Ali, in his quest to retake the seat.
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Sport |
| | McCaw out for six weeks
By RICHARD KNOWLER
If the All Blacks are to beat the World Cup holder next month it will have to be without captain Richie McCaw and probably Ali Williams.
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| | Newcomers spark up Black Caps
By MARK GEENTY
Standout performances from two new arrivals helped convince New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori his lineup can cement their place among the world's top-three one-day international cricket sides.
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| | NZ wins world junior rugby title
BREAKING NEWS: New Zealand has won the junior world rugby championship, beating England 38-3 in the final in Swansea, Wales, this morning (NZ time).
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World News |
| | Tsvangirai pulls out of election
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence.
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| | China's Wen speaks of "calamity-ridden nation"
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, making his third visit to the quake zone, has spoken of a "calamity-ridden nation" but said life in the provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu should be back to normal within two months.
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Rural |
| | March of the tall timbers
By TIM CRONSHAW
Californian redwood trees are making a stand in North Canterbury, where the conditions are perfect for their skyward thrust.
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| | Wheat rises likely
By TIM CRONSHAW
A dud corn planting in the United States is expected to raise returns in the wheat fields of Canterbury.
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| | Debate over GE application
By TIM CRONSHAW
Temuka farmer Jeremy Talbot wants field trials of genetically engineered vegetables held offshore.
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Business |
| | First Beijing, then Europe
By ROELAND van den BERGH
Air New Zealand is planning a new Asia-Europe link service to capitalise on the burgeoning Chinese travel market, which could help bring hundreds of millions of dollars into the tourism economy.
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| | KiwiSaver flows continue
By KRIS HALL
Fund inflows into KiwiSaver products have provided welcome protection from the headwinds buffeting New Zealand's financial services sector.
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| | India key to Telco revamp
By TOM PULLAR-STRECKER
Telecom has awarded Indian company Tech Mahindra a contract worth $20 million to $30m to help reshape its retail business, providing customers with more self-service options and cutting costs.
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| | Machine gets good vibes from global market
By KRIS HALL
Vibration Technologies International is plotting its assault on the cut-throat global health and fitness sector, armed with revolutionary lifestyle equipment developed in Auckland.
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Dominion Post |
 | Gangs out of control
EMILY WATT
Police say it is sheer luck they are not dealing with a multiple homicide after Mongrel Mob members rampaged through a 21st birthday party, swinging knives, baseball bats and a machete.
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| | I was told to act out rape says woman
PHIL KITCHIN
A woman who alleged her disgraced gynaecologist raped her says she was told to act out the rape by the husband of her former English lawyer, a social worker now working in Blenheim.
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| | Rugby 'minders' helped women
TOM CARDY
Women were taken from Auckland's Pony Club nightclub in a minibus laid on by English rugby team minders to the team's hotel the night one of the women was allegedly raped.
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| | Silence let child abuse continue
KAY BLUNDELL
Three children repeatedly beaten with a broom handle were so hungry they had to rummage in rubbish bins, and yet neighbours were too scared to report the cruelty they witnessed.
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Marlborough Express |
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Manawatu Standard |
| | Men charged with school-girl rape
By CHRISTIAN BONNEVIE and JONATHON HOWE
Two men have been charged with raping two drunk schoolgirls after allegedly supplying them with alcohol in a central Palmerston North hostel.
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 | Te Piringa team new kapa haka champs
By MERVYN DYKES
To the haunting sound of a conch trumpet the new national champion secondary schools' kapa haka team was welcomed home to Palmerston North last night.
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 | Right place saved Geoff
By JANINE RANKIN
A computer technician who suffered a massive heart attack on the job could owe his life to the fact he was surrounded by 5 and 6-year-olds when it happened.
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| | School thief in court
By JODY O'CALLAGHAN
A receptionist who stole more than $27,000 from Opiki School over a period of two years was yesterday sentenced in Palmerston North District Court.
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The Nelson Mail |
| | Fatal crash stuns firm
By Tracy Neal and Fairfax
The head of Nelson company New Zealand King Salmon was today dealing with families and staff devastated by a boat accident yesterday that killed two of his workers and injured four others, two of them seriously.
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| | Harmonious opening for village
BY TRACY NEAL
An elegantly coiffed Dame Malvina Major took the floor of Nelson's newest retirement village in an opening extravaganza last night fit for an opera diva.
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The Press |
 | Carnage on city streets
Ian Steward
Mayhem on Christchurch streets left one woman dead and a man fighting for his life after two separate incidents involving parties, cars and alcohol on Saturday night.
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| | Tsvangirai pulls out of election
Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of a run-off election against President Robert Mugabe, saying a free and fair poll was impossible in the current climate of violence.
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 | Shadbolt blames red tape
Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt has called for police to be given greater power to deal with gangs after a feud between the Mongrel Mob and Road Knights escalated with another house going up in flames at the weekend.
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Southland Times |
 | Second house burns as gang tensions rise in city
By EVAN HARDING
Invercargill Mayor Tim Shadbolt has called for police to be given greater power to deal with gangs after a feud between the Mongrel Mob and Road Knights escalated with another house going up in flames at the weekend.
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| | Icy blast set to coat south with snow
By SAM McKNIGHT and NZPA
Winter is set to tighten its grip on the south with severe weather predicted to bring mixed fortunes for southern farmers and skifields, the MetService said yesterday.
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Taranaki Daily News |
 | Asbestos threat at blaze
By FELICITY ROOKES felicity.rookes@tnl.co.nz
Police are hunting a suspected arsonist after a Fitzroy factory was nearly destroyed by fire early on Saturday morning.
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| | Dark catches out tramper
An Inglewood tramper spent a wet night on Mt Taranaki after getting lost when it became dark on Saturday.
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Timaru Herald |
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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 |
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 | 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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Hawke's Bay |
| | Gangs out of control
EMILY WATT
Police say it is sheer luck they are not dealing with a multiple homicide after Mongrel Mob members rampaged through a 21st birthday party, swinging knives, baseball bats and a machete.
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| | Murder trial aid bill
The Legal Services Agency paid $725,914 in legal aid for the defence of the man charged with murdering Hawke's Bay farmer Jack Nicholas - with another bill pending. The total is expected to cover all defence costs over the two years from Murray Foreman's arrest to his acquittal in May in the High Court at Napier.
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| | Mother hides baby
A young mother who hid her baby then confronted the youth gang brutally assaulting her 21-year-old husband in their home will join a march to protest at Hasting's gang violence next Friday.
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| | Dander's up, so is the surfing
MARTY SHARPE
On one side is Susie Smith, a 62-year-old grandmother saying she was knocked off her surfboard and held underwater.
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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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Entertainment |
 | Amy Winehouse may have tuberculosis
Doctors fear that singer Amy Winehouse's symptoms of coughing up blood, weight loss and lack of appetite point toward the deadly disease tuberculosis - more commonly known as TB.
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 | Jack Black put Coco Pops up his butt
Jack Black - who recently became a father for the second time - admits he found unique ways to entertain himself when he was a child, and found the chocolate-flavoured cereal highly amusing.
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Motoring |
 | First drive: BMW M3 Convertible
By BRUCE NEWTON
It's heavier, slower, less fuel efficient and more expensive than the M3 coupe, but BMW's new M3 Convertible will win over plenty of customers the moment the roof drops and engine revs rise.
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| | Chch may refund $80k parking fines
By REBECCA TODD
The Christchurch City Council may refund up to $80,000 worth of traffic and parking tickets issued to nearly 2000 people since 2005.
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Travel |
 | Ten top new hotels
Looking for a hotel that really stands out from the crowd? Travel magazine Travel + Leisure has come up with its third annual list of the top 30 best new hotels of 2008 with ten top hotels listed below.
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| | Latvian capital wows visitors
The Latvian capital of Riga has been called the Bangkok of the Baltic for its mix of cheap beer, sex clubs and stag party visitors.
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 | Runanga: Labour of history
By MIKE CREAN
The Great Wall of Runanga divides the bar from the billiards room in the workingmen's club of this West Coast coal town.
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