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Top Stories |
| | Reinforcements called in after gang fires
Invercargill police are bracing themselves for a fresh round of gang violence after a group of around 30 gang members were seen boarding a ferry for the South Island earlier this week.
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 | Burglaries spread like a disease
By EMILY WATT
Burglaries spread like contagious diseases, international research shows, meaning if your neighbour has just been burgled, your risk of being hit in the next two weeks increases.
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| | Killer driver a police witness says MP
By MARTIN KAY
A criminal who killed a woman in a car crash while he was on parole was a police informer and a protected witness, ACT MP Heather Roy has told Parliament.
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| | Row brews over drug subsidies
By RUTH HILL
A political row is brewing over suggestions that patients under private medical care could lose access to subsidised drugs - a move that would cost some people tens of thousands of dollars.
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Technology |
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 | Review: Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution
By SAM WALDRON - NZGamer.com
You say you want a revolution... Well if that means dumbing down my all-time favourite strategy game to please console fanboys, you can count me out!
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National News |
| | Defence Ministry defends price blowouts
LATEST: The Defence Ministry says it has information detailing why cost blowouts in its major equipment purchases occurred, but it is not in an easily accessible form.
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Sport |
 | Erakovic sails through to third round
New Zealand's Marina Erakovic has marched into the third round of Wimbledon with a gritty but classy 6-2 7-6 win over German tennis player Julia Goerges.
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| | Hansen keen on crusade
By KEVIN TUTTY
All Blacks assistant coach Steve Hansen says he started to think about applying for the Crusaders head coach position when Robbie Deans announced he was heading to Australia.
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World News |
| | Mugabe says vote must go ahead
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has rejected African calls to postpone a presidential election, saying there could be no interference in his country even from the African Union.
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| | North Korea taken off US terror state list
North Korea has handed over a long-delayed account of its nuclear activities, prompting a still-wary US President George W Bush to ease some sanctions on a country he once deemed part of an "axis of evil."
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| | Bombs kill 40 in Iraq, Anbar handover still on
Bombs have killed nearly 40 people in Iraq, including 20 at a tribal council meeting in Anbar province just days before the US military transfers control of security for the vast western region to Iraqi forces.
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| | Obama leads in four battleground states
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in four battleground states, according to a new survey that pollsters said could point to a broad Obama victory in November.
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Rural |
| | NZ farmers feel 'unloved'
By TIM CRONSHAW
Big spending farmers are fleeing New Zealand to invest in countries where there are no anti-farmer feelings.
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 | Paying the organic price
By JON MORGAN
A world-first 10-year trial by agricultural science institute AgResearch shows hill-country sheep and beef farmers can make the change to organics without harming animal health.
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Business |
| | Growth data to put Kiwi on slide
By JAMES WEIR
The Kiwi dollar may fall further if economic growth figures out today are as bad as the worse-than-expected current account deficit, economists say.
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| | Trust in St Laurence `dented'
By ROELAND VAN DEN BERGH
St Laurence investors who renewed $1.6 million worth of investments last month will not be refunded, despite their original investments not maturing till July.
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| | Buy long-term bonds for income - broker
By NICK CHURCHOUSE
Amid failing finance companies, indebted households, stiff inflation and a stagnant housing market, New Zealand is a good place to be, ABN Amro Craigs' chief investment adviser says.
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| | Five Mile solution sought
By MARTA STEEMAN
Large property lender Hanover Finance says it has several options to protect its lending on the Five Mile township development, near Queenstown, if a liquidation bid is successful.
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Dominion Post |
 | Burglaries spread like a disease
EMILY WATT
Burglaries spread like contagious diseases, international research shows, meaning if your neighbour has just been burgled, your risk of being hit in the next two weeks increases.
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| | Man mugged for his laptop on Terrace
BREAKING NEWS: Wellington police are seeking reports of any suspicious behaviour in the vicinity of The Terrace after a man was mugged and had his laptop taken this morning.
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| | Killer driver a police witness says MP
MARTIN KAY
A criminal who killed a woman in a car crash while he was on parole was a police informer in the witness protection scheme, ACT MP Heather Roy has told Parliament.
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Marlborough Express |
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Manawatu Standard |
| | Ferries may be operating against law
By CHRISTIAN BONNEVIE
A High Court decision that cleared a Palmerston North ferry captain of wrong-doing has raised concerns that two Bluebridge Cook Strait ferries could be sailing illegally.
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| | All but one vote for rates increase
By KATIE CHAPMAN
The rubber stamp quickly made its mark on Palmerston North's annual plan last night, but hovered over the rates increase and borrowing for more than an hour.
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The Nelson Mail |
| | TDC cash too hot for Grace Church
By KIRAN CHUG
Public criticism has led the Grace Church to withdraw its request for $750,000 from the Tasman District Council for the controversial Headingly Centre, sparking a call for lessons to be learned from the debacle.
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 | Protest fails to halt vote for rates hike
By NAOMI MITCHELL
A last-minute campaign by protesters angry at an 11.95 percent rate rise for Nelson city has failed to sway councillors, who quickly rubber-stamped the increase on Thursday.
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The Press |
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| | Families torn apart by carnage
Martin van Beynen
Families and victims have told Lipine Sila of the devastating effects his lethal drag down Edgeware Road last year has caused.
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Southland Times |
 | It's not cricket
In one of cricket's darkest days, New Zealand beat England in a spiteful match in London yesterday. Black Caps batsman Grant Elliott was controversially run out after being flattened in a mid-pitch collision with Englishman Ryan Sidebottom. Sports editor Nathan Burdon reckons:
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 | Pavilion set to knock your festival socks off
By WILL HINE in Queenstown
Those attending Queenstown Winter Festival events at the Kawarau Falls Station Pavilion in Ballarat St during the next 10 days are about to learn a short, sharp life lesson — never judge a pavilion by its cover.
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Taranaki Daily News |
| | Rampant rats ruin life of resident
By RICHARD WOODD richard.woodd@tnl.co.nz
It's rodent heaven at 23 Juliet St, Stratford, but rats are making life hell for the owner, the tenant, the neighbour and the plumber.
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| | Council boss takes Southcare job
By RICHARD WOODD richard.woodd@tnl.co.nz
South Taranaki District Council boss Craig Stevenson is the new chairman of Southcare.
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 | City quiz team strikes it lucky
By LEIGHTON KEITH leighton.keith@tnl.co.nz
A New Plymouth pub quiz team is $5000 richer after winning a national competition.
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| | Guilty verdict thrills victim
By GLENN McLEAN glenn.mclean@tnl.co.nz
The shop assistant who had her head rammed through a thick glass counter last year could barely contain her joy after her attacker was found guilty of the unprovoked assault after a two-day trial yesterday.
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Auckland |
 | Matariki plants ruined
By KAREN KOTZE
A community planting project to celebrate Matariki has been destroyed by vandals who ripped out dozens of new trees.
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| | Little bins replace big bruisers
By HEATHER McCRACKEN
Residents struggling to wheel their new supersized recycling bin to the kerb can downsize to a smaller model.
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 | Smoke alarm saves family
By PIPPA O'ROURKE
Three Sunnynook residents may not have survived the fire that spread through their home on Tuesday had it not been for a smoke alarm.
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| | Humble hero compelled to help
By PIPPA O'ROURKE
A reluctant hero felt like someone picked him up by the collar and marched him over to a crowd in a Takapuna carpark.
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Central North Island |
 | Danyon gives loads of good advice to kids
By Simon Earle
Apprehension is a normal trait but double Olympic gold medallist Danyon Leader urged a young audience in Rotorua recently to overcome their fears and give lots of opportunities a try during their lives.
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 | Ngongotaha sculpture trail opens
By Simon Earle
Ngongotaha's reputation as a growing centre for the arts has been re-emphasised with a World Environment Day opening of a sculpture trail in the village.
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Hawke's Bay |
| | Judge hot over gang signals
MARTY SHARPE
Gang members, like everyone else, are welcome in court – but making gang hand-signals or "barking" will not be tolerated, a Hawke's Bay judge has said.
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| | Minister tells of sacking date
MARTY SHARPE
An e-mail that appears to show Health Minister David Cunliffe had decided to sack the Hawke's Bay District Health Board before consulting board members is a "factual misunderstanding", he told Parliament yesterday.
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Northland |
 | Road opening changes Kerikeri forever
By KERI MOLLOY
From the dawn unveiling of poupou at the new bypass to the midnight closure of the old bridge, Sunday was a watershed day for Kerikeri.
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 | Crossroads for the preservation society
By CATHY ROBINSON
Thirty-nine years ago Gerry Clark was astonished by a roaring bulldozer toppling gum trees on the ridge above the Kerikeri Stone Store basin.
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