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Top Stories |
 | TV star's secret assault payout
By BERNADETTE COURTNEY
Top television sports presenter Tony Veitch secretly agreed to pay his former partner more than $100,000 after he assaulted her at his house.
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| | Blowout in drug, alcohol benefits
By ANNA CHALMERS, BEN FAWKES and JACKSON PAYNE
Taxpayers are forking out millions in benefit payments to support alcoholics and drug users who claim they cannot work, new figures show.
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 | Stranded drivers wait for thaw
By KAY BLUNDELL
Scores of motorists cut off by heavy snow blanketing the Desert Road and other main central North Island routes could be stranded again today as another big freeze sweeps up from the south.
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Technology |
 | Stuff's guide to World of Warcraft
By ROSS MARTIN
According to most dictionaries, wow is defined as an expression of surprise. However, if you asked around 10 million obsessed teens and young people to define the word, they would come up with something completely different.
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| | 'Boogie SuperStar' aims for young girls
If "American Idol" and a modern fairy tale combined to create a video game, you'd get "Boogie SuperStar" - Electronic Art's latest game for the Nintendo Wii system.
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| | Bain home may be recreated for retrial
Technology could allow jurors in the David Bain retrial to take a virtual walk through the Bains' Dunedin home, 13 years after it was burned to the ground.
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National News |
| | Police chase ends in death
By KELLY BURNS
A "loud bang" woke James and Noreen Williams as a stolen car being chased by police smashed into a power pole, flipped and ploughed into the side of their neighbour's home, killing the teenage driver.
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| | Handling of beneficiaries under review
The auditor-general is investigating Work and Income's handling of sickness and invalid beneficiaries, amid MPs' concerns that the growing caseload is being mismanaged.
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 | Manipulator left trail of hurt
By BECK ELEVEN
The former wife of a man who has claimed to be dying of cancer while receiving financial support from vulnerable women says she is shocked by his new tactics.
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Sport |
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World News |
 | Deadly blast near Pakistani mosque
LATEST: An attack by a suicide bomber has killed at least eight people and wounded 23 in an attack on police who had been guarding Islamists marking the anniversary of an army commando raid on Islamabad's Red Mosque.
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| | Miliband calls for world action on Zimbabwe
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has called on the international community to unite in condemning the re-election of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and said the opposition should now come to power.
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| | Sea surge strands 200,000 in Bangladesh
Some 200,000 people were marooned in Bangladesh when a storm caused a sea surge to swamp a number of villages in southern coastal districts, officials said.
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| | Saudi man, woman face flogging for research
A Saudi appeals court is due to review the case of a biochemist and his female student sentenced to jail and flogging after a lower court ruled their research contact was a front for a telephone affair.
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Rural |
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| | Korea beef exports at risk
By DAN EATON
Beef exports to South Korea, New Zealand's second-biggest market, are at risk after the discovery of chemical contamination.
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| | Silver Fern: Debt reduction will save $16m/year
Silver Fern Farms (formerly PPCS), which this week agreed in principle to sell half its shares to PGG Wrightson for $220 million, said today it expected to cut its interest bill by $16m even before the deal.
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Business |
| | Economic forecasts stay gloomy
By JAMES WEIR
The economy is in recession after five boom years, and the next five years are not looking positive, says independent economics group Infometrics.
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| | Probe into Vodafone after complaints
By CLAIRE McENTEE
The Commerce Commission is investigating Vodafone Live following complaints from customers that they were charged for using "free" services.
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| | Developers put reins on projects
By ROBYN BRISTOW and KATIE WYLIE
Experienced property developers are drawing on nest eggs to get them through as the cooling property market slows development across Canterbury.
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| | Cheal exploration wells come up dry
By JAMES WEIR
Wellington-based Austral Pacific has come up dry on two wells aimed at expanding its Cheal oil field in Taranaki, but it has not given up drilling.
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Dominion Post |
| | TV star's secret assault payout
BERNADETTE COURTNEY
Top television sports presenter Tony Veitch secretly agreed to pay his former partner more than $100,000 after he assaulted her at his house.
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| | Blowout in drug, alcohol benefits
ANNA CHALMERS, BEN FAWKES and JACKSON PAYNE
Taxpayers are forking out millions in benefit payments to support alcoholics and drug users who claim they cannot work, new figures show.
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| | Police chase ends in death
KELLY BURNS
A "loud bang'' woke James and Noreen Williams as a stolen car being chased by police smashed into a power pole, flipped and ploughed into the side of their neighbour's home, killing the teenage driver.
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| | Stranded drivers wait for thaw
KAY BLUNDELL
Scores of motorists cut off by heavy snow blanketing the Desert Road and other main central North Island routes could be stranded again today as another big freeze sweeps up from the south.
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Marlborough Express |
| | Three to pay for new dam
A real estate firm, a law firm and the Marlborough District Council will have to pay for the construction of a dam after a series of blunders over water rights for a block of land sold in the Awatere Valley.
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Manawatu Standard |
 | Cullen: Politics motive behind truck protest
By MICHAEL CUMMINGS
Finance Minister Michael Cullen yesterday accused Road Transport Forum chief executive Tony Friedlander, a former National cabinet minister, of organising yesterday's protest for political motives.
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| | Rail buyback, GST big issues
By GRANT MILLER
GST and the buyback of rail services were the hot topics when Palmerston North people quizzed Finance Minister Michael Cullen in the city yesterday.
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| | Cheap booze is fuelling NZ violence
By CHRISTIAN BONNEVIE and LAURA JACKSON
Supermarkets selling alcohol at a loss to lure shoppers are fuelling New Zealand's binge-drinking culture and violence, police say.
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| | Los leading
Loss leading is not illegal and there is no requirement of supermarkets to refrain from the practice under liquor licensing laws, said Wayne Jameson, of Palmerston North City Council.
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The Nelson Mail |
| | Boy joins tragic toll in Nelson
By KIRAN CHUG
The Stoke boy at the centre of this week's homicide investigation was the ninth child to die violently in the Nelson region in the past 11 years.
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| | Isel Park `most deprived'
By TOM HUNT
Isel Park in Stoke is Nelson and Tasman's most deprived neighbourhood, but the finding comes from a survey that shows the top of the south is over-represented with prosperous areas, sparking fears of cuts of up to $9 million in health funding for the region.
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The Press |
 | Frosty finale to storm forecast
Kim Thomas
Heavy frosts are forecast to grip the country over the next few days in the wake of the worst storm of the winter.
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| | Veitch paid off beaten partner
Bernadette Courtney
Top television sports presenter Tony Veitch agreed to pay his former partner more than $100,000 after he assaulted her at his house.
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Southland Times |
 | Man hurt in fire-blast
By EVAN HARDING and CASSANDRA POKONEY
A 30-year-old Southland man is in Auckland's Middlemore Hospital after suffering serious burns in an explosion at the Dongwha Patinna plant near Mataura on Saturday.
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 | Steel win adds extra note of celebration
By JERRIE ANDREWS in Dunedin
Last night's 54-52 Southern Steel victory over the Queensland Firebirds was cause for double celebration for Steel midcourter Liana Barrett-Chase.
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Taranaki Daily News |
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| | Probe into Methadone role in crashes
LYN HUMPHREYS lyn.humphreys@tnl.co.nz
An investigation will be launched into claims that some drug addicts on the Taranaki methadone programme are misusing their medication and causing serious road crashes.
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| | Police union irate at Wallace myth
By LYN HUMPHREYS lyn.humphreys@tnl.co.nz
An unacceptable myth has grown up around the police shooting of Steven Wallace that he was shot for breaking windows, a frustrated New Zealand Police Association says.
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Timaru Herald |
| | Timaru misses winter wrath
It was a case of everywhere but here as New Zealand -- excluding coastal South Canterbury -- was forced to close down because of the big chill which swept the country over the weekend.
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Auckland |
 | Fears for city's native birds
By MELANIE VERRAN
Conservationists fear a group of native birds will have nowhere to nest if an Auckland City Council order to cull exotic trees on an Orakei Basin private property goes ahead.
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 | Quake can't shake love of China
By MAINA PERROT
An exchange trip to China has turned into the trip of a lifetime for a Mt Eden teenager – in more ways than one.
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 | Kiwi cop on Afghanistan beat
By NICOLA WILLIAMS
The closest most people get to the devastation of a war-torn country is seeing images on a television screen.
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Central North Island |
| | Is Rotorua's water drying up?
By PHIL CAMPBELL
Moves to ensure domestic water use efficiency were aired by Rotorua district councillors last week.
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 | Land values rated a capital idea
By Simon Earle
The organiser of a petition calling for the postponement on a decision over the Rotorua District's rating system wants councillors to indicate their stance.
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| | District council considers liquor bans
By Phil Campbell
Requests to ban alcohol consumption in public areas in the Western Heights and Ngongotaha areas have sparked a lively debate on alcohol laws.
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 | New prison a lucky break
Phil Campbell
Prison life became glaringly modern with the public showing of the $14.5 million row of cells at the southern wing of Rotorua Police Station.
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Hawke's Bay |
| | Napier festival revived
Napier's arts festival could be revived next year, to run over a week or more in the middle of winter.
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| | Hastings sports park gets go ahead
MARTY SHARPE
Future generations will look back and thank the Hastings district councillors who voted in favour of building a $56.8 million sports park, according to mayor Lawrence Yule.
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| | Kiwi creche grads go bush
The first two graduates from Hawke's Bay's new kiwi creche are making a new home in the Kaweka Range.
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Northland |
 | Birds return to Puketi
Pest control at Puketi Forest has been so successful that re-introduction of native birds is now to proceed.
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 | Hall petition hits target
More than 1,700 people have signed a petition calling for the Kerikeri Memorial Hall to be returned to community ownership.
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| | Transition town gets moving
The Bay of Islands transition towns initiative got off to a roaring start last week with about 110 people packing the Wharepuke hall.
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| | This is the BBC, Kerikeri
Robin Colquhoun of Rangitane is running BBC radio on 107.3fm in Kerikeri, as a service to the community.
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Entertainment |
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| | Filmmaker throws big fat jinx aside
By ALISTAIR BULL
After a nine-year hiatus in which one project fell over due to a big fat Hollywood success, Auckland filmmaker Athina Tsoulis has finished her second feature, Jinx Sister.
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Motoring |
| | Special mufflers to flout car rules
By IAN STEWARD
Boy racers trying to circumvent new noisy-car laws with adjustable exhaust systems for passing warrant-of-fitness checks will still be ticketed if they are too noisy, police warn.
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| | Swedes try drive-in weddings
The Church of Sweden will carry out drive-in weddings lasting about seven minutes at a car rally next month in a bid to make marriage more accessible.
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Travel |
| | Author picks coolest hotel rooms to stay
From rooms decked out with a soundstage to concierges who can arrange impromptu tango lessons, trend spotter and author Bill Tikos has roamed the globe to find hotels that offer a unique, and luxurious, experience.
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 | 48 hours in Wellington
Got 48 hours to explore Wellington? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors get the most from a short stay in the perfectly formed capital of New Zealand.
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| | To buy or not to buy?
By JANE E FRASER
Buying would be so much cheaper than renting a car: such was our response to the question of how to navigate North America on an extended trip.
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| | Travel up despite fare rises
By ROELAND van den BERGH
Air New Zealand will increase its fares for a third time since March due to sustained record fuel costs, but holiday makers appear to be taking little notice.
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