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Teen breaks neck at judo tournament
Source: ONE News A Japanese exchange student suffered a life-changing injury in one of the worst accidents seen at a New Zealand judo tournament. Taradale High School student Yuichi Tanimura broke his neck because he didn't turn his head far enough while attacking his opponent at a tournament in Wellington this month. The mistake meant the teen celebrated his 17th birthday in Burwood ...
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Urewera dawn raids IPCA report to be released today
Photo / File The Independent Police Conduct Authority will release its report today into the behaviour of police in the Urewera dawn raids. During the police operation in October 2007, 18 people were arrested in the Bay of Plenty, Auckland and Wellington. The Crown said those arrested were involved in militia-style training camps based in the Urewera National Park. Four of those arrested, ...
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Suspicious fire at Auckland Fuji Film warehouse
Photo / File Emergency services were called to a suspicious fire at the Fuji Film warehouse in Auckland early today. Northern fire communications shift manager Steve Smith said the fire service were called to the blaze on William Pickering Drive in Rosedale, just before 1am. More than 70 firefighters fought the fire. An Albany fire station spokesman said the building's sprinkler system ...
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7-year-old drives drunk grandfather
The man, who now has three drink-driving convictions, will be sentenced in July. Photo / File An Auckland grandfather was two-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit when he let his 7-year-old grandson drive his car - a situation police say is becoming more common. The man, 49, who has interim name suppression, appeared in Auckland District Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to ...
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Live news updates May 22
Oklahoma City firefighters check on the status of Gene Tripp as he sits in his rocking chair where his home once stood after being destroyed by a tornado. Photo / AP Keep up-to-date with today's news at home and abroad with nzherald.co.nz's news blog, which is updated throughout the day. The blog, compiled daily by the Herald's online staff, will include today's essential ...
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US wants to continue information sharing with NZ
The United States wants to continue a criminal data matching scheme for assessing risks of threats that it began with New Zealand in advance of the Rugby World Cup. There was surprisingly little routine information sharing, said Alan Bersin, the Department of Homeland Security's assistance secretary of international affairs. He believed it was from a "misplaced notion of privacy. ""Why wouldn't ...
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Reserve status sought for land on expressway route
video Writer Patricia Grace's application to the Maori Land Court for her Waikanae land to be declared a Maori reservation could delay construction of a section of the Kapiti Expressway. Grace, author of novels including Potiki and Tu, owns 983 square metres of Maori freehold land north of the Waikanae River, where Tuku Rakau village was once located. Last year, she was served with a ...
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Findings of Urewera raids investigation due
The findings of an independent police investigation into dawn raids on an alleged military-style camp in the Urewera Ranges are due to be released. Police swooped in on the small Bay of Plenty community in the early hours of 15 October 2007, with the Crown alleging military-style training camps were being held in the area. The Crown claimed the group was planning to use guerrilla warfare to ...
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Vision of fear for citys heritage
This Character Coalition image claims to shows what Sandringham's Cambourne Rd could look like under the Unitary Plan but the council disputes this. Photo / Supplied Auckland's heritage character is under threat from apartments in half of residential Auckland, says the Character Coalition. The group, comprising 58 heritage and community groups, has commissioned images to ...
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King of legal highs may stage return
Matt Bowen bowed out of the industry in 2011 when the Government moved to ban synthetic cannabis. Photo / Brett Phibbs Legal high pioneer Matt Bowden has hinted he may return to the industry once the Government makes changes to legislation to make it safer. Mr Bowden, who was known as the king of legal highs and introduced party pills to New Zealand, bowed out of the industry in 2011 when the ...
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Keys $1b request claim in doubt
The documents released yesterday reveal how relations between John Palmer and Treasury soured as the company's financial position deteriorated. Photo / Sarah Ivey Newly released papers raise fresh questions over Prime Minister John Key's claim that Solid Energy asked for $1 billion of taxpayers' money to fund its transformation into a massive resources company. Mr Key made the ...
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Stalling on privacy report fuels speculation
Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff. Photo / NZPA The Government has withheld the findings of a review of the state sector's vulnerability to privacy breaches for several months, creating speculation problems have been uncovered. Government Chief Information Officer Colin McDonald announced a review of the security of publicly accessible state sector agency IT systems in October last year in ...
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7-year-old drives drunk granddad
The man, who now has three drink-driving convictions, will be sentenced in July. Photo / File An Auckland grandfather was two-and-a-half times over the legal alcohol limit when he let his 7-year-old grandson drive his car - a situation police say is becoming more common. The man, 49, who has interim name suppression, appeared in Auckland District Court yesterday and pleaded guilty to ...
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Jail union angry at prisoners sentence
Latu Kepu killed a prison guard in 2010 while serving a term for violent assaults. Photo / Christine Cornege A dangerous high-security prisoner who killed a Corrections officer has been sentenced for assaulting two more but will spend no extra time in prison, a penalty the prison guards' union calls disgraceful. Latu Kepu was already serving a jail sentence for the manslaughter of prison ...
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Pair guilty of duping family
Roseanne Randell (left) and Paraone Tamihana were each found guilty of 20 charges of obtaining by deception. Photo / Brett Phibbs A couple have been found guilty of an elaborate scam featuring fake emails from billionaire Graeme Hart, promises of million-dollar returns, trips to Paris and gift-bags of gold. Paraone Tamihana and Roseanne Randell were each found guilty of 20 charges of obtaining ...
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Editorial Crowns aims for science give focus for research
Antarctic research is on the list, as is high technology, particularly in agricultural applications, and natural hazards, notably earthquakes. Photo / Alan Gibson Science has been a black hole for taxpayers' money. Governments of all stripes agree that science is something they should fund without knowing very much about it. They maintain Crown research institutes for the needs of ...
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NZ eyeing new peacekeeping role
New Zealand edged a step closer to committing peacekeepers to a new area of the Middle East should the US Secretary of State strike a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine. Foreign Minister Murray McCully met Secretary of State John Kerry for 45 minutes in their first meeting yesterday. Immediately afterwards Mr Kerry left for his fourth mission to the Middle East since taking over ...
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Aust coughs and Kiwis catch a cold
A softening Australian economy has forced several ASX-listed companies to downgrade their earnings prospects over the past month, and a clutch of NZX-listed companies with exposure across the Tasman are also likely to feel the pinch, analysts said. Early this month, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut its official interest rate by 25 basis points to a historic low of 2.75 per cent - the first ...
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Heavy thunderstorms to deliver soaking
Heavy thunderstorms that caused three waterspouts to form in Manukau Harbour yesterday are expected to bring heavy rain to much of the country until the weekend. A low pressure system would continue to bring heavy rain and thunder to the North Island throughout today and weather would remain unsettled until the weekend, said Met Service meteorologist John Law. "We are still going to find some ...
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Twitter and Kiwi athletes Tweeting unites fans media and players
It's 6.58 on an unremarkable Tuesday night in Mt Wellington, and influential sports jock Andrew Mulligan is about to go live on air. The Crowd Goes Wild host is a mix of nerves and excitement, but it is his cellphone on which he is most focused. He's checking Twitter, the 140-characters-maximum social media network which is both transforming and occasionally disrupting traditional news feeds ...
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Mission Restore faith in transport
The head of Auckland Transport has come out swinging against the public transport system he runs saying trains and buses are late, infrequent and overcrowded. In an opinion piece in the Herald today, Lester Levy says "figuring out what to do has become more important than actually doing something" and as a result, Aucklanders had lost faith there was an alternative to cars. "I have been chairman ...
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Protest against gay hate killing
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan to protest against the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs - the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighbourhood. "We're here! We're queer!" and "Homophobia's got to go!" were among chants as a crowd marked the death of 32-year-old Mark ...
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All Blacks Barbarian and his mates test the waters
A proud fishing and barbarian heritage inspired All Black Owen Franks' full-back tattoo. The Christchurch-based prop was photographed showing his intricate ink during an All Blacks training camp at Mt Maunganui this week. His full-back design features an anchor and two axes set above his family name written in a gothic script. Franks grew up in Motueka, near Nelson, and said his family heritage ...
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Potential conflicts loom on road ahead
Papakura's Selwyn Chapel what would be possible under the new rules. The council says the image fails to meet form and design quality rules. Photo / SuppliedHeightsHeight is at the top of many people's minds with the Unitary Plan. Whether it's walls of apartments on the ridges overlooking Browns Bay or 18-storey high rises in Newmarket, the council is facing a chorus of ...
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Former trade ministers form panel
An impressive line-up of six former trade ministers of the United States formed a panel yesterday at the US NZ Pacific Partnership Forum in Washington. William Brock, Clayton Yeutter, Carla Hills, Mickey Kantor, Charlene Barshefsky, and Susan Schwab lined up together. And another, Robert Zoellick, who is also a former President of the World Bank had star billing in the forum at the morning. ...
Auckland Feature Story
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Auckland's infastructure needs upgrading in the long run.
Auckland may in the next few years be able to upgrade two major pieces of infastructure and reap the economic benefits for the city.
There may, in the near future, be a four-lane road of national significance (RONS) between Auckland and Whangarei, which would make travel between the country’s largest city and Northland much faster and more efficient, while providing significant economic benefits to both regions as well. Read more
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