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Greens select child abuse campaigner for Ikaroa-Rawhiti
The Green Party has selected former Human Rights Commission adviser Marama Davidson as its candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election. Mother of six Ms Davidson is currently working for the Owen Glenn Inquiry into family violence and child abuse. "I am standing for Ikaroa-Rawhiti to continue my kaupapa Maori passion for social justice and protecting our environment," Ms Davidson said in a ...
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Perilous ridge-top rescue for trapped man
A worker who fell down a Bay of Plenty landslide site had to be rescued from a ridge 50m high above a highway amid atrocious weather conditions last night. The man had been in a two-man team surveying the site of a landslide in the Waioeka Gorge near Sandy Creek yesterday afternoon when he slipped and fell, injuring his shoulder and left unable to walk. Police, fire, ambulance and search and ...
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Three more arrests over soldier hacked to death
Murdered soldier Lee Rigby. Photo/AP Three men have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder the British soldier hacked to death in a London street by two Islamists. Two men aged 24 and 28 were arrested at a residential address in southeast London while a 21-year-old man was arrested in the street around 1.5 kilometres from the murder scene, Scotland Yard police ...
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Four arrests after armed robbery pursuit
Photo/File Four people have been arrested after an armed robbery at a South Auckland pub last night. Police were called to the Whitehouse Tavern in Rosehill after the robbery about 11pm. The offenders fled in a stolen vehicle but were spotted by police staff who were en route to the robbery. Police gave chase but the pursuit was abandoned. The stolen vehicle was found ...
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Kiwi Schmidt leaves Leinster on a high
New Zealander Joe Schmidt ended three successful years with Irish club Leinster on a high by winning the Celtic League final 24-18 over Ulster.The Dublin triumph followed victory in the second-tier European Challenge Cup final two weeks ago for Schmidt, who will leave to take up the reins as Ireland national coach.Schimdt led Leinster to two European Cup titles in his first two seasons in ...
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Four arrested after Auckland pub robbery
Four people have been arrested following the overnight armed robbery of an Auckland pub.The group held up the Whitehouse Tavern in the South Auckland suburb of Rosehill about 11pm on Saturday, police say.Officers en route to the scene saw the four leaving in a stolen vehicle and a pursuit ensued, but it was quickly abandoned.The vehicle was found a short time later and two people were arrested ...
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State schools review religious classes
Source: Photos.com God has been pulled from the classrooms of dozens of state schools in the past two years, as experts call for children to be taught about a wider range of faiths and values. More than 50 state schools have cancelled Bible-based education in school hours since 2011, with a lack of teaching volunteers and decline in parental support cited as the main reasons. Rationalist David ...
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England grateful to Joe Root and Jonnie Bairstow against New Zealand
England's Jonny Bairstow, left, and Joe Root run between the wickets during the second Test match against New Zealand at Headingley. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty ...
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Arrests following armed robbery in Auckland
Source: ONE News Four people have been arested after an armed robbery in south Auckland overnight. Police heading to the scene of the robberyat the Whitehouse Tavern in Rosehill saw four people leaving in a vehicle which they then pursued. The pursuit was abandoned but the stolen vehicle was located soon afterwards and two offenders were taken into custody with the assistance of dog handlers. ...
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Restaurant extinguishers not ready for fire
Photogallery: Fire in Queenstown Restaurant staff were unable to contain a devastating Queenstown fire because extinguishers hadn't been recharged after a fire a few days earlier. Southern region fire safety officer Stuart Ide said Fat Badgers pizza restaurant staff used extinguishers from the restaurant and upstairs bar The World Bar a few days earlier when a fire started in a pizza ...
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Sir Eds diary tells of Mt Everest conquest
Hillary and Tenzing. Photo / The George Lowe Collection On this day 60 years ago, a strapping mountaineer from Auckland wrote in his diary: "George, Greg, Tenzing and I plus eight Sherpas (five to South Col and three Ridge men - Ang Nima, Pemba and Ang Pemba) set off for South Col." The simple entry from Ed Hillary, then 33, was the build-up to the conquering of Everest three days ...
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New waka jumping law proposed
Northcote MP Jonathan Coleman said the proposed law change was 'pretty much common sense'. Photo / NZPA National Party members are pushing for a new "waka-jumping" law to force rogue list MPs out of Parliament. Delegates at the party's northern regional convention yesterday voted to ask the Government for the law. Former NZ First MP Brendan Horan is the only MP who ...
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Meet the kids then into the bush
Kiwi kids got close to their national bird yesterday before the chicks were released as part of a history-making breeding programme. Photo / Supplied Kiwi kids got close to their national bird yesterday before the chicks were released as part of a history-making breeding programme. Fifty years after kiwi were last sighted in Kaipara, five chicks were released on a privately owned 1300ha stretch ...
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Smoking used to reward patients
Patients at Waitemata DHB can smoke outside. Photo / Brett Phibbs Patients in closed mental health wards at Waitemata District Health Board are allowed out for cigarettes as a reward for good behaviour, a patient alleges. A woman who has been a frequent patient at open and closed wards made the claims in a court affidavit submitted to a judicial review in the High Court at Auckland. The review ...
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Scam Watch - May 26
Photo / Thinkstock • The Department of Internal Affairs has only had one new email scam reported this week, from "Peter Stevenson". He writes that he is in Indonesia on business. He tells the recipient to contact his secretary, "Wright. William", and ask for US$920,000 that is being held as recognition for "past efforts". He hints that a previous attempt to ...
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Watson and Hotchin go after $7m
Eric Watson. Photo / NZPA Eric Watson and Mark Hotchin are seeking $7 million plus costs from a man who criticised them after the collapse of Hanover Finance. Bearing the brunt of the multi-million dollar claim is former Shareholders Association boss Bruce Sheppard. The amount is revealed in a statement of claim setting out the businessmen's case against Sheppard in a High ...
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Yachting Rules lift Team NZ
America's Cup challenger Artemis may be at a huge disadvantage, even if they get to the start line of the Louis Vuitton regatta. There are still rumblings in America's Cup circles that Artemis will not compete after the tragic death of Andrew Simpson in that fateful capsize in San Francisco Bay. Some say that team management is keen to continue; the sailing crew less so. Another ...
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Kidnap victim left mutilated
The scene of a serious incident on SH1, north of Tokoroa. Photo / John van de Ven A contractor driving a tractor bravely positioned his machine in the middle of State Highway 1 to protect a critically-injured young woman, left mutilated after being dragged behind a car for a kilometre. The woman, 27, is now on life support in Waikato Hospital with massive injuries to much of her body, ...
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Party host survives gun blasts
Armed police guard a property in Coates Crescent after a shooting yesterday. Photo / Michael Craig A man gunned down in his home was dumped at a hospital as carloads of rowdy partygoers - including his partner - fled the house before police arrived. Heavily armed police were yesterday guarding the abandoned State-owned property in the Auckland suburb of Panmure. One woman ...
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Shock find in killers cell
William Bell. Photo / Brett Phibbs One of New Zealand's most notorious killers, William Bell, has been caught with a prison officer's stab-resistant vest in his maximum security jail cell. Bell is serving an unprecedented 30 years without parole for the 2001 Mt Wellington RSA slayings. Locked up in Paremoremo Prison's most secure wing, Bell was stabbed in the eye by ...
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Mum thanks rescuer in emotional reunion
Latu Paasi wiped away tears as she watched the unveiling of her husband and son's headstone yesterday - the first anniversary of their death in a boating tragedy. Buried together at Onehunga's Waikaraka Cemetery, So'saia Paasi, 45, and his son Tino, 7, drowned nearby after their dinghy capsized during a family outing on the Manukau Harbour. Three other members of the family also on board the ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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Runway lights wrecked
A plane has smashed runway lights during a take-off described as "extremely abnormal" at Auckland International Airport. An investigation has been launched into the Chilean airline LAN flight last Saturday, which later landed in Sydney on damaged tyres. The Transport Accident Investigation Commission confirmed the incident this week, in which the aircraft strayed from the middle of the runway ...
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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