‘It’s the first time, and it’s the last time’: Europe witnesses rare total eclipse of the sun
“It’s the first time and it’s the last time, the only time I’m going to see an eclipse,”…
Hastings council coffers boosted by massive crowds for Illuminate light show
They said the challenge had been to do it without extra cost to ratepayers, and so far “the…
Gisborne dairy robbery: Disguised teens hold up store with a tomahawk
“They came inside about 15-20 minutes later, with masks on and armed with an axe. “I hit my…
‘Exceptionally Large’ fireball lights up Northland night sky
“This fireball is most likely a ‘rock’ left over from the formation of the solar system. It would…
Christopher Luxon made sure New Zealand was still on China’s President Xi Jinping’s ‘radar’
“He knows New Zealand well. He’s visited a few times in the past. We’ve had a very big…
Elon Musk briefly launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
Grokipedia’s entry on gender, for instance, began with the sentence: “Gender refers to the binary classification of humans…
Arrested man briefly escaped after Northland police used his car for transport
The IPCA was satisfied with the outcome of the police investigation, he said. The two Northland officers initially…