Bay of Plenty butchers win top honours at 2025 sausage competition
Regional butchers also made their mark: FreshChoice Ōmokoroa: Silver for Moroccan Lamb;New World Te Puke: Silver for Premium…
Horse racing: Cox Plate drama as New Zealand-bred galloper could be forced from iconic race
“Racing Victoria contacted [Michael Kent] Junior late yesterday [Monday] and said on half of the test, the horse…
Twist after Nicole Kidman ‘blindsided’ by Keith Urban split
Ultimately, Kidman was the one who filed for divorce, citing “irreconcilable differences”, but according to the insider, she…
One person dies after boating incident off Napier coast
“Tragically, the second person was located unresponsive in the water a short time later and was unable to…
Large 30-hectare fire on hills near Pōrangahau in Central Hawke’s Bay
It is the biggest of five vegetation fires currently burning in the Hawke’s Bay area, caused by strong…
Channel 4 deploys AI host for Dispatches current affairs series as stunt to raise questions
“But this stunt does serve as a useful reminder of just how disruptive AI has the potential to…
Treasury advised Nicola Willis to remove the Reserve Bank Governor from the board to improve accountability
“A governor who was ‘mere’ CEO would be exceptional, and internationally this could be seen as a diminished…
Labour MP Duncan Webb to resign as MP, won’t seek re-election
Webb said he would then “see what’s out there”, saying he believed he had “another exciting career in…
‘It’s never too late to do the right thing’: Police appeal for truth, two years on from Baby Ru killing
Police are urging those responsible for Baby Ru’s death to come forward and “do the right thing”. Photo…
Job seekers face new weekly reporting and training rules from today
Upston said reporting job search activities would increase accountability for beneficiaries who are meant to be looking for…
Travel discounts: Qatar Airways flights, Yasawa Island Resort Fiji, Phantom of the Opera Sydney, Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, and Tasmania tours
With only 18 Beachfront Bures scattered among swaying palms, Yasawa Island Resort and Spa offers a rare kind…
How one Amazon glitch brought huge parts of the internet to a halt – including TVNZ+ and Neon
Amazon Web Services said the outage was due to an “underlying DNS issue”, referring to the Domain Name…