Tech CEO Jenene Crossan latest woman to accuse Sir Rod Drury of inappropriate sexualised behaviour
Crossan wrote on Substack that she met Drury at an Auckland cafe in 2016 to “share progress on…
Mattheus Heimer sentenced to nine months supervision for assaulting woman at McDonald’s Queenstown
The incident arose after Heimer entered McDonald’s Queenstown in the town centre at 3am on December 17, 2025.…
Act immigration policy: Erica Stanford says David Seymour hasn’t thought through policy she says will hurt businesses, farmers
She said it “certainly feels like” Act was trying to match the anti-immigration policies of New Zealand First.…
Pink Floyd Experience The Wall+ Hamilton show: How to win double pass
Every song is faithfully recreated to sound just like it does on the album. An album which, incidentally,…
Web over Waikato: Spider expert explains massive spiderweb blankets seen in Huntly
“Thought they’d be interesting because people in the city don’t get them.” Spider ballooning season typically occurs in…
ZM’s Hayley Sproull to host My House My Castle reboot and tour her comedy show around New Zealand
“I’m a professional talker. There’s actually not much I haven’t spoken about yet,” she says. Dating dilemmas, her…
Diesel shortage: Why our ‘benign’ isolation is now a brutal risk – Matthew Hooton
His optimism echoed Hipkins’ assurance as Covid-19 Minister in November 2020 that “when vaccines come to the market,…
Two 16-year-olds arrested after Southland op shop ‘donation’ leads to cannabis, weapon and $4k cash haul
“Nothing unusual there. Donations are often left in that very spot for staff to sort through and tidy…
Northland mum Kari Muller gives birth to 13lb 6oz son Lewis at Whangārei Hospital
“Then we had a scan at 37 weeks which kind of agreed that he was tracking large,” Kari…
Charlotte Grimshaw on the family dynamic that inspired her new novel The Black Monk
As I came up from the Bay, I thought about my novel and suddenly conceived it as my…
Napier man eyes earlier than expected retirement after winning $1m Lotto prize
“Which would have been amazing,” the man said. “When they told me it was $1m, I could not…
Can putting non-teachers into struggling schools fix them?
When Uatesoni Filikitonga first walked into the classroom at Waitaki Boys’ High School, he thought he would be…