Scottish woman admits faking pregnancy and baby in elaborate doll hoax
Kira Cousins shared this photo of her “daughter” to Facebook. Photo / Kira Cousins Neave McRobert, a friend…
Former Fiji rugby captain, Super Rugby and Northland NPC player Joeli Veitayaki dies unexpectedly
Tony Monaghan (left) and Joeli Veitayaki show their delight at Northland winning the Second Division final in Whangārei…
Pahīatua homicide: Search and rescue teams scour lake shorelines in hunt for Jeremy Robertson
The officer in charge of the case advised this morning that search and rescue teams have now gone…
Health NZ warns of rising measles risk after new cases in Manawatū and Nelson
National Public Health Service (NPHS) public health medicine specialist Dr Sharon Sime said there is the potential for…
Conservationist and chimp expert Dr Jane Goodall died of cardiac arrest, reports show
Dr Jane Goodall was an English ethologist and one of the world’s foremost experts on chimpanzees. Photo /…
US President jabs at Australia’s former PM and ambassador at White House meeting
Rudd began to explain: “That was before I took this position, Mr President”. Trump cut him off, saying:…
Protesters plan beach fires nationwide over Marine and Coastal Area Bill
“History shows it’s never good when they start burning books and this sounds unenlightened and anti-intellectual. What we…
Local elections 2025: Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell focuses on unity, debt and museum for second term
She wanted to be an “inclusive leader” and setting priorities as a new council would be an important…
How one Amazon glitch brought huge parts of the internet to a halt – including TVNZ+ and Neon
Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the outage was due to underlying issue with the aDomain Name System (DNS)…
Accidental drowning: Coroner ‘troubled’ that bystanders didn’t pull 4-yr-old Nia Lohchab from Tauranga Memorial Park fountain and try to revive her
Bates reinforced water safety messaging ahead of summer, saying a child can “slip below the surface in a…
Amazon, Snapchat and Ring ‘recovering’ after AWS went down — follow latest
People are being warned to be wary of potential scams as hackers could be exploiting vulnerabilities caused by…
Moeaia Tuai slavery and rape trial begins in Auckland High Court
While Tuai did help both of the siblings get jobs, it wasn’t what they were expecting, he said.…