On The Up: Bay of Plenty cruise season to kick off with Celebrity Edge visit
Tourism Bay of Plenty general manager Oscar Nathan said there were 82 cruise ships booked to visit before…
Local elections 2025: Biggest wins and closest calls as special votes loom
Adams, who is now heading into his third term leading the Hauraki District, received 4694 votes, while second-placed…
PPTA confirms nationwide teacher strikes as pay dispute escalates
The union’s national executive met last night to consider results from the vote, but 10 minutes before the…
Promoters of cancelled Juicy Festival and Timeless Summer Tour owe creditors more than $14 million
The liquidators’ recently released six-monthly reports into the two companies show Juicy New Zealand owes more than $8.8m…
Hundreds ordered to resit driving tests after Auckland VTNZ officers allegedly took money to pass applicants
There are now concerns that some drivers given pass marks may not have met the required threshold during…
Wellington trial: Teacher accused of sexually violating boy half her age
Sometimes at weekends, he said he’d stay overnight and she’d move the children into the spare bedroom. The…
Police get ‘positive information’ on man found dead in Christchurch’s Heathcote Valley
Police staff search Duncan Park in Heathcote Valley on September 22. It said the investigation had been examining…
Meghan Markle returns to Europe for Paris Fashion Week appearance
“Over the years, the Duchess has worn a number of designs by Pierpaolo. They have worked closely together,…
Bowel cancer screening age to be lowered to 58, home tests to be made available
The move would enable 122,000 extra Kiwis to become eligible for the screening in the first year, the…
Music mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to over four years in prison
Combs was acquitted by a jury in July of the most serious charges against him – sex trafficking…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs asks judge for ‘mercy’ ahead of sentencing
The once-powerful hip-hop innovator apologised for physically assaulting Casandra Ventura, his former girlfriend for more than a decade,…
ASB, Westpac cut fixed mortgage rate to 4.49%, latest banks to drop after ANZ, BNZ ahead of OCR
The move sees the bank’s fixed one-year rate drop by 26 basis points (bps). Westpac’s fixed six-month rate…