A Manawatū District Council committee has narrowly backed designating about 10 of the town’s busiest streets as places where quake-prone buildings would face a tighter upgrade deadline... Read more
We love our big things in Australia. From The Big Strawberry at Koonoomoo, to Coffs Harbour’s Big Banana and The Big Pineapple on the Sunshine Coast, the east coast has plenty to keep road t... Read more
Members of the Resident Doctors Association are into their second day of a five-day strike over their expired employment agreement. In Parliament today, Health Minister David Clark was asked... Read more
Prince William has met some of the first responders to last month’s mosque attacks, during a brief, high-security visit to Christchurch’s Justice Precinct this afternoon. St John... Read more
Tony Ngo is a member of a family-run business that has courted controversy with its baking of rainbow-coloured hot cross buns. “We got invited to the Easter Show this year and we thoug... Read more
Hidden away from the streets of Wellington, surrounded by 100-year-old houses, is a medieval fighting pit where a handful of armour-clad warriors clash twice a week. This backyard in Newtown... Read more
Concerns about the store’s war memorabilia have been raised following the attacks last month. But Barry White, who owns Trash Converters in the small town of Palmerston, said he sells... Read more
The suspension – of World Motors in Glenfield and its vehicle inspector Sun-Jin Kim – affects 1500 vehicles, with their owners being asked to get a recheck. The Transport Agency... Read more
At the same time, there has been a battle between pluralist Muslims, and those who would see the state as an enforcer of a puritanical and often intolerant religious piety. Indonesia is the... Read more
Four-year-old Jeanette Queensell-Logan was born with a heart condition, but it was a series of failures by doctors for nearly two years that resulted in her having a heart attack and subsequ... Read more
