Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant Volunteers
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 12:41 pm Press Release: Waikato District Health Board Thursday 20 June Waikato DHB Celebrates Boom in Immigrant VolunteersAs Waikato DHB celebrates its ...
View ArticleNew Zealand Laboratories Win International Design Awards
Specialist laboratory architects, Lab-works Architecture have been recognised overnight at the S-Lab Conference and Awards in Liverpool, England. With two of their recent science facilities making the...
View ArticleCouncillor recovering after stroke
Rotorua district councillor Maureen Waaka is recovering in Auckland City Hospital after suffering a stroke. Mrs Waaka had a stroke on Sunday, while in Auckland for work commitments. Her husband John...
View ArticleNew Zealand reports tepid growth
(22 mins ago) New Zealand's economic growth slowed to a crawl in the first quarter of 2013 as a major drought hit the farming sector, official data show. Statistics New Zealand said gross domestic...
View ArticleNine hospital telephonists get backpay
Nine Whakatane Hospital telephonists will receive almost four years' backpay after an Employment Relations Authority ruling. The Bay of Plenty District Health Board, which employs the workers, has also...
View ArticleNZ at Noon Help warms victims hearts - and hands
Benjamin Foster, 6, with firewood donated to his family after all their wood was stolen. Photo / Joel Ford Stories making headlines around the regions today include the good Samaritans helping out a...
View ArticleScammer who faked credit applications pleads guilty
Photo / File A scammer who faked credit applications to get aviation gas, rent, TVs, groceries, even a temporary liquor licence, has pleaded guilty today. Ray Vincent Bishop, 24, used his fraudulent...
View ArticleFamily fears for mother missing for 12 days
Fears for missing woman in Northland The family of a Northland mother who has been missing for 12 days have become "increasingly worried", police say. Barbara Ann Moka, 32, was last seen on June 9 at a...
View ArticleLive updates Winter blast
A spokesperson for Queenstown's Winter Festival says the event is due to continue this weekend despite the snow storm forecasted for the region over the next few ...
View ArticleCar drag kidnapper had been smoking drugs continuously
Source: ONE News A Rotorua man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping his partner in an incident which saw her dragged behind a car said he had been smoking drugs continuously since being released from...
View ArticleStrong support at The Roxy for charity
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:10 pm Press Release: The Roxy Cinema Strong support at The Roxy for charityAn enduring partnership between iconic Wellington cinema The Roxy and Ronald McDonald House...
View ArticleColony systems are still cages
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:03 pm Press Release: Green Party 20 June 2013Colony systems are still cages Colony systems are still cages, and describing them as cage-free egg production is misleading, the...
View ArticleGrim But True Reading for NZ in Human Trafficking Report
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:06 pm Press Release: New Zealand First Party Rt Hon Winston PetersNew Zealand First Leader20 June 2013 Grim But True Reading for NZ in Human Trafficking ReportRt Hon Winston...
View ArticleAnimal Limb Find Highlights Biosecurity Weakness
Thursday, 20 June 2013, 1:51 pm Press Release: New Zealand First Party Richard Prosser MPSpokesperson for Biosecurity20 June 2013Animal Limb Find Highlights Biosecurity WeaknessNew Zealand First says...
View ArticleHoyts New Zealand Premieres ‘King of the Railway’
'King of the Railway' There's a surprise in store on the Island of Sodor! Thomas is back with old friends in the next thrilling, feature--length adventure, ...
View ArticleMana Party announces big housing plan
The Mana Party wants to build 10,000 state houses a year. Mana's Ikaroa-Rawhiti candidate Te Hamua Nikora announced the party's housing policy today in Pomare, in the Hutt Valley. He said Mana would...
View ArticleDecision to leap from bank proved fatal - coroner
A man's fatal decision to leap from a bank onto a raft he had been thrown out of on a swollen Bay of Plenty river has been described as "unfortunate" by a coroner. An inquest in Whakatane this morning...
View ArticleAddress to the EMA Central North Island Annual Payroll Conference
I’d like to thank you for inviting me to join you today. As the Member for Rotorua and the Minister of Revenue, it is especially appropriate that my first speech to a conference in my new portfolio is...
View ArticleMan fined for pushing bicycle into path of off-duty cops car
Photo / File A West Coast man who pushed a bicycle into the path of a car, only to find the driver was an off-duty policeman, appeared in court yesterday. Jonty Charles Pickett, 18, was convicted of...
View ArticleMan in court after pregnant woman stabbed today
Photo / File A man will appear in court this afternoon after a 22-year-old pregnant woman was stabbed this morning. The alleged attack happened in Manukau this morning. The woman is understood to be in...
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