Cook keeping fingers crossed over injured Broad Finn comeback ahead of...
England captain Alastair Cook has said that he is keeping his fingers crossed about a comeback of injured seamers Stuart Broad and Steven Finn after New Zealand's five-wicket win in the first one-day...
View ArticleExpectant dad Bresnan to be signaled with rocking baby motion if labour...
England bowler Tim Bresnan has said that his teammates pretending to rock a baby will be the sign that his first child is on the way, as England try to recapture their top one-day form at the second of...
View ArticleCar-mad reputation unfounded report
Aucklanders stuck in traffic on their way back to work today may be surprised to learn their city has one of New Zealand's lowest vehicle ownership rates. A Herald analysis of Transport Agency figures...
View ArticleYachting Team NZ face lonely Cup regatta
Plans for a significantly watered-down Louis Vuitton sailing challenger series are expected to be unveiled in San Francisco today as it becomes increasingly apparent Artemis will not be ready to take...
View ArticleBoy 5 bitten on face by family pit bull
A 5-year-old boy has been hospitalised after being bitten on the face by a pit bull in South Auckland last night. The young child suffered serious injuries when he was bitten at a home on Walters Rd in...
View ArticleWoman dies saving fiance from waves
A seaside holiday turned to tragedy for a New Zealand woman who drowned after saving her fiance when he slipped off rocks at a West Australian beach. Andrea Harris went to help Kegan Myall but as she...
View ArticleChina boosts monitoring of foreign milk formula
China's Government says it will step up monitoring of foreign infant formula products and "nurture" Chinese-made baby milk brands. The announcement, made after a meeting of China's State Council on...
View ArticleTwelve Questions Ans Westra
Ans Westra emigrated from Holland in 1957 and made her name photographing Maori, documentary style, including a controversial school journal essay, Washday at the Pa, in 1964. At 77 she has just...
View ArticleNZ houses 4th most overvalued
Shamubeel Eaqub says the report underlines why he rents. Photo / APN New Zealand has the fourth-most overvalued property prices in the developed world, according to a study by the Organisation for...
View ArticleBad weather heads north
More than 100 motorists got stuck when Burke's Pass near Lake Tekapo had to be closed. Photo / Supplied Parts of the North Island will be bracing for thunderstorms and gales today after snow and...
View ArticlePolice plead with killer to tell where Cissys body is buried
Cissy Chen. Photo / Supplied Seven months after she disappeared, police have renewed calls for Cissy Chen's killer to come forward. "Come forward. Just tell us what you've done to her," urged Detective...
View ArticleMigrant law quashes girls dream
Diana is holding a photo of her soldier grandfather Dougall Drysdale in front of a picture of her father Ross flying a Skyhawk while in the RNZAF. Photo / Courier Mail Auckland-born student Diana...
View ArticleTreaty settlements Tuhoe negotiator finds compromise
Tamati Kruger says he has the recipe for mana motuhake or self-determination. Photo / APN Tamati Kruger reckons he has bought the recipe for mana motuhake or self-determination and it is wrapped up in...
View ArticleTreaty settlements Long and winding road to resolving the past
Lakebeds returned to Te Arawa. Photo / Alan Gibson The Crown is over the half-way hump of settling all Treaty of Waitangi claims and could achieve its aim of having all outstanding grievances sorted...
View ArticleTPK boss confident on te reo targets despite rising odds
The report does not address 128,000 Maori who now call Australia home. Photo / Norrie Montgomery The leader of Maori Development Ministry Te Puni Kokiri says new official government targets, such as...
View ArticleBurnt teenager remains in critical condition
A 17-year-old caught up in a devastating Rotorua factory fire that left a schoolgirl dead and several other young people injured remains in a critical condition in Waikato Hospital with burns to his...
View ArticleWellington party-zone triage centre axed
Source: Fairfax The pin has been pulled on the much-heralded ambulance triage centre in Wellington's party district after a drop in drunks being treated. Wellington Free Ambulance decided the triage...
View ArticleHigh-risk NZ offenders to get Lindsay Lohan treatment
Source: YouTube Hundreds of high-risk offenders could soon be forced to wear alcohol monitoring bracelets. The device, used to keep tabs on offenders banned from drinking, can detect alcohol through...
View ArticleHistoric Dunedin Cook pub faces closure
Dunedin's historic Captain Cook Tavern could close by the middle of this month. James Arnott, one of the owners of Cook Brothers Bars, which sub-leases the building from DB Breweries and owns the...
View ArticleMeat cleavers used in Christchurch robbery
Christchurch police are on the hunt for two men who held up an Aranui takeaway bar with meat cleavers. The pair walked into Gin's Takeaways on Hampshire Street, brandishing the weapons around 8.15pm on...
View Article