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Media Insider: Former high-flying National Cabinet Minister Steven Joyce in line to become new NZME chair under compromise deal
Former National Party Cabinet minister Steven Joyce is in line to be the new chair of media company NZME under a compromise deal between businessman Jim Grenon, other major shareholders and the ...
Weka hitches a 300km ride to Christchurch
A weka nicknamed Ranger has been returned to the West Coast, after climbing into a ute and hitching a 300km ride to Christchurch. The Department of Conservation says it is a reminder to people to ...
Kākāpō heard booming in Waikato for the first time in more than a century
For the first time in more than a century, kākāpō have been heard booming on the North Island of mainland New Zealand. Iwi ...
TVNZ viewers claim anonymous Destiny Church whistleblower’s face ‘visible’, TVNZ cuts clip out of ‘abundance of caution’
The broadcasting watchdog has confirmed it has received complaints after TVNZ said it cut a story featuring an anonymous Destiny Church whistleblower from the digital version of a 1News bulletin out ...
South Taranaki’s Waitotara Hotel burns down in a dramatic blaze, investigator to return
A fire investigator will return to a South Taranaki hotel that burned down last night in a dramatic blaze. Photos from the scene show orange flames leaping from the two-storey Waitotara Hotel and ...
Mental health shortages: Minister under fire for hiding worker shortage data
NZ Defence helicopters, Trump’s influence on global elections, and Parliament tackles alcohol and mental health. The government is being criticised for hiding and removing key mental health worker ...
Palmerston North Hospital staff call for more security after violent attacks
A Palmerston North Hospital staff member was knocked unconscious on the same night as another nurse was held up at gunpoint ...
Wellington councillor Ray Chung criticised for missing meeting for ‘fancy lunch’ with donors
Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung has come under fire after he skipped out on a “pivotal” council meeting to dine with ...
Destiny Church to move out of South Auckland headquarters by end of 2025
Destiny Church confirms it is moving out of the three-hectare South Auckland premises by the end of the year. The Church first moved into the Druces Rd property in Wiri in 2014. It was built with the ...
Prisoner Elijah Daveron used smuggled phones to import 50kg of drugs while in jail
A jailed gang member managed to import $15m worth of drugs into New Zealand from all over the world using cellphones that ...
Waikato Hospital NICU babies treated for Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
Babies in Waikato Hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit have been testing positive for the “highly adaptable” bacteria ...
Drones disrupt Auckland Airport arrivals, flights suspended twice in three hours
Auckland Airport arrivals have been temporarily suspended twice after two separate reports of drones straying into the airport’s controlled airspace. A spokesperson for Airways, New Zealand’s air ...