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Defence Force firefighters could crew fire trucks at 20 stations if New Zealand firefighters strike on 27 November
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- Fire and Emergency New Zealand has asked the New Zealand Defence Force to help crew fire trucks if professional firefighters walk off the job for 10 hours at a time from 27 November, RNZ reported on Friday morning. Contingency plans seen by RNZ would put trained Defence Force firefighters on Fire and Emergency trucks at […]
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Two charged with perverting the course of justice in Baby Ru homicide investigation
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- Two people have now been charged with perverting the course of justice in the long-running homicide investigation into the death of Baby Ru, the Lower Hutt toddler who died in October 2023 just before his second birthday. A 33-year-old man appeared in the Hutt Valley District Court on Tuesday, and police confirmed later the same […]
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Thunderstorm watches for Auckland and Northland as heavy rain spreads across the North Island
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- Severe thunderstorms and heavy downpours could hit much of the upper North Island today, with MetService keeping thunderstorm watches over Northland, Auckland, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula and heavy rain watches stretching all the way south to the central plateau. The forecaster says the warm, humid spell that has delivered storm after storm […]
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Three people die as car crashes into BurgerFuel restaurant in Takanini, South Auckland
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- Three people have died after a car left Great South Road in Takanini, South Auckland, and smashed into a BurgerFuel restaurant late on Sunday night. Police said emergency services were called to Great South Road at 10.15pm on Sunday 8 November after a vehicle left the road and struck a building. In a statement released […]
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Four teens found guilty of manslaughter, not murder, over Auckland bus stop killing of American PhD student Kyle Whorrall
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- Four teenagers have been found guilty of the manslaughter of Kyle Whorrall, the 33-year-old American PhD student who was struck with a machete during a robbery at an Auckland bus stop last year. A jury in the High Court at Auckland returned its verdicts on Thursday after a trial of about three weeks. It found […]
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Disputes Tribunal’s release of address was significant factor in Ellerslie double murder, New Zealand police review finds
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- A police review has found the Disputes Tribunal’s release of a murder victim’s home address, against his wishes, was a significant factor in the planning that led to him and his wife being killed in Auckland in 2023. The same review says police could have possibly prevented the deaths if they had followed up a […]
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New Zealand police arrest 39 and seize 67 guns and nearly 1500 3D-printed firearm parts in a week-long trans-Tasman crackdown
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- New Zealand police arrested 39 people and seized 67 illegal firearms during a week-long crackdown run alongside Australian agencies, with a partly built pipe bomb in Hastings and a stolen shotgun on the back seat of a car near Wellsford among the finds. The joint effort, named Operation Athena, ran from 19 to 25 October […]
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Police chase new information in the 2005 killing of Auckland mother Katrina Jefferies as a report reveals a murder charge was recommended in 2015
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- Police are working on new information in the 2005 killing of Auckland mother Katrina Jefferies, as a police review reveals a murder charge was recommended in 2015 but the Crown found the evidence insufficient.
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Labour Day storm sweeps New Zealand with a 200km/h gust at Mount Hutt, 20 Wellington flights cancelled and homes evacuated as fires burn in Otago, Southland and Waiouru
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- A fast-moving front turned Labour Day into a day of gales, grounded helicopters and scrub fires across New Zealand on Monday. Homes were evacuated in Central Otago, at least 20 flights were cancelled or diverted at Wellington Airport, and MetService recorded a gust of about 200km/h at Mount Hutt in Canterbury. The change came at […]
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Fire and Emergency New Zealand chief Kerry Gregory resigns five weeks after the minister said she had lost confidence in him
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- Fire and Emergency New Zealand chief executive Kerry Gregory has resigned with immediate effect, five weeks after Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden said she had lost confidence in him over a levy matter now with the Serious Fraud Office.
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Labour Weekend opens hot across New Zealand with 28C in Christchurch before a cold front brings heavy rain and gales to the South Island on Monday
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- New Zealand heads into Labour Weekend under a slow-moving high that will push eastern temperatures to 28C before a cold front sweeps up the South Island on Monday with heavy rain and northwest gales. MetService meteorologist Dom Barry has called the Labour Day front “a bit of a spring doozy”, and the forecaster says heavy […]
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Firefighters pull a base jumper through a window 23 floors up Auckland’s Hotel Indigo in New Zealand’s second city-centre leap this month
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- A base jumper spent part of Tuesday night clinging to the outside of a central Auckland hotel tower, roughly 23 floors above Albert Street, before firefighters cut away the windows beside him and hauled him inside. He walked away with minor injuries and was handed to police. It is the second base jump off an […]
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Buller under orange rain warning and Wellington braces for 100 km/h gusts as a cold front ends New Zealand’s warm spell
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- New Zealand’s brief taste of summer is over. A slow-moving front has stalled over the South Island, putting Buller under an orange heavy rain warning, lining up severe gales for Wellington and the Marlborough Sounds overnight, and setting up a cold southerly change that could bring snow to higher roads in both islands by Friday. […]
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Half of New Zealand farms lose mobile coverage across most of their land after 3G shutdown
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- A Federated Farmers survey of nearly 650 farmers finds patchy 4G coverage since the 3G switch-off, with many unable to reliably call 111.
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GeoNet quake and tsunami monitoring centre closes for eight hours due to staff shortages
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- New Zealand’s round-the-clock earthquake and tsunami monitoring centre was shut for a full shift on Friday because there were not enough staff to run it safely, a closure the NZ Herald understands has never happened before. The National Geohazards Monitoring Centre, which sits behind the GeoNet service most New Zealanders check after a quake, normally […]
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Copper thieves strip 12 Canterbury farm irrigators and cut a Christchurch EV charger cable
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- Copper thieves have stripped cabling from 12 farm irrigators across North Canterbury, Canterbury police say, with reported losses already above $130,000. In Christchurch, a man was filmed cutting the cable from an electric vehicle fast charger at a Redcliffs service station overnight on Tuesday. The irrigator thefts have hit farms at Swannanoa, West Eyreton, Fernside, […]
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David Tamihere will not face a retrial over the 1989 Swedish backpacker murders and now seeks compensation
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- David Tamihere will not stand trial again over the 1989 deaths of Swedish backpackers Heidi Paakkonen and Urban Höglin, and the man who spent 20 years in prison for their murders now wants what he calls a “quite huge” compensation payout. Crown prosecutor Claire Patterson told the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday 7 October […]
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Walter Peak fire near Queenstown still out of control as winds pick up
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- A large vegetation fire on the southern shores of Lake Wakatipu, across the water from central Queenstown, was still burning out of control on Wednesday morning after spreading rapidly through steep country around Walter Peak Station on Tuesday. Fire and Emergency New Zealand said the fire was neither contained nor controlled when crews stood down […]
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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake near New Plymouth is the area’s largest shallow quake in more than 80 years
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- A strong magnitude 5.3 quake east of New Plymouth woke Taranaki at 2.57am Saturday, with more than 7,300 felt reports and no link to the volcano.
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Queenstown helicopter company loses two $1 million helicopters over illegal crayfish dinners for Rees Hotel guests
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- A Queenstown helicopter company has been fined $12,000 and ordered to hand two helicopters worth more than $1 million each to the Crown, after flying luxury hotel guests into Fiordland to watch a diver pull up crayfish that were later served to them at dinner. The Helicopter Line Limited was sentenced in the Queenstown District […]
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Four sailors rescued from a life raft after their yacht hits a whale and sinks north of Norfolk Island
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- Four sailors are safe on board a cargo ship after hours in a life raft in the open Pacific, when their Australian yacht struck a whale and sank about 250 nautical miles north of Norfolk Island on Saturday. The rescue was coordinated from Lower Hutt by Maritime New Zealand’s Rescue Coordination Centre, which said the […]
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Police refused 13 watchdog calls to charge their own staff in New Zealand as a new inspector-general is proposed
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- New Zealand Police declined to charge their own staff 13 times in the past three years after the Independent Police Conduct Authority recommended charges be laid, according to Ministry of Justice analysis released on Thursday and reported by RNZ. The figures come from the advice behind a new law that would scrap the Independent Police […]
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Orange warnings for snow, gales and heavy rain as a fast cold front hits New Zealand on daylight saving Sunday
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- MetService has orange warnings for Canterbury snow, 120 km/h gales in Wellington, Wairarapa and southern Hawke's Bay, and heavy rain in the Tararua Range on Sunday.
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Christchurch council gives Orana Wildlife Park $1.2 million lifeline as zoo turns 50
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- Christchurch ratepayers will put up to $1.2 million into Orana Wildlife Park, after city councillors voted on Wednesday to throw the struggling zoo a lifeline just two days before it celebrates its 50th birthday. The Christchurch City Council’s finance and performance committee voted 13 to 3 to follow the staff recommendation and pay $1.2 million […]
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Fireball lights up the sky over Mount Taranaki and probably falls into the sea off Marakopa
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- A major fireball crossed Taranaki just before 11pm on Wednesday and probably fell into the sea west of Marakopa, but fragments may have reached land.
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New Zealand cold snap sends North Island below zero as spring equinox frost bites
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- Late-season frosts sent much of the North Island below zero on Thursday morning, a day after the spring equinox, with Taumarunui forecast to hit -4C and Auckland just 4C.
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Customs seizes almost 40,000 meth pipes and bongs in seven months, more than all of 2025
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- Customs seized 39,196 meth pipes and bongs at the New Zealand border from January to July 2026, more than all of 2025 and 25 times the 2024 total.
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Police issue 918 stalking notices and lay 140 charges in the first three months of New Zealand’s stalking law
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- New Zealand Police issued 918 stalking and harassment notices and laid 140 charges in the first three months of the country’s new stalking law, according to figures released by police on Friday 18 September. The numbers run from 26 May, when stalking became a stand-alone criminal offence, to 31 August. That works out to roughly […]
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Police used AI on a Facebook photo and turned a $4,299 Fender into a $600 Squier
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- Police in Auckland have admitted that a staff member used artificial intelligence to alter a photograph before it went on an official police Facebook page, and that the edit changed what the object in the picture appeared to be. The photograph was posted on Wednesday to the North Shore, Rodney and West Auckland Police page. […]
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MPs recommend review of Fire and Emergency board as 30 new fire trucks sit unused
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- A select committee report tells the Government to review Fire and Emergency's board and whether it should buy its own fire trucks.
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