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Coronet Peak opens weeks early as the South Island fires up its first snow factory
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- Skiers were carving turns at Coronet Peak over the long weekend, weeks ahead of the field’s usual June start, after New Zealand’s South Island switched on its first snow factory and guaranteed an early opening regardless of the weather. The Queenstown ski area, run by NZSki, opened on Friday 29 May, the same day the […]
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Auckland ratepayers face record 7.9 percent rates rise from July as council backs Wayne Brown budget to fund City Rail Link
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- Aucklanders will pay the largest rates rise in the super city’s history from July after the Auckland Council governing body voted 14 to 7 yesterday to pass Mayor Wayne Brown’s 7.9 percent average increase for the 2026 to 2027 year, with almost all of the lift earmarked to run the City Rail Link once it […]
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Christchurch councillor proposes winter ice rink for Cathedral Square as 28.5 million dollar redesign reaches final five
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- A Christchurch city councillor wants the council to install a winter ice skating rink in the middle of Cathedral Square, arguing that new pavers and planter boxes alone will never coax people back into the city’s old civic heart while the earthquake-damaged Christ Church Cathedral remains fenced off as a working construction site. The pitch […]
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Independent review puts irregular police breath tests at 42,678 as NZTA releases full WSP report
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- An independent analysis commissioned by the New Zealand Transport Agency has put the number of “irregular” alcohol breath tests recorded by police at 42,678, around 12,000 more than the figure first reported when the issue surfaced last year. The full report, produced by infrastructure consultancy WSP and released by NZTA to RNZ on Friday, examined […]
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Operation Jasper sees twenty arrested over alleged corruption at Mt Eden and Wiri prisons
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- Twenty people have been arrested and charged following Operation Jasper, a ten-month investigation by the Police National Organised Crime Group into alleged corruption at three of the country’s largest prisons. Police executed twenty-five search warrants across Auckland, Waikato and the Bay of Plenty this week, with the arrests centred on the Mt Eden Corrections Facility […]
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Colossal Biosciences hatches 26 chicks from a transparent artificial egg as Peter Jackson backed moa revival aims for a hatched bird within a decade
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- Colossal Biosciences has announced what it calls a major step toward bringing back the South Island giant moa, telling reporters this week that its researchers have successfully hatched 26 chickens from a transparent artificial egg the company sees as the foundation of any future moa revival. The Texas based biotech firm is partnered with Sir […]
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Sarah Kessans and University of Canterbury team prepare shoebox-sized space lab for Dawn Aerospace test flights after $600,000 Kiwi Space Activator grant
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- A shoebox-sized automated biotech laboratory built at the University of Canterbury is being prepared for a series of test flights aboard Dawn Aerospace’s reusable spaceplane, a step that will put New Zealand scientists at the front of a global push to grow better drug-development protein crystals in microgravity. The platform is led by Associate Professor […]
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Ōtara bikelife and the talent the city is starting to make room for
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- Police seized three dirt bikes in Ōtara and Pakuranga Heights on Wednesday after a group of riders gathered at the intersection of Springs Road and Smales Road. One was tracked from the air, another found behind a tree after a community tip-off, a third taken the next day on Gilbert Road. Senior Sergeant Simon Cornish […]
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Boat erupts in flames and loud explosions on mooring near Beach Haven wharf as sole occupant escapes uninjured in dinghy
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- A boat was destroyed by fire and a series of loud explosions on a mooring near the Beach Haven wharf in Auckland’s Waitematā Harbour in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with the sole person aboard escaping in a small dinghy without injury. Emergency services were called shortly before 1am after the vessel caught alight […]
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Tim Brown and Sean Roach named as victims of Mt Aspiring helicopter crash on guided hunting trip
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- A highly experienced Wānaka pilot and a well-known South Island guide have been named as the two men killed when a chartered helicopter crashed into rugged alpine country in Mt Aspiring National Park on Sunday morning, in an accident that has stunned New Zealand’s close-knit backcountry aviation community. Pilot Tim Brown and guide Sean Roach […]
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Hayden Tasker found guilty of murdering Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming in Nelson New Year attack
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- A High Court jury in Christchurch has found Hayden Tasker guilty of murdering Senior Sergeant Lyn Fleming, the Nelson police officer who was struck and killed by his car while on foot patrol in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2025. The same jury, which deliberated for three-and-a-half hours, also found Tasker guilty of […]
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Auckland Volcanic Field has released around 26,000 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide and 9,000 kilotonnes of sulphur dioxide over 200,000 years, new study finds
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- A new study has produced the first detailed estimate of the volcanic gases vented across Auckland’s history, finding the city’s 53 cone and crater field has released around 26,000 kilotonnes of carbon dioxide, 9,000 kilotonnes of sulphur dioxide, 470 kilotonnes of hydrogen chloride and 2,220 kilotonnes of hydrogen fluoride over its 200,000 year lifetime. The […]
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St Clair shark bell rings four times in two weeks as Dunedin surfers plead with visitors to respect the warning
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- The shark bell at Dunedin’s St Clair Beach has been rung four times in the past fortnight, an unusually busy run for a system that often goes weeks or months without sounding, and locals are pleading with visitors and casual swimmers to actually leave the water when they hear it. The cast iron bell, mounted […]
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Police arrest four and issue 53 infringement notices after 120 riders take over West Auckland streets in Tour De Neighbourhood event
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- Four people were arrested, 53 infringement notices were handed out and a bike was impounded after about 120 riders took over streets across West Auckland on Saturday for a three hour social media organised bike ride. The event, known as Tour De Neighbourhood West Auckland, was advertised online and run by the group Bikelife Collective […]
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More than 90 per cent of Dargaville residents surveyed want to merge with Whangārei rather than join a new Kaipara North Rodney unitary authority
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- The Dargaville Ratepayers and Residents Association says more than nine out of ten people it has surveyed want the Kaipara town to join Whangārei District Council if local government in Northland is reshaped, rejecting a separate proposal that would have folded Dargaville into a new Kaipara North Rodney unitary authority running up the western side […]
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Whirinaki on track to become first New Zealand settlement to fully relocate after years of severe flooding
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- Whirinaki in South Hokianga is on track to become the first entire settlement in New Zealand to pick up and move, with around 260 people and roughly 43 homes preparing for a managed retreat from the flood-prone valley they have lived in for generations. The decision follows another devastating flood on 26 March this year, […]
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High Court spares Tasman dogs Bo and Koda from destruction order after fur seal mauling at Kina Beach
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- Two Tasman dogs at the centre of a long running fur seal mauling case have been saved from a destruction order after the High Court overturned the convictions imposed on their owner, ending a saga that had drawn widespread attention from animal welfare advocates and beachgoers across the top of the South Island. Bo, a […]
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Six pulled from floodwaters on State Highway 6 at Canvastown as wild South Island storm closes roads and cuts power
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- Six people were rescued from vehicles trapped in floodwaters on State Highway 6 near Canvastown on Friday night as a powerful storm system swept across the top of the South Island, closing roads, knocking out power to hundreds of properties and pushing rivers and streams over their banks. Police were alerted at about 8.35pm to […]
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Severe rain and 140km gales hammer the upper South Island as Takaka Hill records 275mm overnight
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- MetService orange warnings stretch from Westland to Canterbury and across the Nelson ranges as a deepening low brings 220mm of rain and gusts to 140km/h, with Tākaka Hill already recording 275mm overnight and rivers running at capacity.
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Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS hangs over the western horizon for one week, then vanishes for 170,000 years
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- If you have a clear western sky and an hour to spare after sunset this week, you can look at something no other human being has ever knowingly seen. Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS, a frozen visitor from the deepest edges of the solar system, is making its only appearance over New Zealand for roughly the […]
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Whangārei’s Te Matau a Pohe bridge closes for two days as cracks found inside its giant fishhooks
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- Whangārei’s most photographed piece of infrastructure is about to go quiet for a weekend. Te Matau a Pohe, the only rolling bascule bridge in New Zealand and one of fewer than a dozen of its kind anywhere in the world, will close to all road and boat traffic from 6am on Sunday 10 May until […]
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South Island and lower North hit by hours-long mobile and internet outage as Rural Connectivity Group towers fail
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- A widespread mobile and broadband outage knocked out internet and phone services across the entire South Island, Stewart Island and large parts of the lower North Island on Friday morning, leaving One NZ and 2degrees customers without coverage for hours and forcing the Automobile Association to close every one of its branches in the affected […]
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The quiet unwinding — how New Zealand’s plan to pull police out of mental health call-outs stalled
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- The fourth and final phase of the Mental Health Response Change Programme has been delayed indefinitely. A mental health worker has been assaulted, three emergency calls went unanswered, and the police watchdog has refused to investigate. Eighteen months in, the programme that was meant to free up officers is being held together by a series of pauses no one is willing to call a retreat.
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Christchurch parents take Kmart to the Disputes Tribunal over asbestos play sand as more than 200 schools and centres count the cost
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- A Christchurch couple have taken Kmart to the Disputes Tribunal over sand sold for children to play with that later turned out to contain asbestos, in a case that could shape how big retailers respond when their cheap children’s products go wrong. Elle Chrisp and David Dingwall lodged a complaint with the Ministry of Business, […]
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Ōhura state of emergency lifts a week after floodwaters damaged about 50 homes in the small King Country town
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- The local state of emergency for Ōhura has been lifted, one week after floodwaters tore through the small Ruapehu settlement, damaged around 50 homes and forced residents to wade through chest-high water in the dark to reach higher ground. The Civil Defence response has now formally shifted into a recovery phase, but the work ahead […]
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Landslips and Flooding Force Evacuations North of Auckland on Anzac Day Eve
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- Storms striking the North Island overnight and into Friday morning triggered landslips north of Auckland and in the Coromandel, forced at least 18 households to evacuate, shut major roads, and led to the cancellation of one of Northland\u2019s largest Anzac Day dawn services. The slip that caused the most disruption struck the Waiwera area, near […]
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Tornado Strikes Tauranga as Flooding Forces Emergency Declarations in Whanganui and Ruapehu
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- A violent overnight storm brought a tornado to Tauranga in the early hours of Sunday morning, ripping roofs from homes, uprooting trees, and cutting power to dozens of households, while heavy rain elsewhere in the North Island triggered states of local emergency in two districts. The tornado touched down at approximately 1.27am, tearing through the […]
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What Happens If New Zealand’s Fuel Suppliers Stop Selling to Us?
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- The government says fuel is flowing. But six fundamental questions remain unanswered, from whether our Asian suppliers will start hoarding to what fuel rationing would actually look like in practice.
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New Zealand’s Fuel Stocks Look Safe. The Refineries Supplying Us Tell a Different Story
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- New Zealand's fuel stocks look stable on paper. But the real danger lies upstream, at the Asian refineries that supply us and the crude oil they can no longer easily get through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Cyclone Vaianu Bears Down on North Island as States of Emergency Declared
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- A powerful subtropical system bearing down on New Zealand’s North Island has prompted multiple states of emergency, mass evacuations, and urgent warnings for residents to prepare now rather than wait. Cyclone Vaianu, which has been reclassified from a tropical to a subtropical system but remains an extremely dangerous weather event, is expected to make landfall […]
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