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New Zealand skier Hannah Hughes survives a 170 metre avalanche in Norway and says it is a miracle nobody died
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- A New Zealand skier who was swept around 170 metres down a Norwegian mountainside in a wall of snow has spoken about the terrifying moment an avalanche tore through her group, calling the survival of all 13 people on the trip an extraordinary stroke of luck. Hannah Hughes, 34, was on a guided ski and […]
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Heavy rain, gales and snow sweep into the South Island as a powerful winter front moves up the country
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- A powerful winter system is sweeping into the South Island this weekend, with MetService warning of heavy rain, severe gales and falling snow as a vigorous front pushes up the country from Saturday into Sunday. The weather agency says a strong northwest airflow is being followed by the front, which moves onto the south of […]
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Loose fence wire wrapped around the tail rotor brought down a pest control helicopter north of Wellington, a new report finds
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- A single strand of old fence wire, lying low in long grass and almost impossible to see from the air, wrapped around the tail rotor of a pest control helicopter and brought it down in the hills north of Wellington, killing both men on board. That is the finding of a preliminary report from the […]
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Wellington Airport fire leaves travellers stranded after blaze in terminal wall cavity
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- Hundreds of travellers were left stranded at Wellington Airport on Friday night after a fire broke out inside a wall cavity in the main terminal, forcing a full evacuation, holding flights for about four hours and stretching disruption into Saturday. The alarm was raised just after 7pm on Friday 12 June, when smoke was detected […]
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Missing Christchurch woman Valerie Hargrave found alive after neighbours join the search
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- An 81-year-old Christchurch woman who vanished from her Woolston home has been found alive after days of searching that drew in police, trained volunteers and dozens of ordinary neighbours who refused to give up on her. Valerie Hargrave was last confirmed seen on Saturday morning, leaving her home in the St John Street area at […]
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Wellington declares a state of emergency and orders south coast evacuations as 10 metre swells bear down
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- Wellington has declared a local state of emergency and ordered hundreds of people off the capital’s south coast as some of the largest swells in years close in on the lower North Island. Mayor Andrew Little signed the declaration for the city’s Southern and Eastern wards on Monday evening, and a mandatory evacuation took effect […]
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Orange warnings cover Bay of Plenty and Taranaki as storms sweep the North Island
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- Thousands of New Zealanders started the weekend in the dark and the wet as a violent band of storms rolled up the country, knocking out power overnight and leaving the top half of the North Island braced for heavy rain, thunder and the small chance of a tornado. The system first lit up the South […]
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Mother and son sentenced after trying to take 18 kilograms of greenstone out of New Zealand
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- A mother and son who were caught trying to carry almost 18 kilograms of pounamu, the greenstone that Ngāi Tahu regard as a national treasure, through Auckland Airport have appeared for sentencing in the Manukau District Court, closing the first case of its kind New Zealand Customs has ever taken to a conviction. Xin Li […]
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Geothermal bore bursts at a Rotorua marae and shoots a 30 metre column of water and mud into the sky
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- A long abandoned geothermal bore has burst into life at a Rotorua marae this week, throwing a column of water, steam and mud some 30 metres into the sky and coating nearby buildings and cars in a fine white residue. The eruption began about 4.30pm at Tarewa Pounamu Marae on Tarewa Road and was still […]
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Auckland water bills rise 7.2 percent from July as Watercare funds a 13.8 billion dollar upgrade
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- Auckland households will pay more for their water from the start of next month, with Watercare confirming water and wastewater charges will rise by 7.2 percent from 1 July. The increase lands on top of a separate 7.9 percent average rates rise from Auckland Council, leaving many ratepayers facing a double squeeze just as winter […]
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Otago egg farm back to 200,000 birds 18 months after New Zealand’s first bird flu cull
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- The Otago egg farm that sat at the centre of New Zealand’s first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu is back to a full flock, with about 200,000 hens once again living in its sheds roughly 18 months after every bird on the property was put down. Mainland Poultry’s free range farm at Hillgrove, near […]
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Solo Trans-Tasman sailor Graeme Francis survives a night bailing his flooding yacht off the far north
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- A 69-year-old yachtsman is safely back on dry land at Mangōnui after spending about 16 hours alone in a flooding boat, pumping water through the night while big swells battered his vessel off the top of the North Island. Graeme Francis, a New Plymouth Yacht Club member, was competing in the 2026 Solo Trans-Tasman Yacht […]
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Seven dead on New Zealand roads in the worst King’s Birthday weekend toll since 2016
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- Seven people have died on New Zealand roads over King’s Birthday weekend, making it the deadliest holiday period of its kind in a decade and prompting a sombre plea from police for drivers to take care on the journey home. The official holiday count ran from 4pm on Friday and was due to close at […]
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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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