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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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Police and Defence Force to search Lake Moeraki for plane that vanished in 1978 with seven aboard
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- Police, the Defence Force and Coastguard West Coast will spend three days next week searching for a light plane that disappeared in December 1978 with seven people on board, one of the longest-running aviation mysteries in New Zealand. The operation will run from Monday 21 September to Wednesday 23 September and will be based at […]
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Tom Phillips inquiry finds agencies could have brought the children home sooner
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- The public inquiry into the disappearance of the Phillips children makes 41 findings and nine recommendations, and police are disputing that any of it would have changed the ending.
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Māngere Budgeting Services Trust ran New Zealand’s first Bring Your Bills day in Ōtāhuhu
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- Banks, power and phone companies in one South Auckland hall for New Zealand’s first Bring Your Bills event.
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Victoria Bouvet planted her late mother’s roses in a Christchurch rental and won her $2,400 bond back
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- A prize-winning gardener, her late mother’s roses, a flooded backyard and a Tenancy Tribunal decision that returned every dollar of her bond.
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Che Bartle swept tow truck floors in Rotorua at 10 and now runs ACE Heavy Haulage
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- From sweeping floors at Rotorua Towing at 10 to running ACE Heavy Haulage, the story of a life in heavy recovery.
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Todd Maitland, the Waihī concreter who won Apprentice of the Year after Rex Podmore gave him a chance
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- Waihī concreter Todd Maitland won New Zealand’s top concreting apprentice award at 21, four years after an employer gave him a go.
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Orana Wildlife Park needs $4.1 million as cash reserves run low
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- Christchurch's Orana Wildlife Park needs about $4.1 million or its available cash runs out by March 2027, and its own filed accounts show how fast the gap opened.
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Coroner asks for import ban on online diving device after Mana Island drowning
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- Coroner Amelia Steel has recommended the Wolach 919 tankless diving device be banned from importation after a Lower Hutt man drowned using one for the first time off Mana Island.
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Fake QR code stickers turn up on Auckland parking meters as the scam reaches a third city
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- Auckland Transport has pulled scam QR code stickers off city centre parking meters, eight weeks after the same trick appeared in Christchurch and days after Wellington removed about a dozen.
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