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At around 8am this morning a woman was indecently assaulted by a man outside the Flaxmere Primary School.

Police are in attendance at a fatal crash on Milton Highway in Clutha that occurred at approximately 9:20am.

The Green Party is calling on the Government to end bottom trawling, dredging, purse seining and other destructive fishing methods in Tikapa Moana/the Hauraki Gulf, which damage the ecosystem and put livelihoods at risk.

The Autistic Collective wholly supports the recent decision of the government to ban the practise of seclusion in schools. We also agree with statements made by Altogether Autism and the Human Rights Commission on the practise.

The public rightly puts much of the blame for the housing bubble at the feet of foreign speculators, and the next Prime Minister must listen to their concerns, says Labour’s Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford.

The New Zealand Government's proposal to take away legal responsibility for water fluoridation from local councils and give it to the District Health Boards could prove to be an exercise in futility.

The House of Representatives sat through extended sitting hours this morning to pass the Rangitāne o Manawatū Claims Settlement Bill through its third and final reading.

NZ’s home of live comedy, The Classic continues its 20th Anniversary Year celebrations with the launch of Ha! This brand new mini Mid-Summer Comedy Fest runs from Fri 27 Jan to Mon 6 Feb 2017 , book ended by the two long weekends. Ha! offers audiences ...

There will be mixed feelings throughout the country about Key’s resignation says Peter Malcolm spokesperson for Income Equality Aotearoa New Zealand Inc. -- Closing the Gap

The NZ College of Midwives has today received the very sad news that our beloved Kaumatua, Mina Timutimu has passed away after a short illness.

My friend's mum died this week. Since he told me, I've had the strongest memory of walking into her house a few years back and being hit with the smell of soup on the stove top. That smell that only comes from food being cooked slowly over a number of hours. The combination of meat and vegetables and seasoning that permeates the entire house as it cooks.
I don't know why that's my first and strongest memory when I think of her. Or why that memory hit me as hard as it did. There were plenty... Читать дальше...

The sentencing of the Ministry of Social Development for not protecting staff in Ashburton from violent clients will bring much-needed closure for the families of the women who died, the PSA says.

Rob Hosking writes: Mr Key has already been an exceptionally successful leader for the National Party, and his unexpected decision to stand down after 10 years cements his place in history not just as a successful winner of a record number of elections but also turns the focus on what he has actually done. For all the […]