Family First NZ is welcoming the demise of ZOO magazine and gives some of the credit to groups in both Australia and here in NZ who spoke up and highlighted the misogynistic and harmful messages which were being normalised in the publication and other similar ...
Victoria University of Wellington is helping to address the serious problem of bullying in New Zealand schools. Accent Learning, a subsidiary of Victoria, is aiming to increase the number of New Zealand schools utilising KiVa—an anti-bullying programme from ...
Sept. 18 (BusinessDesk) - The New Zealand dollar spiked to a two-and-a-half week high after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, citing turmoil in global financial markets as threatening the world's biggest economy, and lowering the track ...
The Mojo Pulse will open their 2016 ANZ Championship campaign with a home game against the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic at TSB Bank Arena on Monday 4th April. Four of their home fixtures will take place at the Wellington venue, with the remaining two to ...
2015 APRA Silver Scroll Awards – the winners Brothers Ruban Nielson and Kody Nielson have won the 2015 APRA Silver Scroll Award for the Unknown Mortal Orchestra song Multi-Love . Between the two of them, the gifted brothers have been finalists five ...
A big season awaits Wellington NZV8 Touring Car driver Brock Cooley and the Brock Cooley Motorsport Team as they prepare for first round of the new motor racing season at Taupo over the weekend of 17/18 October.
Jumpers from across the South Island are Mosgiel-bound this weekend for the long-awaited start of the southern Equestrian Sports New Zealand (ESNZ) Jumping and Show Hunter Season. Hosted by the Otago Area ESNZ at the Otago Taieri A&P Showgrounds at Mosgiel, ...
Greenpeace Australia Pacific has called for a region-wide ban on the transshipment of fish catches following Nauru’s announcement today that it would no longer allow the practice in its waters.
The owners of a web organization NewZealandCasinoGuide.Com and their team have decided to take the ecology initiative by participation in biodiversity preservation project and contribute into the protection, maintaining and restoring of the natural beauty ...
New Zealanders have high awareness that more needs to be done to get equality for women, research released by the National Council of Women of New Zealand says.
The government was quick to host the announcement of the All Blacks World Cup team, but they don’t care that many New Zealanders will not see the games live and free to air, says New Zealand First.
The current Ture Whenua Māori reform will give Māori land owners greater rangatiratanga (authority) over their own land.
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship 2016 is award-winning Otago poet Michael Harlow.
At about 6am this morning a car crashed into a power pole on Riverside Drive , Whangarei (outside the Whangarei Cruising Club).
Coromandel residents and boaties are being urged to remain vigilant and avoid the coast this morning in the wake of yesterday’s Chilean earthquake.
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Sept. 18 (BusinessDesk) - US equities and Treasuries rose, while the greenback fell, after the US Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged while flagging a potential hike as early as next month.
Last week, I took a look at some new research from the Netherlands that estimated the benefits of public transport for car travel times based on data from 13 “natural experiments” – public transport strikes. The Dutch researchers found that PT provided significant congestion reduction benefits – around €95 million per annum, equal to 47% [...]
The Herald reports: Damian Wereta might be locked up for the next 17 years, but it could have been worse. The Crown wanted preventive detention — an indefinite term of imprisonment — for the 35-year-old Paremoremo inmate who “shanked” two fellow prisoners. But this morning Justice Pamela Andrews declined the application, instead jailing Wereta for […]
Scoop report by Curtis Nixon The City Council has opened consultation about restricted speed zones in a number of Wellington suburbs. But only those living within 150-200 metres of the proposed sites are getting a brochure through the mailbox. Here in Berhampore, many locals I have spoken with support a 30km zone and are disappointed […]
Press Release – Equinox IT Equinox IT has today launched a new company, Wild Strait, to deliver a world-first software performance product, developed in Wellington. Wild Strait, whose name pays tribute to the city and location in which it was created, will deliver the Wild Strait Performance Intelligence product. This new software performance product has […]
Press Release – SPREP The Waigani Convention to ban the export of hazardous or radioactive waste to the Pacific Islands Forum Countries, and prohibit Forum island countries from importing such waste, held its Eighth Conference of the Parties in Samoa today.Waigani Convention on hazardous waste management opens today The Waigani Convention to ban the export […]
Press Release – Fulton Hogan Bus services to eight villages along Verata Road in Tailevu should resume by early next month. At the request of the Fiji Roads Authority, repair works are being undertaken by Fulton Hogan Hiways (FHH) on a 50-meter stretch that suffered an extensive landslip …Slip Affects 8 Villages on Verata Rd […]
Press Release – Department Of Internal Affairs A Christchurch taxi driver has been sentenced to four months home detention and 140 hours Community Work for making a false statement under the Citizenship Act.Media Release 18 September 2015 False statement brings home detention and community work A Christchurch taxi driver has been sentenced to four months […]
Press Release – New Zealand Government Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee and his Australian counterpart the Hon Kevin Andrews MP met in Auckland today for the annual Australia-New Zealand Defence Ministers Meeting.Hon Gerry Brownlee Minister of Defence [NZ] Hon Kevin Andrews Minister for Defence [Australia] 18 September 2015 Media Statement Ministers re-affirm Defence relations Defence Minister […]