McVicar said SST was renewing its call for publicly available sex offender register so that the eyes and ears of every member of the public could be utilised in supporting the police and knowing the whereabouts of these despicable creatures to ensure they ...
Promoting art and pride in our history and culture is positive for the future of Papakura
The ASKO Endurance Series invades Christchurch’s Mike Pero Motorsport Park at Ruapuna this Saturday with the top teams, drivers and cars in NZ Endurance racing ready to battle it out in the annual SIERDC 3 hour endurance race. The ASKO Appliances catch ...
Alternative Bindings is excited to announce the 2016 “The Wallace Arts Trust Prize” short fiction contest
EDS welcomes the passing in Parliament on Thursday of the Environmental Reporting Act 2015. National environmental reporting will now be mandatory in New Zealand, catching us up to the rest of the OECD.
New Zealand Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) are attempting to gag any discussion and debate about the 2014 Gaza War. They hope to pressure Victoria University into preventing two Israeli students from giving a public address on campus about their ...
SEPTEMBER 28, 2015: New Zealand is back where it belongs, among the world's motocross elite.
Ailsa Lipscombe (23) is in pain every day, but that hasn’t stopped her singing her way to America and supporting others with disabilities.
This afternoon Christchurch detectives arrested a male youth in connection with the writing and sending of threatening letters to families living in Mount Pleasant in June this year.
The Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to Hatepe Hill on SH1, south of Taupo, at approximately 6 pm this evening to attend a multiple vehicle accident.
Today’s decision by the Democratic Voice of Island Bay community group not to pursue legal action against Wellington City Council’s proposal to build a cycle way in Island Bay comes after the desire to use the resources to build bridges within the ...
The inaugural Kids for Kiwi event in Wellington takes place this school holidays at Southern Cross on Abel Smith St.
As academics, researchers and educators associated with Victoria University, we are dismayed to learn that the Student Union Building will play host next week to soldiers from the Israeli Defense Force, touring Aotearoa/New Zealand as part of a nation-wide ...
Research from Victoria University of Wellington has revealed that birds may possess a ‘general intelligence’ similar to humans, with some individuals able to excel in multiple cognitive tests.
Visiting American researcher Dr Seth Shostak says humans will find extraterrestrial life in the next 24 years, or he’ll buy you a cup of coffee. That’s the premise of a free public lecture Dr Shostak will make at the University of Canterbury on ...
Not-for-profit organisations working directly with refugees and recent migrants can apply for Settling In funding from today, Ethnic Communities Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga has announced.
The search is underway to find some of the country’s highest achieving Pacific young people.
Steffi Whittaker has stamped an early mark on the 2015/2016 season capturing the Country TV Pony Grand Prix/Telford Junior Rider double at the South Canterbury North Otago ESNZ Spring Has Sprung Show in Waimate today.
Police are happy with the overall behaviour of those attending the annual Alexandra Blossom Festival, with the focus on maintaining a highly visible but low key approach, with assistance from the Invercargill based Maori Wardens.
The Waikato Westpac Rescue Helicopter was dispatched to Piropiro Flats Campground, South of Benneydale, this afternoon to transport a 37 year old Hamilton man.
When Counties Manukau needed a little inspiration to defend their NZRL National Women’s crown, they found it in veteran international Laura Mariu.
The Taupo Based Greenlea Rescue helicopter was dispatched to broadlands, north of Taupo yesterday evening.
Stuff reports: Two murderers face becoming New Zealand’s first criminals jailed for the rest of their lives after an historic appeal of the three strikes law. The lawyers of Shane Pierre Harrison and Justin Vance Turner had successfully argued such a tough sentence was unfair in the men’s cases, even though criminals with first strike […]
At about 11.50am on Sunday 27th September 2015, Police received reports of an aggravated robbery in Mana, Wellington.
Following the crash early this morning of a milk tanker on State Highway 1 near Puhoi, the road will remain closed until further notice. Milk fat which spilled onto the road when the truck overturned has solidified and formed a slippery surface, which ...