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Today Stuff Circuit releases a special project that explores who’s driving a violent, misinformed New Zealand - and why. Fire and Fury began with a day of violence but ended up somewhere much more frightening. The Stuff Circuit team was filming at Wellington’s ...

WCC need to be careful. It is one thing to promote people standing for Council, but the list of issues they chose to highlight is very one sided. Don’t they want candidates who are concerned about affordable rates? infrastructure? congestion? No tag for this post.

The Big Barrel liquor empire – made up of 49 different outlets across much of New Zealand, Christchurch excluded - will not be pursuing its bid to move into the Christchurch area for the time being, they informed the City Council licensing authorities ...

Police, LandSAR teams, Coastguard, Navy and Police dive teams have completed a further full day of searching for a kayaker missing on Lake Rotorua.

Police investigating a hit-and-run in Christchurch are seeking help from the public. Just after 8:20pm yesterday, Friday 12 August, a woman in her 50s was crossing Marshlands Road at the intersection with Voss Street when she was struck by a white van. The ...

Nearly 2,000 professional firefighters and support staff in New Zealand are preparing to hold a one-hour nationwide strike on Friday, August 19. A second one-hour stoppage is scheduled for August 26. The NZ Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) gave notice ...

Today we celebrate the winners of the Recorded Music NZ Te Kaipuoro Tautito Toa | Best Jazz Artist and the APRA Best Jazz Composition, which were announced today live on Radio New Zealand’s Music 101. Aotearoa-born, London-based jazz musician ...

The measles catch-up campaign is just the latest expensive botched health programme under Labour, National’s Health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti says. “The $20 million two year measles catch-up programme was completed last month and the results are ...

Wellington.Scoop Final nominations for the Wellington City Council elections in October were released this afternoon. There are nine candidates competing for the mayoralty: Blake, Ellen (Independent) Chung, Ray (Independent) Dudfield, Chris (Independent – Vision/Skill/Results) Eagle, Paul (Independent) Foster, Andy (Together for Wellington) Hastie, Kelvin (Future Wellington) McDonald, Donald Newtown (Our truth all but whole truth) […]

The Taxpayers’ Union released: Ministers have repeated assurances that councils will continue to own water assets under the proposed ‘Three Waters’. But those claims are utterly false. Public law firm Franks Ogilvie, in an opinion reviewed by Gary Judd QC, lay out the extent to which these claims have been “calculated to deceive Parliamentarians, and […]

Here, without editing or any additional comment is the Facebook post made by Hamilton West Labour MP Dr Gaurav Sharma last night,. which he makes serious allegations against Labour MP’s, the Parliamentary Service and the Prime Minister’s Office: Over the last 24hours many of you would have read the op-ed I wrote in NZ Herald. […]

A landmark partnership between iwi and Māori health providers – including Te Arawa Lakes Trust – is another step forward in designing and delivering equitable health outcomes for Te Arawa whānau. Called Taki O Autahi, the partnership involves ...

“ACT is calling on the Government to use common sense and scrap the burdensome Traveller Declaration form,” says ACT’s Immigration spokesperson Dr James McDowall. “This form is another example of COVID regulations that have passed their use-by ...

A reader writes in: My fellow Kiwis, I think that – as a nation – we may have reached a watershed moment. As our construction sector implodes, our education system quietly dies and our health system lurches desperately from crisis to crisis, kept alive only by the Herculean efforts of our overworked doctors and – […]

Wellington.Scoop There are thirty nominations for the 13 seats on the Greater Wellington Regional Council in the October local elections. Here are all the nominations: Pōneke/Wellington Regional Constituency (5 vacancies) Arthur, Jake (Independent) Blakeley, Roger (Independent) Bryan, Thomas (Independent) Calvi-Freeman, Chris (Independent) Catley, Leigh (Independent) Hughes, Glenda (Independent) Lee, David (Connecting Wellington) Montgomerie, Chris (Independent) […]

Wellington.Scoop There are three nominations for the Hutt Mayoralty in the October local elections. Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry is seeking re-election for a second term. Also standing: Falgoon Patel, and former Hutt council ceo Tony Stallinger. In Upper Hutt there are five nominations for the mayoralty. Upper Hutt mayor Wayne Guppy is standing again. The […]