Save the Children has welcomed yesterday’s announcement of a significant increase in childcare subsidies. "Access to early learning plays an important role in the social and emotional development of young children as well as learning through ...
Foodstuffs has joined the Kai Commitment initiative, a voluntary agreement among leading food sector businesses designed to reduce food waste, and emissions from food waste, across Aotearoa’s food supply chain. The Kai Commitment is led by the ...
ASB Classic event director Nicolas Lamperin is thrilled with the success of Auckland-bound Holger Rune, who is the hottest mover in world tennis. The Danish teenager, who last month confirmed his place for January’s ATP Tournament in Auckland, has since been ...
After six years of dedicated unpaid service, NZTech’s chair Mitchell Pham has passed the baton to the next generation. <img src="https://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/2211/3e29ce3485cad4b06bab.jpeg" width="720" height="408"> Pham worked tirelessly for NZTech ...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s future energy centre, Ara Ake, has welcomed the strong international interest in its Electricity Distribution Business (EDB) Decarbonisation Challenge, with five of the six finalists being from offshore. In September, Ara ...
Workers over 50 are more likely to go above and beyond in their job than workers still to celebrate their 25th birthday. Leading New Zealand recruiter Frog Recruitment surveyed 1107 Kiwi workers and revealed that 54 percent of recipients aged 50-plus ...
Researchers at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland have received Waka Kotahi Innovation funding for a project that aims to encourage suburban commuters to use scooters, bikes and e-bikes to connect to public transport, ...
A peer review of modelling behind the Government’s plans to remove nicotine from cigarettes has found significant flaws in the fundamental assumptions it used, says ASH Smokefree 2025. The Ouakrim et al. (2022) modelling was funded by the Ministry ...
Forest & Bird is calling on the Government to develop a national Room for Rivers plan to protect communities and wildlife in the face of increased flooding – and want a $500m contestable flood mitigation fund set up to help make it happen. ...
ASB customers can now upgrade to an electric vehicle or a drier, warmer or more energy efficient home with the new ASB Better Homes Top Up offering a low 1% p.a. fixed interest rate for three years. The ASB Better Homes Top Up will enable existing ...
Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ says increased early childhood subsidies are good news for families, but won’t fix the ECE workforce crisis, teacher pay or the struggles of many community-based centres to stay afloat. “The Government’s cost-of-living ...
One person has died following a crash in Khandallah this morning. The crash, at the intersection of Station Road and Cashmere Avenue, was reported to Police at 6.35am. Road closures remain in place and trains have also been stopped, as the crash occurred ...
Associate Education Minister Jan Tinetti has wished students well ahead of NCEA and New Zealand Scholarship exams, which begin this morning.
News from Fire and Emergency NZ Firefighters were kept busy this Guy Fawkes weekend with fires caused by fireworks including one at Breaker Bay in Wellington. They are calling for anyone who has leftover fireworks, and plans to use them, to do so responsibly. Community Education Manager Adrian Nacey says the conditions were dry and […]
Wellington.Scoop The playground on Frank Kitts Park, which has been closed for redevelopment costing $6m, will not be reopening till the end of next year. It was supposed to reopen last month. The news was tweeted today by the Wellington City Council, in response to a question about why it is still closed. @WgtnCC Is […]
News from TEU If Victoria University management still sit on insufficient offers to tutors and other staff by the time of graduation, the Tertiary Education Union VUW branch is urging its members to boycott graduation, says branch president Dougal McNeill. “Graduation is the highlight of our academic year and we do this with a heavy […]
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Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke introduced the Fair Work Legislation Amendment ( Secure Jobs, Better Pay ) Bill 2022 aimed at closing the gender pay gap, expanding multi-employer bargaining and bringing in flexible rostering ...
Gold Coast’s Hailee-Jay Ormond-Maunsell has been brought in to make her Kiwi Ferns debut as starting centre against the Cook Islands on Sunday, November 6 at 5.00pm at the LNER Community Stadium in York. Her inclusion follows the withdrawal ...
Search and rescue operations will continue today on the Manukau Harbour, following the incident yesterday in which a boat capsized.
Emergency services are responding to a serious crash at the intersection of Station Road and Cashmere Avenue in Khandallah, Wellington.
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, 6 November 2022 - The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 opened today with the key aim of ensuring full implementation of the Paris Agreement . Discussions at COP27 begin near the end of a year that has seen devastating ...
A guest post by David Garrett: I have recently returned to the Kingdom of Tonga, after a long absence; I last did significant work here representing the Tonga Ports Authority at the Princess Ashika enquiry back in 2011. (Both I and the then CEO of the Ports Authority subsequently got fired. My crime was “aiding […]
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Police can confirm that one person has died following a crash involving a car and a motorcycle on SH30, Lake Ōkataina, Rotorua.
Police can confirm that one person has died and one person is missing, following an incident in Manukau Harbour this afternoon.