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Scouts battle defecating, littering carpark campers
6 Nov 2025"There are toilets a couple of hundred metres away, but people are choosing to just urinate against the wall in the middle of the day."
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'Can't keep doing everything for everybody': FENZ aims to save millions
6 Nov 2025Fire and Emergency is considering cutting jobs and "stopping or slowing" activities in a bid to save money.
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'People learning to manipulate the system': Call for KiwiSaver changes
There's concern withdrawals are being made for the wrong reasons, like "botox and lip fillers".
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Extent of police falsifying breath tests 'unfathomable', lawyer says
6 Nov 2025The number of staff involved, and the fact it occurred across the country, points to wider problems, Barbara Buckett says.
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Democrats win across the spectrum as voters reject Trump
Election results in the US today were a vivid show of discontent with President Donald Trump, nearly a year into his second term.
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Emotional plea to see big cats one last time before they're euthanised
6 Nov 2025Former staff of a Whangārei wildlife park have made a plea to see the remaining animals before they are euthanised.
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Crown apologises for leaving iwi 'virtually landless'
6 Nov 2025Around 500 iwi members travelled to Parliament to witness the third reading of the Ngāti Pāoa Claims Settlement Bill.
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Confirmed: Government considering rough sleeping ban for central Auckland
6 Nov 2025Government ministers have confirmed they are considering measures to move homeless people out of Auckland's city centre - but the exact details remain unclear.
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Another price drop threatens farmers' milk payout hopes
The price fall at the Global Dairy Trade auction was the sixth time in a row, down 2.4 percent to its lowest level since September 2024.
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If the Trump wall is about to crumble, here's where it will show first
5 Nov 2025Analysis: No one wants to cross the commander in chief. But voters now get a chance to have their say.
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Amid worries on Wall St, legendary investor bets against AI
Michael Burry, who rose to fame in theThe Big Short after predicting the housing market would collapse, has placed a new bet.
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A night at a booming homeless shelter
5 Nov 2025"My story is that I was placed on the streets due to family hurts and basically that has lead me to the streets again," one visitor says
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The Tom Phillips recordings: Why the police say they won't prosecute Stuff
5 Nov 2025Duelling opinion pieces have been published this morning, after the news site posted police audio from the night fugitive dad died.
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What 'young people need to learn': Ministry defends less Māori in curriculum
5 Nov 2025The Education Ministry says they contain less Māori because they are more specific.
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Early release and cash, but prison beating witness says no reason to lie
5 Nov 2025The key witness in the Crown's case against Ross Appelgren insists "there was no deal" made for his evidence.
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'That's not how it works': Study highlights paracetamol risks
5 Nov 2025Many New Zealanders are unintentionally taking too much paracetamol, according to a new study.
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The gold clam is here, and multiplying
5 Nov 2025At the end of the small jetty at Bob's Landing on Lake Karaapiro, what looks like a bed of silt-covered gravel turns out to be something else entirely.
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More than 100 police officers still working despite breath test investigation
5 Nov 2025Police are not ruling out criminal investigations after 30,000 alcohol breath tests were falsified.
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Father of man who drowned in harbour appalled by mayor's video
5 Nov 2025New Wellington Mayor Andrew Little posted a video on social media announcing the removal of safety fences, standing on the waterfront.
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Longtime Dragon guitarist Robert Taylor dies
4 Nov 2025Taylor joined the band, known for its big hit April Sun in Cuba, in 1974.
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Drones reveal hidden turtle hotspot in Far North harbour
4 Nov 2025A study identified up 18 individual green turtles from 27 sightings in Rangaunu Harbour.
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We can all help stop the spread of deadly hornets
4 Nov 2025The discovery of yellow-legged hornets is frightening. They're aggressive, and a threat to people and honey bees. Here's how to help.
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Hot, humid, and rainy summer on the cards
4 Nov 2025"It's going to be unusually warm. We're probably going to get a period of pretty wet weather," scientists say.
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Measles left me blind, this is why vaccinations matter
4 Nov 2025Olivia En contracted measles as a baby living as a refugee in Vietnam, where vaccines were not an option for her family.
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