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[ad_1] The COVID-19 alert level restrictions have contributed to a challenging winter season for Mt Ruapehu, like many other tourism businesses across the country. “Climate change and volcano operation present challenges every year, yet COVID-19 has made things even more difficult,” says Murray Gribben, President of Ruapehu Alpine Lifts. “Adapting …

[ad_1] New Zealanders are ready to vote in the upcoming referendum on whether or not they support the cannabis legalization and control bill. Your playlist will load after this ad. MPs Chlöe Swarbrick and Nick Smith appeared alongside NZMA’s Dr. Kate Baddock and Associate Professor Kylee Quince. Source: Q + …

[ad_1] Two new community cases revealed today are related to a returnee who tested positive for Covid-19 after completing the 14-day administered isolation process, and one is a student at an Auckland school. Photo: AFP Today there are four new cases of coronavirus in New Zealand: two community and two …

[ad_1] The club has been in contact with New Zealand immigration and maritime agencies to find a way to allow up to 300 yachts to sail here on the seasonal cruise route. Yachts traditionally headed south to New Zealand every summer. Many carried out yard repairs across the country and …

[ad_1] Epidemiologist Michael Baker is calling for stricter rules for returnees after a man tested positive more than a week after emerging from controlled isolation. The University of Otago public health professor said the government should learn a lesson from the group of three this weekend. He suggested that people …

[ad_1] Foreign yachts seeking refuge in New Zealand from the seasonal Pacific cyclones are baffled by the response of not letting them in. Yacht (file image). Source: istock.com By Tracy Neal of rnz.co.nz The UK-based Ocean Cruising Club received an official notice yesterday that foreign yachts waiting to leave the …

[ad_1] A Marlborough medical cannabis company has been licensed to grow New Zealand’s largest crop. Photo: Kesu / 123rf Puro received the license on Thursday that allows it to commercially grow 90,000 plants for medical use from the Ministry of Health. The crop will be germinated in tunnel houses before …

[ad_1] National Party leader Judith Collins finally launched her party’s campaign today, but the breakthrough was spoiled by a Labor torpedo. The planned launch of National’s campaign had to be canceled after the second Covid-19 outbreak emerged a few days earlier. Collins, instead, is launching the campaign online, from Avalon …

[ad_1] Two new community cases of coronavirus are domestic contacts of a person who recently returned from abroad and are not linked to the Auckland group. The two cases are linked to a man in his 40s, who returned to New Zealand from India on August 27 and had completed …

[ad_1] Residents of Waverley in South Taranaki are upset after a local shared online a photo of a bathroom filled with dark brown water, which they say came directly from their tap. But the local council said the discoloration is caused by a chemical reaction with chlorine and that the …