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[ad_1] Warning: This article is about suicide and it could be distressing for some people. A social media giant says it is “aggressively” trying to remove a disturbing video from its platform and will take action against any user who shares the content online. The images, which appear to show …

[ad_1] John Bonning’s mother-in-law was in such agony that even the sheets became an unbearable weight on her body. A recent patient, a former colleague, now skeletal after losing 40 kilograms to cancer, and too wasted to get back up after a fall. Waikato Hospital’s main ER doctor has suffered …

[ad_1] Police have warned church leaders at the center of a Covid-19 subgroup that they may face prosecution if they meet again in violation of government restrictions. Officers were called to close the Mount Roskill Evangelical Fellowship prayer meeting on August 15, while Auckland was under Alert Level 3 restrictions …

[ad_1] New Zealand’s prime minister has launched her election tour of the country from her parents’ home in rural Waikato, so her “people” can care for children. The rescheduled general elections, which now take place on October 17, are different from what the country has seen before, with party leaders …

[ad_1] OPINION: The Australians are surely not going to snatch the Rugby Championship below New Zealand’s peak. Sit. Honesty time. Could occur. If Australia convinces Sanzaar, who is organizing a stakeholder telephone liaison Thursday night to discuss this, that the four-nation tournament should be played for six weeks in Tasmania …

[ad_1] National promises to create a single Crown-owned bank to streamline and finance infrastructure projects if elected to government. The Crown Financial Institution would combine several entities into a single agency called the National Infrastructure Bank, which would advise and finance local and central government projects. It would act as …

[ad_1] A fringe New Zealand political party that has not appeared in pre-election polls and whose co-leader has been criticized for spreading conspiracy theories about Covid-19, has been listed in a televised debate on TVNZ, a state-owned broadcaster . The invitation to Advance NZ has raised concerns that the debate …

[ad_1] A Northern Express bus driver tested positive for Covid-19. Ritchies director Andrew Ritchie confirmed that a driver had tested positive and that health officials were using the HOP card system to help track those who had been on the buses he was driving. Northern Express buses carry passengers from …

[ad_1] Jason Dorday / Stuff The Church of the Evangelical Community of Mt Roskill. An automatic door to the building was opened Wednesday morning, revealing a large room with various QR codes for the Covid-19 tracking app. The church at the center of a coronavirus subgroup in Auckland now embroiled …

[ad_1] A Ritchies bus driver tested positive for coronavirus, the company director confirmed. A staff member at a Maori public health unit in West Auckland also tested positive for the virus. Ritchies director Andrew Ritchie said other drivers had been tested and “are fine.” SUPPLIED A Ritchies bus driver on …