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[ad_1] A travel bubble with the Cook Islands is about to become a reality. Photo / Getty Images New Zealanders will soon be able to travel to the Cook Islands without being quarantined for two weeks there, or upon returning home. The announcement has just been made public. Prime Minister …

[ad_1] Gareth Copley / Getty Images Pakistan coach Misbah-ul-Haq said they wanted to continue playing for their fans at home. Pakistan considered abandoning their cricket tour of New Zealand while in quarantine for 14 days and coach Misbah-ul-Haq says they chose to stay for their fans. Pakistan got off to …

[ad_1] Warning: this content may be distressing to some readers The Christchurch gunman, a loner and self-described introvert, expressed racist views from a young age. By the time he was 27, those beliefs had turned into extreme violent hatred that led him to carry out an attack on New Zealand’s …

[ad_1] Officials have defended the Covid-19 border regime as huge demand outstrips wait times for foreign kiwis to enter their homeland. Air Commodore Darryn Webb. Source: 1 NEWS There is no availability on New Zealand’s mandatory 14-day hotel-run isolation and quarantine program, or MIQ, until the end of February. That …

[ad_1] New Zealand|Crime Dec 10, 2020, 9:43 p.m.3 minutes to read A woman who works at the Kiwi Street Foodmarket picks up a baseball bat and drives away a man who came in with a gun and asked for money. Video / Supplied An elderly Hastings dairy worker who used …

[ad_1] Deal Dec 11, 2020 04:25 AM4 minutes to read The Westfield Manukau. Photo / Greg Bowker A construction company specializing in outfitting stores was fined $ 200,000 in Manukau District Court after a worker suffered a back fracture, skull fracture and traumatic brain injury from a fall. WorkSafe said …

[ad_1] JOHN SELKIRK / Stuff Norm Maxwell played 36 tryouts for the All Blacks. Former All Black Norm Maxwell’s wife has opened up about his post-career health issues by backing calls urging New Zealand Rugby to do more to help players deal with the effects of concussion. Maxwell was a …

[ad_1] Speaker Trevor Mallard during Question Time in Parliament. Photo / Mark Mitchell OPINION: Trevor Mallard should step down from the post of President, I believe, before he faces a vote of no confidence when Parliament resumes its sessions in February. National lost confidence in him and Labor, the party …

[ad_1] The United States has reached another grim pandemic milestone. On Wednesday, the country recorded 3,054 new coronavirus deaths, breaking the previous record of 2,769 deaths recorded on May 7, according to The Covid Tracking Project. California, currently locked up again after an explosion of cases, also hit a disturbing …

[ad_1] Andrew Harnik / AP President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named 2020 Time Person of the Year. Time The magazine named the president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, and the vice president-elect, Kamala Harris, its “Person of the Year.” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal says …