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[ad_1] Eleven helicopters and nine ground crews will continue to fight the Lake Ōhau fire on Monday, and winds are forecast to start blowing around 10 a.m. The fire started early Sunday and has so far damaged or destroyed 20 houses in Lake Ōhau village, with residents still unable to …

[ad_1] The Detail is a daily news podcast produced for RNZ by Press room and is posted on Stuff with permission. Click on this link to subscribe to the podcast. After an extraordinary period in which immigration soared to new records, the numbers have been exhausted. “There was a day …

[ad_1] Ah, Prince Philip. In his 70 years in royal office, uncovering license plates and obediently walking several steps behind his wife, perhaps his greatest ‘gift’ to the world has been the constant stream of mistakes ranging from the charmingly old-fashioned to the downright racist. This week, despite being 99 …

[ad_1] Tour de France runner-up Primož Roglič won the Liege-Bastogne-Liege one-day classic on Sunday after rival Julian Alaphilippe celebrated it too early. To add insult to injury for world champion Alaphilippe, he was later penalized for an irregular sprint and fell from second to fifth. That was for veering off …

[ad_1] Izzy Leighs was supposed to travel the world this year. At least go to college. Instead, she started a small business in the middle of an economic shutdown. Izzy’s Cafe and Coffee Bar has been operating out of a shipping container on Bealey Ave since June. STACY SQUIRES / …

[ad_1] The speech came hours after various assessments of his health by administration officials made it unclear how ill the president had become since testing positive for coronavirus on Thursday night. A team of White House doctors said Saturday morning that Trump’s condition was improving and that he was already …

[ad_1] The first superyacht to dock at a new quarantine wharf at Auckland’s Queens Wharf will arrive in the City of Sailing today, and the crew on board will have a unique form of isolation. Malta’s 81-meter AIR superyacht, which is chartered for NZ $ 1.6 million per week, departed …

[ad_1] 1:07 am, 04 October 2020 The Springbok Showdown was billed as South Africa’s answer to North vs South and an opportunity for Springbok’s new coach, Jacques Nienaber, to measure the readiness of the nation’s players after more than six months without playing. The ‘Green vs Gold’ match ended with …

[ad_1] Contrasting visions towards economic recovery after the Covid-19 pandemic saw passionate exchanges between Paul Goldsmith of National and Grant Robertson of Labor on Q + A this morning. Your playlist will load after this announcement. National and Labor finance spokespersons describe their plans to jump-start the New Zealand economy …

[ad_1] How bad the president of the United States, Donald Trump, was after his coronavirus diagnosis is mired in confusion. But what is not in dispute is that while fighting infection, it is in the lap of luxury. The facility you are currently in is not an ordinary hospital. Chandeliers …