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[ad_1] Engineers working on permanent repairs to Auckland’s damaged Harbor Bridge are working on detailed scans, thanks to the world’s fastest laser scanner. The New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) said in a post that Envivo Ltd collected millions of data points and created a 3D mesh of the area and …

[ad_1] A photo of Rozayah Hudson smiling as she clutched a pile of driftwood in her tiny arms is a reminder to her family of who he was: a little boy trying to make his koro proud. The 6-year-old, who died in a “tragic accident” on a dairy farm in …

[ad_1] Renee McKay / Getty Images New Zealand has dominated the trans-Tasmanian rugby rivalry on the field, with a mortgage on the Bledisloe Cup. The two home events of the All Blacks Bledisloe Cup will have a later start time than originally scheduled. The games, in Wellington on Sunday, October …

[ad_1] The announcement of the national deputy is under investigation after the complaints and is misleading. The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected two complaints filed about billboards by national MPs and one advertisement in a newspaper. Radio NZ reported Thursday that an anonymous whistleblower had claimed that he had violated …

[ad_1] A workers union is asking a strawberry farm to pay more to pick up jobs if it wants New Zealanders to do the job. Perrys Berrys in Wiri, south of Auckland, said it faces tons of fruit rotting on the ground unless it gets recognized seasonal workers (RSE) from …

[ad_1] ANALYSIS: Despite being on opposite ends of the Earth, Iceland and New Zealand have many similarities. Both are small island countries, heavily reliant on tourism and currently run by young female prime ministers. Both countries have also been praised for their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, characterized by science-informed …

[ad_1] National would revoke several regulations introduced by the current government on agriculture if elected, including the possible introduction of agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme in 2022. It has also confirmed its intention to introduce an expedited primary sector visa for skills shortages, a policy proposed by former leader …

[ad_1] American scientists have published a study of more than 5,000 genetic sequences of the coronavirus, which reveals the continued accumulation of mutations of the virus, one of which may have made it more contagious. That mutation is associated with a higher viral load among patients at the time of …

[ad_1] The injury, and the desire to put the team first, robbed the late David Halligan of the opportunity to play a rugby event, but his brother “always thought of Dave as an All Black.” The talented former fullback, an Otago star in the early 1980s, once joked that he …

[ad_1] WARNING: REFERENCES TO SEXUAL ABUSE, SUICIDE Sexual abuse at the Dilworth school was happening as early as the 1950s, says a student who has kept his alleged abuse a secret for 70 years. Seven men were charged last week with unrelated historical abuse crimes in Dilworth that took place …