[ad_1] Businesses are widely feeling the impact of Auckland’s third city center closure in a year. The city went from Alert Level 3 to Alert Level 2 yesterday morning, but as restaurants, shops and office buildings opened their doors, Aucklandites stayed away with a company reporting there was not a …
Read More »Man broke into Northland Bach, cooked methamphetamine for months and fled after fire, police say
[ad_1] Supplied / Police The bach in Tinopai photographed after it was destroyed by flames in a suspicious fire. Police are searching for a man who they say broke into a Northland bach and used it to cook methamphetamine before fleeing after a fire broke out. Emergency services rushed to …
Read More »Covid-19 vaccines underway in Auckland
[ad_1] The launch of the Covid-19 vaccine in the country is officially underway, and many of the 100 vaccinators today receive their first of two injections from Pfizer. The 25 crew members, mostly nurses, received their vaccination at Auckland’s Jet Park hotel, so they can vaccinate front-line border personnel starting …
Read More »Police announce a nationwide operation to end violence by criminal gangs and organized crime groups
[ad_1] NZ POLICE / Supplied A key focus of Operation Tauwhiro will be to investigate and disrupt the illegal supply of firearms to gangs and organized crime groups. (File photo) The New Zealand police have announced a nationwide operation to disrupt and prevent gun violence by criminal gangs and organized …
Read More »Dying Homeowner Protest Lack of Insurance Repairs, 10 Years After Earthquakes
[ad_1] Brian Shaw says he only has one thing on his bucket list: settle his earthquake-damaged Christchurch apartment claim before he dies. Shaw, who has terminal cancer, is one of the owners of a New Brighton apartment block that was damaged, without payment of insurance or repairs, more than a …
Read More »NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars, will look for signs of ancient life
[ad_1] A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet, taking the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to retrieve rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars. Ground controllers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, cheered and …
Read More »Man convicted of drone-paragliding accident in New Zealand
[ad_1] Ian Hitchcock / Getty Images A drone operator has been prosecuted for an accident between his drone and a paraglider. (File photo) A man has been fined for a “deceptively dangerous” mid-air collision between his drone and a paraglider in formation. It is the first conviction in New Zealand …
Read More »NASA’s Perseverance rover lands on Mars
[ad_1] A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet this morning, taking the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to retrieve rocks that could tell scientists if life ever existed on Mars. Ground controllers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, …
Read More »Live: NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully lands on Mars
[ad_1] A NASA rover has landed on Mars on an epic quest to bring back rocks that can tell if life ever existed on the red planet. Perseverance landed just before 10 a.m. (NZT) after completing the riskiest part of its Mars landing in which flight controllers could only watch …
Read More »Escaping it all: Caravan appears on the lake
[ad_1] To travel February 18, 2021 05:39 pm2 minutes to read Glendhu Bay Motor Camp manager Phil Hunt “camped out” in the middle of Lake Wanaka yesterday. Photo / Jeff Donaldson The grassy beds of Lake Wānaka took on a whole new meaning yesterday, when a caravan appeared on the …
Read More »