[ad_1] JOHN BISSET / THINGS The boy sustained critical internal injuries after taking a high-risk drug gamma-butyrolactone (GBL). (File photo) A boy is fighting for his life at Starship Children’s Hospital after using the drug GBL, often known as fantasy. Acting Detective Sergeant Major Michele Gillespie confirmed to Stuff that …
Read More »Barfoot & Thompson Data: Auckland Real Estate Market Ignores Covid As Spring Sales Begin
[ad_1] Auckland’s largest real estate agency set new annual price and volume records last month as the property market defied grim predictions of the effects of Covid and was instead dominated by spring fever. Barfoot & Thompson’s median residential sales price for September was $ 930,000, up from $ 911,000 …
Read More »Rugby League: Alleged NRL Cover-Up: Sam Burgess Denies Shocking Report of Domestic Violence, Drug Use and Sexual Harassment
[ad_1] Sam Burgess’s lawyer has denied Australia’s impressive claims about the former England rugby league star. A report in The Australian alleges that incidents of domestic violence, drug use and stalking involving Burgess were covered up by his former club NRL South Sydney Rabbitohs. Burgess allegedly had to be injected …
Read More »Helping a distraught woman in and out of traffic in Rotorua ‘had to be done’
[ad_1] Supplied The good deed of David Kolibasoga and Sairusi Ravudi in helping a woman in distress has earned praise from teenagers from as far away as Fiji. An act of kindness has garnered praise for two Rotorua teenagers from as far away as England, and attracted calls from media …
Read More »One killed in accident on Hawke’s Bay Expressway
[ad_1] Georgia May Gilbertson / Stuff A motorcyclist was killed in a collision with a truck Friday morning on the Hawke’s Bay Expressway. One person was killed in a serious accident on the Hawke’s Bay Expressway in Napier. Police were called to the scene at 7.32am on Friday. The accident …
Read More »Doctors speak out against the position of the Medical Association on the referendum on cannabis
[ad_1] This story was originally posted on RNZ.co.nz and is being republished with permission. One doctor has resigned her membership and others are speaking out due to the New Zealand Medical Association’s (NZMA) stance on the cannabis referendum. The NZMA opposes the legalization of cannabis in this month’s referendum, due …
Read More »From winter snow to scorching sun: Australian air sees temperatures skyrocket to 25 ° C
[ad_1] It’s shaping up to be a foretaste of summer, with days of scorching temperatures of up to 25 ° C in store for many parts of New Zealand starting tomorrow. After a tumultuous week in which we searched for our thick coats and turned on the heaters as snow …
Read More »Why have I changed my mind about greens
[ad_1] OCTOBER 2, 2020Updated 39 minutes ago Commentary Shane Te Pou, who had never been a fan of the Greens, now believes the party could bring a much-needed jolt of radicalism to what threatens to be another term of cautious incrementalism. Ever since they have existed as a political party, …
Read More »Kiwi police officer Matt Ratana died of a gunshot wound to the chest after the gun was fired ‘multiple times’, according to investigation
[ad_1] A coroner has heard how the former New Zealand officer, Metropolitan Police Sgt. Matiu (Matt) Ratana, was shot in the chest after being shot “multiple times” by a handcuffed suspect inside a police station. The Mailonline reports that the 54-year-old man was shot while preparing to search the suspect …
Read More »Crazy queues as millions of Chinese tourists go on vacation
[ad_1] Millions of Chinese tourists often spend their week-long vacations traveling abroad. This year, travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic mean that some 600 million tourists, about 40 percent of the population, will travel within China during the holidays that began Thursday, according to Ctrip, the travel agency in …
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