[ad_1] New Zealand Police / Supplied Katrina Epiha allegedly escaped from Corrections on September 11 after being taken to Middlemore Hospital. Captured fugitive Katrina Epiha has been taken into custody after she got into a fight with custody officers at the pier. Epiha, 22, faced a charge of escaping legal …
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[ad_1] Some family doctors refuse to provide women with contraception on the grounds that they are morally or personally opposed to them, according to a survey. Family Planning today released the results of the survey, which had more than 6,700 respondents and asked a variety of questions. Also, a quarter …
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[ad_1] One woman says her older sister stopped taking life-saving medications when she learned that her two younger sisters had also been sexually abused in foster care. Gina Sammons told the Royal Commission of Inquiry into State Care on Friday that the death of her older sister Alva 19 years …
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[ad_1] Solar panels and LED lighting will be installed at the Beehive as the government takes steps to reduce its carbon footprint. Climate Change Minister James Shaw made the announcement Friday afternoon. Shaw said solar panels will be installed to improve energy efficiency. ROSA WOODS / Things Solar panels and …
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[ad_1] Two women told the Abuse in Care investigation that their older sister, who later died, tried to protect them from being abused while they were in foster care. Tanya and Georgina Sammons. Photo: RNZ / Andrew McRae All three were put into care from an early age. Georgina and …
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[ad_1] Ihumātao is an area of historical importance to the Maori near Auckland Airport, where activists have protested against the Fletcher Building’s plans to build nearly 500 houses on land it purchased, which was confiscated in 1863 by the Crown. Protesters from the Save Our Unique Landscape (SOUL) movement, led …
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[ad_1] A man charged with the sudden death of an American polo star in the spa pool of a Christchurch hillside home will stand trial later this year. Lauren Mikaila Biddle, 22, died in a hillside home in the Christchurch suburb of Clifton on October 22, 2018. Biddle, a promising …
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[ad_1] ROSA WOODS / Things The Tenants, a tenant advocacy group and politicians gathered outside Parliament to bid farewell to the rent freeze on Friday. Black balloons, a “rent freeze goodbye” sign and a carrot cake battled the Wellington winds as tenants said goodbye to the six-month freeze that kept …
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[ad_1] There are two new cases of Covid-19, one in the community. One case is from abroad and tested positive in controlled isolation. The case of the community is a woman in her adolescence who was already isolating herself. She is a family contact, epidemiologically linked to the mourning subgroup …
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[ad_1] New Zealand’s Covid-19 elimination strategy and “bubbles” have been praised by international experts who have implored other countries to follow suit. In the report, published in The lancet, Scholars from the National University of Singapore and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as former Prime …
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