[ad_1] Three people are in police custody after an alleged firearms incident in Castlecliff this afternoon. Whanganui police blocked several streets in Castlecliff and schools were closed after reports of shooting. “We confirmed that three people are now in police custody, and the schools that were asked to keep their …
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[ad_1] Complaints about the billboard and newspaper ads by Tukituki MP Lawrence Yule claiming that he had secured millions of dollars worth of infrastructure project funding for Hawke’s Bay have been dismissed. The Lawrence Yule billboard has received complaints. Source: rnz.co.nz The Advertising Standards Authority received two complaints related to …
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[ad_1] Two more people have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Hamilton father in March. Sao Young, 40, was last seen in the Insoll Ave area a month earlier, on March 13, when police alleged he was killed. His body was found a month later on a …
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[ad_1] Mark Tantrum / Getty Images Dean Jones on the countdown to the 2015 Cricket World Cup in Wellington. Former Australian cricketer Dean Jones died of a heart attack at age 59. Jones, in Mumbai as part of the Indian Premier League’s official broadcast commentary team, suffered a major heart …
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[ad_1] China, South Korea and Taiwan are reported to have agreed to assist in the search for the Gulf Livestock 1 ship, which went missing in early September with 43 crew members on board, including two New Zealanders. The event was reported by CNN, which quotes the Philippine Labor Secretary …
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[ad_1] South Korea says North Korean troops shot dead a South Korean government official who may have attempted to defect and set his body on fire after they found him on a floating object in waters near the disputed maritime boundary of the rivals. According to Seoul’s announcement, the man …
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[ad_1] Rugby Australia says they are not to blame for the Rugby Championship schedule which could leave the All Blacks quarantined in a hotel over Christmas. New Zealand is crying about playing the final game of the six-week tournament, a Bledisloe Cup tryout against the Wallabies in Sydney, on December …
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[ad_1] The leader of the Opportunities Party (TOP) has had to correct his election announcements after an announcement appeared in which the electorate to which he is running was misspelled. Geoff Simmons, who was running for Rongotai’s Wellington electorate, appeared in ads for his endorsement, but the suburb was misspelled. …
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[ad_1] Amid authorities and farmers working to end poor intensive grazing in winter, new images have emerged of farms across the South Island showing animals living knee-deep in mud this winter. Your playlist will load after this announcement. Authorities have been working to end the practice known as intensive winter …
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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 …
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