[ad_1] Supplied The Southland man, Lochie Bellerby, was aboard a cattle ship that sank off the coast of Japan on September 2. He is still missing. The family of a Southland man who has been missing at sea for a week still hopes they will find him. Lochie Bellerby, in …
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[ad_1] One of the nation’s leading academics says he is considering leaving the University of Waikato because of what he calls “systemic and casual racism” underway. Maori astronomer Dr. Rangi Matamua, who this year received the Prime Minister’s Award for Scientific Communications and has been a leading advocate for making …
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[ad_1] Auckland’s water management company Watercare obtained consent to take an additional 100 million liters of water per day from the Waikato River. It comes amid fears of severe water shortages following Auckland’s worst drought and the prospect of looming water restrictions this summer. In a statement tonight, the Waikato …
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[ad_1] New Zealand’s prime minister has launched her election tour of the country from her parents’ home in rural Waikato, so her “people” can care for children. The rescheduled general elections, which now take place on October 17, are different from what the country has seen before, with party leaders …
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[ad_1] OPINION: The Australians are surely not going to snatch the Rugby Championship below New Zealand’s peak. Sit. Honesty time. Could occur. If Australia convinces Sanzaar, who is organizing a stakeholder telephone liaison Thursday night to discuss this, that the four-nation tournament should be played for six weeks in Tasmania …
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[ad_1] Many top earners should be able to partially protect themselves from Labor’s top 39% income tax rate, experts say. Finance Minister Grant Robertson predicted that the new tax rate, which would impose on income in excess of $ 180,000 a year, would raise $ 550 million a year. But …
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[ad_1] Visions of a scenic ride on a Waikato River ferry have sunk. The Waikato River Explorer, the city’s river tour business, was due to start daily ferry service in August to make up for a recession due to a lack of tourists. The test, which runs from Pūkete to …
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[ad_1] A Muslim store owner in Wellington captured a customer’s racist conversation on camera when he visited her store. Nureddin Abdurahman, owner of Near And Far Import Export Limited, was at work Tuesday afternoon when the woman walked into his store to look at rugs. But instead of looking through …
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[ad_1] The calls intercepted between alleged drug traffickers, a lawyer and the president of the Comancheros Motorcyle Club have been played by jury. The money and drug laundering trial against Pasilika Naufahu, Connor Michael Tamati Clausen, accountant Wiwini Himi Hakaraia, a media personality who has name suppression, and a woman …
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[ad_1] Supplied Fenz has posted this photograph of the fire in Ben Lomand, a mountain near Queenstown, one of two fires caused by high winds that caused controlled burns in Otago on Wednesday. Two fires have devastated 1,800 hectares of the Otago highlands. Fire and Emergency NZ (Fenz) was called …
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