[ad_1] Fire and Emergency / Supplied The fire in Matawaia, near Pipiwai, has burned 178ha of slash and pine and continues to spread. A bush fire in rural Northland is still spreading and forced a road to close, despite strong response from firefighters. Five helicopters, two excavators, three bulldozers and …
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[ad_1] Trip January 29, 2021 01:29 am4 minutes to read A luxury expedition cruise ship “floating” out of New Zealand waters has stopped at the border because most of the crew were denied visas. According to tour operators, Le Lapérouse’s crew received prior approval from the Ministry of Health to …
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[ad_1] Strict new rules for exercise and smoking have been introduced in Auckland’s managed isolation facilities at the center of the latest community outbreak of Covid. A Kiwi returning to the five-star Pullman hotel says new measures have been introduced at night that allow returnees to leave their rooms for …
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[ad_1] New Zealand has had a relatively soft landing from the pandemic, according to the latest Crown accounts. The accounts, which span the five months ending November 30, 2020, still show an OBEGAL deficit of $ 4.3 billion, but that’s a total of $ 1.9 billion better than the deficit …
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[ad_1] Two sisters arrived from South Africa earlier this month healthy and Covid-19 free. But one would be a victim of the infection, and now her mother believes her youngest daughter, just 15 years old, contracted the virus while they were in controlled isolation at Auckland’s Pullman Hotel. Candice Botha …
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[ad_1] JOHN BISSET / Stuff Delayed motorists are on State Highway 1 looking south towards the scene of a serious accident near the Pareora River south of Timaru. Firefighters released a person from a vehicle after they were trapped when two cars collided in a frontal collision on State Highway …
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[ad_1] Deal January 28, 2021 04:28 am2 minutes to read The crown agency CERT NZ (the Computer Emergency Response Team) issued an advisory about a security vulnerability with iOS that Apple says is being actively exploited by hackers. The problem relates to iOS (the software that runs iPhones), iPadOs, and …
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[ad_1] The GameStop saga has taken an unexpected turn, with stocks falling after an investor forum on Reddit was temporarily closed. Pedestrians pass a GameStop store in lower Manhattan in New York. Photo: AFP The public forum wallstreetbets had driven massive gains in several stocks, including GameStop, an American gaming …
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[ad_1] Zia Mazhar / AP Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a man convicted and later acquitted of Pearl’s murder in 2002, admitted to a “minor” role in her death, disrupting 18 years of denial, the Pearl family’s attorney said. The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a …
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[ad_1] Australia’s Health Minister said the decision was in response to New Zealand’s new community case. Photo / Archive Australia has extended the suspension of its one-way travel bubble with New Zealand for another 72 hours. The bubble check should now end on Sunday, January 31 at 4pm NZT. It …
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