[ad_1] Covid-19 has caused New Zealand’s average residential energy use to rise in 2020, but the average bill is the lowest in a decade. Data released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment showed that the national average residential energy bill dropped by $ 126 a year, five years …
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[ad_1] Players practice at the Auckland ASB Tennis Center in January under orange skies, due to smoke from the Australian bushfires. Photo / Jason Oxenham The unusual nature of Australia’s Black Summer wildfires may have ushered in a new fire-fueled “ice age” and the world appears to have “crossed a …
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[ad_1] Supplied Guests at the Pullman Hotel blocked Princes Street after a fire alarm went off at the Pullman Hotel in central Auckland, a managed isolation facility, around 7:30 pm on Saturday. Cheers erupted as guests staying at a managed seclusion hotel in central Auckland managed to escape from their …
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[ad_1] BRADEN FASTIER / Nelson Mail Firefighters attend a brush fire on land in Thames-Coromandel. (file photo) Homes are being evacuated as emergency services fight a bushfire on Pumpkin Hill on the Coromandel Peninsula. Sailors Grave Road had been evacuated Saturday night along with several homes on Pumpkin Hill Road, …
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[ad_1] Arthur Taylor, New Zealand’s highest-profile former prisoner and incarcerated attorney, has been called to prison on serious drug charges. Police arrived at his home in Dunedin, where he has been living on probation, late this morning and arrested him. He faces several serious drug charges, some of which carry …
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[ad_1] Queues spilled out of CS Dempster Gate, as cricket fans packed Basin Reserve Hill and the Black Caps delighted them with another knockout punch on Super Saturday. Just a week after their innings and first 134-race victory at Hamilton, New Zealand’s four-pronged attack was once again too intense for …
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[ad_1] Supplied Professor Jim Flynn was an ardent defender of free speech. Professor James (Jim) Robert Flynn, internationally renowned professor of psychology and politics and defender of free speech, has died. The emeritus professor at the University of Otago passed away on Friday at the age of 86. He developed …
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[ad_1] The Constantinos P docks in Northport with more than 1000 containers to be shipped south later this week. Photo / Supplied Trucks traveling north have been returned to Auckland after being told that Northport will cease container operations over the weekend. 1,200 shipping containers were unloaded at Northport due …
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[ad_1] Protesters stand in front of Prairieton Rd from the Federal Chamber of Death Friday in Terre Haute, Indiana. Photo / AP The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions on Friday (Saturday NZT) by killing a Louisiana trucker who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks …
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[ad_1] ALDEN WILLIAMS / Stuff Riders were able to test drive the new Christchurch North Corridor on an opening day on Saturday. Canterbury’s shiny new expressway will give residents “options” on how to travel, says Transportation Minister Michael Wood. The locals were in the north corridor on Saturday for a …
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