[ad_1] A woman was injured after being buried in mud while sleeping at Hospital Hill. Photo / Warren Buckland By Christian Fuller and Shannon Johnstone A woman buried up to her neck in mud was rescued by her partner after a widespread flood in Napier caused a large slip at …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: Waikato cities can relax: casual contact tests negative
[ad_1] New Zealand November 9, 2020 02:45 am2 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Dr. Ashley Bloomfield offers a Covid-19 update following the scares in Auckland, Wellington and Waikato. Small towns on high alert can breathe a sigh of relief …
Read More »Covid-19: Pfizer coronavirus vaccine is ‘a path’ for New Zealand
[ad_1] A promising Covid-19 vaccine is part of “a way out” of the restrictions the coronavirus has imposed, New Zealand experts say. However, keeping it at sub-zero temperatures will be one of the challenges as it is rolled out. Early data from Pfizer and BioNTech suggest that their vaccine could …
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[ad_1] Rural contractors and farmers are “beside themselves with frustration and despair” over the log jam in managed quarantine and isolation facilities, despite 100 new rooms being made available on Monday. Rural Contactors CEO Roger Parton said in a statement that the industry was at a crisis point trying to …
Read More »Coronavirus, politics, exhaustion bringing foreign doctors to New Zealand
[ad_1] NZDr is a New Zealand based medical recruitment agency providing specialists and GPs to all district health boards. Martin King is a licensed immigration consultant for the agency, he said that New Zealand’s COVID response had resonated with the rest of the world and was shown in the demand …
Read More »Kiwi Writers Honored with Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement
[ad_1] SUPPLIED Winners of the 2020 Prime Minister’s Awards for literary achievement Tessa Duder, Sir Tīmoti Kāretu, and Jenny Bornholdt. Poetry is everything to Jenny Bornholdt. A recipient of the Arts Foundation and a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, the 30-year-old anthologist and poet is one of …
Read More »US Elections: ‘He’s a Bad Loser’: Donald Trump’s First Wife Ivana Speaks Out
[ad_1] World November 10, 2020 03:14 am3 minutes to read The video will play in Play now Don’t play automatically Never auto game Donald Trump fires Secretary of Defense Mark Esper via Twitter. Video / CNN The first wife of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, Ivana Trump, …
Read More »Donald Trump dismisses the head of the climate office whose report he rejected
[ad_1] The Trump administration abruptly removed a senior official who was recording the US government’s investigation into global warming, just as his agency was beginning to write the next climate report card. Mike Kuperberg, a Department of Energy employee who has led the U.S. Global Change Research Program for years, …
Read More »‘Trump-style’ policy accusations in coup to topple community board president
[ad_1] John Kirk-Anderson / Stuff Alexandra Davids faces a challenge to her leadership on the Waikura / Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Board. Accusations of “Trump-style” policies and “despicable” actions have plagued a Christchurch community board as Labor-aligned People’s Choice members move to oust the board chair. Five People’s Choice members of the …
Read More »Worst rain in 57 years floods New Zealand town of Napier | New Zealand
[ad_1] Record rains and floods have plunged the New Zealand town of Napier into a state of emergency. The North Island city, famous for its art deco architecture, had 242.4 mm of rain between 9 a.m. Monday and 9 a.m. Tuesday, the wettest day since 1963 and the second highest …
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