[ad_1] Colliers / Waikato Times Heartland Bank pays below market rates, First Union says. Unionized workers at Heartland Bank in Auckland are on strike after failing to achieve a “significant” increase in wages. Heartland Bank has made headlines in recent weeks after it slashed its home loan rates below those …
Read More »Covid 19 coronavirus: French doctor warns that his country has ‘lost control’
[ad_1] A French doctor today warned that his country has “lost control of the Covid-19 epidemic”, a day after health authorities reported more than 52,000 new cases of coronavirus as nations in Europe enact more radical restrictions to try to curb the increasing infection rates. Spain, the first European country …
Read More »Karaka chainsaw massacre: carnage when native Christmas trees cut down on suburban street
[ad_1] City Hall workers clear pohutukawa trees from Harborside Dr trail and road, Karaka, after a mysterious person cut eight with a chainsaw during Labor Weekend. Photo / Supplied Locals are stumped after eight pohutukawa trees lining a street in an upscale Auckland suburb were inexplicably felled in a chainsaw …
Read More »Covid-19: trip will be delayed for second group of fishermen heading to New Zealand
[ad_1] A second group of fishermen expected to stay in a Christchurch managed isolation facility will have their trip delayed by at least a week while the first group is retested. Chief Health Officer Dr. Ashley Bloomfield announced Tuesday that 29 Russian and Ukrainian fishermen in controlled isolation at Christchurch’s …
Read More »The wandering councilor apologized after the finger tirade against the deputy mayor
[ad_1] Hamish McNeilly / Stuff Cr Lee Vandervis has been told to apologize to Dunedin’s deputy mayor following an altercation after a council meeting. A Dunedin city councilman was urged to seek help for anger management issues when he faced censure for an outburst against the city’s deputy mayor. An …
Read More »“ He was so small ”: a witness recounts the fatal attack of a dog on a newborn
[ad_1] STUFF A kennel is empty at the Hamilton home where a baby was fatally injured in a dog attack. When Karen closes her eyes, she sees a mother sitting on the lawn outside her home in Hamilton, holding the fatally injured baby who had given birth less than a …
Read More »The Gisborne man never explained why he shot an 8-year-old neighbor with an air rifle
[ad_1] The man who shot his 8-year-old son did not look like the monster Kim Tupara envisioned. Sitting on the dock at the Gisborne courthouse, Kirk Davis was well dressed, clean shaven and “looked like someone you would choose to hitchhike,” Tupara said. The 43-year-old man was being sentenced for …
Read More »Armed Criminal Squad Searches Property After Police Officer Shot In Northland
[ad_1] DENISE PIPER / Things Police at the search site near Matauri Bay, north of Kerikeri, Tuesday morning. The Armed Criminal Squad searched a rural block in Northland after two men shot a police officer in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The incident took place on State Highway 11 …
Read More »The false colonel reappears as a forensic psychologist, ‘buys’ a $ 60,000 Porsche Boxster from his partner
[ad_1] Supplied Bruce Reid, photographed here in 2011, when he was discovered as impersonating a soldier. A false lieutenant colonel has resurfaced posing as a forensic psychologist with enough cash to buy his partner a $ 60,000 Porsche. Bruce Reid’s latest hoax was revealed in Motor Vehicle Dispute Court documents …
Read More »Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed as Justice of the United States Supreme Court by Majority Vote
[ad_1] Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed before the United States Supreme Court by a deeply divided Senate with Republicans dominating Democrats to install President Donald Trump’s candidate. Just days before the election, confirmation in Washington DC on Monday night (local time) secures a conservative majority in court for years …
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