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Waitangi ki Manukau
Source: Auckland Council Waitangi ki Manukau 2025: Exploring the Treaty, culture and music for Te Tiriti o Waitangi with headliners Dam Native, MAJIC, and Jordyn with a Why. Get ready...
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Weather News – Heavy Rain returns to the North – MetService
Source: MetService Covering period of Monday 20 – Tuesday 21 January – Heavy rain and strong winds return to the north of New Zealand. MetService warns of strengthening easterly winds, heavy...
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Two to appear in court following search warrants, Southland
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) Two vehicles have been impounded and their drivers facing charges following search warrants in Southland. Police executed simultaneous search warrants on Friday 17 January...
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Waitangi Day festivities in Tāmaki Makaurau
Source: Auckland Council February marks one of the most important days in the calendar for Aotearoa New Zealand. Waitangi Day commemorates the day when 183 years ago, several Māori chiefs...
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Have your say on proposed changes to Auckland’s dog rules
Source: Auckland Council It is time to unleash your views on proposed changes to Auckland’s dog rules. You can have your say by taking part in the 5-week consultation from...
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Business – ‘Minister for the South Island’ welcomed by Business Canterbury
Source: Business Canterbury Business Canterbury welcomes news that Rangitata MP, James Meager will step into a newly created Minister for the South Island role. The portfolio, which will likely mirror that...
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Tech and Business – New Teletrac Navman Asset Trackers Set Benchmark with One-time Install and Indoor Tracking
Source: Botica Butler Raudon for Teletrac Navman Ten-year battery life provides for one-time install, continuous tracking of assets without disruption; assets viewed via TN360 platform Auckland, 20 January 2025...
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Fire Safety – Temporary fire ban ends in Te Tai Tokerau Northland
Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand After suspending fire permits earlier this week, Fire and Emergency New Zealand is now allowing fire permits already issued to be used again from 8...
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Update: search for missing jetskier, Lake Taupō
Source: New Zealand Police (National News) The search for the missing jetskier on Lake Taupō has resumed this morning. Last night, the Police National Dive Squad arrived and made an...
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‘Shocking’ revelations: the tūi, the pōhutukawa, and the mystery of south Titirangi
Source: Auckland Council For two summers, south Titirangi locals were left scratching their heads over an unsettling sight: an alarming number of dead tūī beneath the same majestic pōhutukawa tree....
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Cobble skinks beat the odds and fly home
Source: Department of Conservation Date: 20 January 2025 It comes after a DOC ranger surveying coastal areas near their original habitat found new populations of these skinks, with one significant site...
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One man raced to court following theft, Invercargill
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) A group of elite cyclists attending a national cycling event in Invercargill managed to add an extra race they had not anticipated to their...
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Police investigating Hutt Valley Death
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) Police are investigating the death of a man in Wellington Hospital yesterday, following an altercation in Boulcott in December. The man was transported to...
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Delays expected following Glenbrook crash
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) Motorists are being advised to expect delays following a crash in Glenbrook this morning. The two vehicle crash, at the intersection of Wyner and...
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Water rescue, Lake Taupō
Source: New Zealand Police (National News) Attributable to Senior Sergeant Andy Livingstone, Taupō Police: Police received a report about 12:40pm today of a person or people on a jetski in...
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Time for the Government to address challenges faced by health sector – NZNO
Source: New Zealand Nurses Organisation The New Zealand Nurses Organisation Tōpūtanga Tapuhi Kaitiaki o Aotearoa (NZNO) is calling on the Government to properly fund and resource the health sector to create...
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Politics – Shuffling Ministers ignores need to increase funding for health and the public service – PSA
Source: PSA If the Government thinks changing Ministers will deliver better health and other public services for New Zealanders, it’s dead wrong. “New Ministers need to advocate for increased funding for...
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Unexplained death, Stratford
Source: New Zealand Police (National News) Police investigating the death of a man in Stratford overnight (Saturday 18 January), are appealing for information. About 11:15pm a man was located deceased...
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Refreshed team to drive economic growth in 2025
Source: New Zealand Government Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has delivered a refreshed team focused on unleashing economic growth to make people better off, create more opportunities for business and help...
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EIT Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) graduates secure roles at partner school | EIT Hawke’s Bay and Tairāwhiti
Source: Eastern Institute of Technology – Tairāwhiti 3 minutes ago EIT Bachelor of Teaching (Primary) graduates Isaac Winterson (second left) and Becca Williams with Havelock North Primary School Principal Nick...
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Two separate whale strandings in the South Island this weekend
Source: Department of Conservation Date: 19 January 2025 Pod of whales stranded in Golden Bay, DOC and Project Jonah responding Attribute to Andrew Lamason, DOC Acting Operations Manager Golden Bay “We...
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Operation Kereru disrupts antisocial road user activity in the Hutt Valley
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) Wellington Police were out in force last night disrupting antisocial road user gatherings across the district, with vehicle seizures, impoundments, and infringements being issued....
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GAZA: Food, water and medicine priorities for children once hostilities paused in Gaza – Save the Children
Source: Save the Children GAZA, 18 January 2025 – Getting food, water, and medical supplies to children in Gaza will be priorities for Save the Children once the pause in hostilities comes...
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First Responders – Vegetation fire on Mangere Mountain: Update 2
Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand The fire at Mangere Mountain is now contained. Crews remain onsite dampening down hotspots and will continue working this morning, 19 Crews fought the blaze...
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Unexplained death, Whangārei
Source: New Zealand Police (National News) Police are making enquiries after a woman was found deceased at a Whau Valley, Whangārei address yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called to the...
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Arrests made after quick-thinking locals call in
Source: New Zealand Police (National News) Police have arrested two offenders following a report of suspicious behaviour by some quick-thinking Canterbury locals in a Rolleston supermarket carpark. In the early...
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Serious crash Waikato Expressway – Tamahere
Source: New Zealand Police (District News) Motorists are advised of a serious crash on the Waikato Expressway which has blocked on and off-ramps. It involved one vehicle and happened shortly...