Displaced by devastating floods, family of 16 ‘happy’ to live under one roof
A family of six has no choice but to stay in a three-bedroom house with 10 other family members as they are “left with nothing” after...
Police respond to fatal crash near Dannevirke in Tararua
Stuff A person has died on a single-vehicle crash on State Highway 2 near Dannevirke on Friday evening. A single-vehicle crash has resulted in a death...
TVNZ+’s Poker Face, Netflix’s Cunk on Earth among great shows to stream this Waitangi weekend
CUNK ON EARTH (NETFLIX) Move over Simon Schama and Brian Cox, there’s a new British presenter aiming to entertain and enlighten audiences as to human history...
Frustration for drivers and train passengers leaving Ed Sheeran concert
Supplied Counters at Wellington Railway Station after the Ed Sheeran concert on Thursday night were packed with travellers wanting tickets. Great concert, but many travellers could...
True Spirit: Kiwis Cliff Curtis, Anna Paquin can’t bail out Netflix’s soggy Aussie sailing drama
True Spirit (PG, 109mins) Directed by Sarah Spillane **½ Like her sails, Jessica Watson’s (Titans’ Teagan Croft) dream lies in tatters. An altercation with a wayward...
The man who tastes up to 20 ice creams a day and still enjoys them at the weekend
Supplied/Nelson Mail Ari Penberthy, the new product development and innovation manager at NZ Creameries tasting room. When he tells people that he tastes ice creams for...
Author who thinks NZ settled by descendants of ‘red-haired Starwalkers’ to give talk
Braden Fastier/Nelson Mail Geoff and Sheree Sherlock hold gigs – and now a talk by author Freddy Silva – at their venue Room Twenty5 in Richmond....
Safety upgrade for crash-prone SH1 section south of Timaru enters 12-month design phase
JOHN BISSET/Stuff A severely damaged SUV in a paddock alongside State Highway 1, just south of Pareora on January 10, 2023. It was identified as “high-risk”...
West Aucklanders urged to reduce water use, one week on from flooding
DAVID WHITE/STUFF Watercare is asking that those affected keep showers short and don’t use washing machines. Residents of Titirangi, Konini, Oratia and parts of Glen Eden...
Woman accused of exploitation says she treated Papua New Guinea workers ‘like kings and queens’
Mark Taylor/Stuff Christina Kewa-Swarbrick is on trial at Hamilton District Court on immigration charges relating to a group of workers brought over from Papua New Guinea....