More than 5% of central North Island highways resealed or replaced in 3 months
Warwick Smith/Stuff Upgrades to the Pahīatua Track were just some of the work done to get central North Island roads ready for winter. People driving on...
Police tightlipped as gang TikTok videos clock up more than 1m views
Questions to police about the influence of gangs on TikTok have gone unanswered, after police revealed they were working with the social media giant on ramraids....
Breakers’ owner Matt Walsh’s special bond with Shaquille O’Neal
Andrew D. Bernstein/Getty Images Shaquille O’Neal was Breakers’ owner Matt Walsh’s personal chauffeur during his short NBA stint with the Miami Heat in 2005. Talk about...
Share the stage: Community backs Waikato Regional Theatre
A fundraising campaign to get the Waikato Regional Theatre to show time has hit the ground running. The Share the Stage campaign to raise funds for...
Timaru’s Kingsdown Manor’s has new owners with plenty of new ideas
Part of a manor on the outskirts of Timaru has returned to bed and breakfast accommodation, with the property’s new North Island owners testing the waters...
Polar Bear: Disney+ doco a clarion call on dangers and urgency of climate change
Polar Bear Released as part of April’s Earth Day commemorations, this constructed reality doco was only ever really going to have one central message in its...
‘Devastating acceptance’: Coastal Wellington communities will be forced out
MONIQUE FORD/Stuff Big waves hammered Houghton Bay on Wellington’s south coast on May 22 but, this time, there was no reported damage. The Wellington City Council...
Time to say goodbye: One final Christchurch mission for world’s largest airborne observatory
Joseph Johnson/Stuff The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia) is a joint project of Nasa and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). Aviation enthusiasts will be hotfooting...
Disney’s Pistol, Neon’s Fear Index among great shows to stream this long weekend
ANGELYNE (TVNZ ONDEMAND) Shameless’ Emmy Rossum plays the eponymous D-list celebrity in this five-part biopic which looks at how she inflitrated pop culture and rose to...
The Responder: Martin Freeman shines in TVNZ’s latest British cop drama
REVIEW: Former Fargo, Sherlock and Hobbit star Martin Freeman is vocally almost unrecognisable in the BBC’s latest addictive six-part police procedural. Adopting a pitch-perfect Scouse accent,...