A Taranaki businessman has denied a raft of charges brought against him, including rape and abduction. On Tuesday, the man, who has interim name suppression, was arrested and charged with two counts of rape, three of unlawful sexual…

Hard-of-hearing people have extra challenges with the tightening of mask-wearing restrictions under the red light traffic setting against Covid-19.Monique Leith, who is the co-chair of the Kāpiti Coast Chamber of Commerce,…

A 24-year-old man says he was “shit scared” after a yelling and screaming woman smashed a hammer into the windscreen of his car, just inches from his face at a busy suburban Auckland intersection on Friday afternoon.The apparent…

A West Coast family of four huddled on top of a tractor from rising floodwaters have been rescued by helicopter as rain hammers the region.The mother and two young children in nappies were helped off the helicopter at the flooding…

A Christchurch tyre fitter has been awarded more than $32,000 in lost wages and compensation for being laid off, five months after new owners took on the business where he had worked for a decade.Nigel Wootton began as a part-time…

Farmers may have been incorrectly paid for their chickens by Tegel Foods after a weighing specialist company used the wrong part to fix the poultry producer’s weighbridge. Precia Molen was in New Plymouth District Court on Friday…

A flight from Great Barrier to Auckland is the latest high-risk exposure site to be added to the locations of interest, sparking concerns with locals over low vaccination rates at the outer Hauraki Gulf island.People who were on…

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From a boy who loved gaming to an arcade owner, William Morris has taken it upon himself to create an arcade in Kāpiti, something he wished was around when he was younger.”When I was in college I figured there was nothing for…

An Auckland woman who was previously hospitalised with Covid-19 – and was later the subject of a day-long manhunt in October after she gave MIQ guards the slip – has pleaded guilty. Yvette Shelford, who no longer has the virus,…