Latest Auckland News
RSS-
Dunne slams rogue elephant over tough line on partys fate
Peter Dunne has hit out at the Electoral Commission after it refused to budge on its requirements for his party's reregistration, describing it as "petty bureaucracy'," "a rogue elephant" and "living in the days of quill pens and parchment". Mr Dunne risks losing up to $185,000 a year in parliamentary finding if he cannot reregister United Future quickly, and hoped to persuade the commission ...
-
Ask Phoebe Bus lane solution in the works
When approaching Market Place from Fanshawe St coming off the bridge, the bus lane ends and there is a "left lane, left turn into Market Place only" sign. Immediately after the junction the bus lane picks up again. Can buses go straight on from the left lane (which seems sensible)? Drivers seem split about 50/50 on the issue, judging by their behaviour. Quentin Bennett, ...
-
Lone voice against steroid scourge
Every day Don Hooton fires up his computer in McKinney, Texas, and searches Google for stories about the impact of steroids on young lives. This week, what Don found stopped him cold. In 2003 Don's son, Taylor, took his own life in circumstances that almost exactly mirrored the suicide four years earlier of Invercargill 20-year-old Kris McKenzie, whose tragic story was documented in Monday's ...
More Auckland News
RSS-
Approval for DNA splicing triggers legal action based on GM fears
The agency charged with protecting New Zealand's environment has approved the use of a new technique for creating "mutant" genes outside the laboratory because it doesn't fit a legal definition of genetic modification. The technique would see scientists free to splice DNA - deleting or inserting new parts and changing the way it works - without having to work inside the laws governing genetic ...
-
Drug case cops warned Olympian
An Olympic athlete was given a formal warning by police investigating an international drug ring but New Zealand sports officials had no choice but to select him when charges were not laid. Logan Campbell represented New Zealand at the Beijing and London Olympics in the martial art of taekwondo, but is best known for owning a brothel to finance his sporting goals. He sold the escort agency after ...
-
Hep A outbreak in Canterbury town
Hepatitis A is spreading in a Canterbury town, with young children amongst those infected.About 300 jabs against the serious disease were given to Ashburton residents on Monday, after an outbreak in the area.Canterbury DHB says 11 people have been struck with Hepatitis A in the past four weeks, with four of those children under five years old.Hepatitis is an infectious liver disease that causes ...
-
Sight lost after attack four charged
Four men have been arrested after an attack on Auckland's North Shore which cost one person the sight in one eye.The attacks happened at the Deep Creek Brewing Company in Browns Bay on Friday May 3, in which one person lost the sight in an eye and another received a deep laceration to his scalp.Two men were arrested on June 9 and a further two on Wednesday, Detective Sergeant Scott ...
-
Samuel L. Jackson has revealed he would turn up to auditions stinking of alcohol.
Speaking on UK TV show 'This Morning', he said: "I was doing a lot of drugs and doing a lot of drinking because I had a theatre teacher at university who said, 'If you want to be one of the great ones, you have to learn how to handle your alcohol and do all these other things while you're performing'and we took that to heart and we did it."So maybe when I ...
-
Pokie reforms `wont reduce gambling harm
The government's pokie machine reforms won't do anything to reduce the harm caused by gambling, the Greens say.Internal Affairs Minister Chris Tremain announced the measures on Wednesday, saying he was putting up a balanced package which will ensure communities get a greater return from pokies while the amount paid to bars to host machines will be cut.He says the minimum rate of return ...
-
Kristen Stewart enjoyed a night at Hooters in Texas.
The 'Twilight Saga' beauty dined at the chain restaurant - which is famous for its busty waitresses - over the weekend and although she tried to keep a low profile, Kristen, 23, was happy to pose for pictures with employees and ...
-
Brooke Mueller quit rehab because it was “too hard”.
The former wife of Charlie Sheen checked in to the Betty Ford Clinic in California last month for her 21st rehab stint but left the facility recently because she was unhappy at being asked to do ...
-
Four arrested after man loses eyesight in assault
File photo / NZ Herald Four men have been arrested over an assault at a North Shore pub that left a person blind in one eye and another with a deep cut to his scalp. The assault happened at Deep Creek Brewing Co in Browns Bay late on May 3. A 25-year old-North Shore man has been charged with maiming with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and assault and a 24-year-old Waimauku ...
-
Jobs for 35 to go at Yellow
An estimated 35 jobs are set to be lost as directory provider Yellow tries to make its business more digitally friendly.Yellow, which was sold by Telecom in 2007, is splitting its sales team into directories and digital marketing in a bid to drive its digital marketing offering.The restructuring will result in about 35 job losses, most of which are in the Auckland sales team, with smaller ...
-
Gwyneth Paltrow was honoured at a prestigious gala in Chicago on Saturday night.
Wearing a high-collared cream dress by Alexander McQueen, the 40-year-old Oscar-winner was joined by her actress pal Amanda De Cadenet at the event, titled 'A Summer Soire with Gwyneth Paltrow,' at the Ritz-Carlton hotel, where she took to the stage to discuss her film choices as clips from some of her most notable performances were displaced on a big screen.The 'Shakespeare in ...
-
Animal limb found in imported farm feed
Rules for imports of an important feed for dairy cows are being tightened after an animal limb was found in a shipment.A Bay of Plenty farmer found the lower part of an animal leg, about 18cm long, in a shipment of palm kernel expeller.The Ministry for Primary Industries visited PKE processing facilities in Malaysia and Indonesia this month as a result and will strengthen import requirements, ...
-
Beyonce Knowles has congratulated Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on the birth of their daughter.
The tot was born five weeks early on Saturday and Beyonce, whose husband Jay-Z collaborated with Kanye on the album 'Watch The Throne', took to her website to pass on her good ...
-
DHB slammed for letting mental health patient decline procedure
A decision to allow a mental health patient to decline a potentially life-saving procedure has been slammed by a coroner. Wellington Regional Coroner Ian Roderick Smith criticised Capital and Coast District Health Board (DHB) in three inquest findings released today. He said 61-year-old Melvyn Bedford, who had an alcohol-induced dementia disorder, should never been given the choice of having a ...
-
Cancer victims firewood stolen
An Ohauiti family with a dying father will have to suffer through winter after their whole supply of firewood was stolen. The Bay of Plenty Times spoke to the Foster family only hours after they returned from a trip to Fiji and discovered their whole supply of firewood, more than 3 cubic metres, was removed from a shed in their back yard. The trip had been anonymously donated to the family with ...
-
Heights discussed at first Unitary Plan workshop
Wednesday, 19 June 2013, 6:28 pm Press Release: Auckland Council 19 June 2013 Heights discussed at first Unitary Plan workshop Today elected members of Auckland Council attended the first post-engagement workshop following feedback on the draft Unitary Plan.Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse said the workshop brought together Local Board Chairs and the Auckland Plan Committee members to talk ...
-
Mana Party policy aims to get more Maori into home ownership
The Mana Party will build homes and offer financial support to get more Maori into home ownership, under a new policy to be launched tomorrow. A spokesman for leader Hone Harawira said the policy would be specific to the 41 per cent of Maori who have never owned a home. The spokesman said the party opposed Housing New Zealand's housing renewal programme, which has seen state houses demolished ...
-
Kiwi almost unchanged as traders await Fed meeting outcome
The New Zealand dollar was almost unchanged in local trading as traders await the outcome from the Federal Reserve's monetary policy review and whether the US central bank plans to start unwinding its asset purchase programme. The kiwi traded at 79.88 US cents at 5pm in Wellington from 79.91 cents at 8am, and 79.87 cents yesterday. The trade-weighted index was little changed at 74.12 ...
-
Kapiti Coast police search for suspected arsonist
Police are searching for a man suspected of setting alight a house on the Kapiti coast. Kapiti-Mana police said they wanted to locate 38-year-old Randall Ure after a warrant was issued for his arrest for arson and burglary. Two weeks ago, a Doncaster Terrace residential property was set alight and police believed Ure was responsible. Police believed he was living rough in ...
-
Woman posted wrong patients medical records
The West Coast District Health Board has apologised after it posted two pages of a woman's private medical records to the wrong person. The papers were mistakenly sent to Ashburton woman Jen Branje, who was living in Westport when she had surgery at Grey Base Hospital last year. She lodged an ACC claim, and asked the hospital to post her records to back up her ...
-
Nun admits breaking childs arm
Leva-i-Fangalupe Fono leaving the courthouse. Photo / Brett Phibbs A nun has admitted breaking the arm of a 9-year-old at Sunday School after the girl failed to get an action song right. Leva-i-Fangalupe Fono - known as Sister Leva - yelled at the girl, flicked her in the head and broke the girl's arm when she twisted it behind her back. She is seeking forgiveness from the ...
-
Crime spree suspect remanded in custody
Photo / NZ Herald A 25-year-old Bellevue man accused of a major crime wave involving the theft of thousands of dollars worth of items from cars in Tauranga remains behind bars. Roofer Erick Hekeiterangi Wijohn, 23, faced 65 charges of theft ex-car, 78 charges of unlawfully getting into cars, and a theft charge in Tauranga District Court yesterday. Wijohn is also facing two burglary charges and ...
New Zealand Featured
-
New Zealand stepping up for regional fisheries
New Zealand is regional power in the Pacific and this is reflected in our ongoing involvement in the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, which is the mechanism by which the region manages one of its greatest natural resources.
New Zealand has long been a regional power in the South Pacific, and in this capacity the country has lead a number of major initiatives undertaken alone or in conjunction with other Pacific Island nations, the most important of these have been policies aimed at environmental protection and sustainability, as well as monitoring and rehabilitation of important environmental resources, such as the Pacific fisheries. Read more
News from around our Network
