Caroline Baum: Things that get up my nose (and help to meet a deadline)
Every Christmas people in my line of work rack their brains for a creative year-end column.Recapping the big stories or riffing on the movers and shakers, winners and losers, is always popular. A "10 Best" or "10 Worst" list is...
Adopt me: Gypsy the staffordshire bull terrier cross
Gypsy is the Bridget Jones of dogs. This slightly chunky staffordshire bull terrier cross just needs someone with lots of affection to give her, and she will love you in return.She is vocal and physically strong, and needs a family...
Cathedral work to take longer
Restoration work at St Patrick`s Cathedral in central Auckland will cost almost an extra $1 million and take about four months longer than first thought.Instead of opening in April in time for Easter, the 160-year-old building...
Catching up with: Rob Hewitt, dive survivor
He was supposed to be at the Wellington rugby sevens. Instead, on February 5, Rob Hewitt was floating in the water off the Kapiti Coast, 600m adrift of his boat while rescue helicopters circled above.It was the start of a 75-hour...
Warning for boaties
Boaties who celebrate New Year using distress flares for fireworks displays are not only breaking the law but could trigger fires, says the National Fire Authority. National Rural Fire Officer Murray Dudfield said celebrations...
18-year-old charged with attempted murder
Mangere police have charged an 18-year-old South Auckland man with attempted murder after an incident involving a firearm early yesterday.Detective Sergeant Ross Ellwood said officers had also recovered a shotgun and ammunition.The...
Held Kiwi `in good shape`
A former NZ soldier arrested for his alleged involvement in a custody kidnapping in Lebanon is understood to be in good physical condition and has been given legal advice.Formal charges are not likely to be laid until after Christmas,...
Xmas night drunks attack police staff
Papakura police had to call in reinforcements from neighbouring police districts on Christmas Day after officers dealing with a drunk were attacked by a large crowd of people.Inspector Kerry Watson said there were several arrests...
Weather the only handicap for racing`s fashion stakes runners
While some of the country`s top horses compete for more than $700,000 in prize money at the annual Boxing Day races, a competition of an entirely different sort is taking place off the Ellerslie race track.Traditionally Auckland`s...
Road toll on target for 43-year low
The road toll for 2006 could finish below 400 deaths for the first time in 43 years, although the holiday season began tragically with a crash that claimed three teenage lives on Auckland`s Northwestern Motorway early on Christmas...
Homicide inquiry after body found in Otara
A homicide inquiry has been launched this morning after a body was found in Otara, south Auckland.Police said few details were available, including the age or gender of the body.A house in Fisher Crescent, Otara, had been...
Computer games blamed for teen road deaths
Computer games and cavalier attitudes are being seen as the reason youths are dying on the roads.Three Auckland teenagers were killed when the vehicle they were in crashed off the Northwestern Motorway in Auckland during a high-speed...
Boxing Day sales underway
If you were waiting for today`s Boxing Day sales to buy late Christmas presents, you could be chancing it.The Retailers Association says Boxing Day sales are becoming an increasingly significant part of the retail calendar and...
Police name 15-year-old killed in crash
Police have released the name of a young woman who was killed in a crash in suburban Hamilton.Allysha Arihi Nepe, 15, died along with a 24-year-old man, whose name is yet to be released, when the car they were passengers in crashed...
People quick to get rid of their unwanted presents
Before the wrapping paper was put away and the leftovers attacked on Boxing Day, people had got in early looking to make a buck or two from their unwanted Christmas presents.By 9am today, there were already plenty for sale on...
Possums may hold key to male prostate problems
Horny possums may hold the key scientists have been looking for to help treat some prostrate problems in men.Scientists at AgResearch and the Otago Medical School believe the prostate gland in the bush-tailed possum is anatomically...
Carried downstairs to tears of Christmas joy
Arthur Broome`s best-ever Christmas present was hand-delivered by two ambulance officers as they carefully carried his wife, Barbara, wrapped in a sheet, down a flight of stairs in the couple`s Takanini home.Mr Broome, 75, had...
Man being hunted after woman found dead in bed
A person is being hunted by police after a woman died in a Christmas row which turned to tragedy.The body of a 41-year-old woman was found in an Otara house in south Auckland today by family members.She had serious injuries.Police...
Chilly New Year on the way
Don`t pack away the winter gear just yet, there is one more cold snap on the way just in time for the new year.Summer officially started on December the first, but the month has been full of cold, wet and windy weather.MetService...
Teenager rescued after fall in Golden Bay
A Takaka policeman had to climb down a three-metre drop to splint the badly broken leg of a teenager who fell down a hole on Peacock Rock in Golden Bay yesterday.The 15-year-old boy had been camping with his Christchurch family...
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