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Dolphin pod makes splash

Local fisherman captures huge pod on film

Wellington fisherman and diver Kevin Ransfield was nearing Karori Lighthouse yesterday morning when a large pod of dolphins surrounded his boat. 
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Rail safety slammed

1:40pm KiwiRail is introducing random drug tests as a report reveals a worker involved in a near miss had cannabis in his system.

Woman left on couch for three years

9 min ago An elderly woman is alleged to have been left tied to furniture by her own daughter.

Derailment part of 'worrying trend'

Train derails 2 min ago Councillors have questioned whether KiwiRail has learned from past incidents, following Monday's train derailment.

Truck rolls on State Highway 1

1:48pm A light truck rolled on State Highway 1 between Johnsonville and Porirua this afternoon.

Plea to keep coasts sewage-free

1:18pm More investment in infrastructure is needed to stop sewage discharges, residents say.

Chickenpox vaccine stocks run dry

Vaccination An unexpected rush of immunisations has seen New Zealand medical centres run out of a chickenpox vaccine.

Keith Spry pool's $6m spruce-up

A $6 million upgrade of Johnsonville's Keith Spry Pool is about to begin.

Super-city ahead

Suit faced over late partner's estate

John Morrison

Morrison enters mayoral race

Veteran Wellington councillor and former New Zealand cricketer John Morrison has declared his mayoral candidacy.

Final test for new electricity link

electricity 300 State-owned national grid company Transpower's $600 million interisland link, the Pole 3 project, will finally be commissioned next week, just in time for winter.

Fletcher keeps investors on side

Fletcher Building has reconfirmed its earning guidance for the 2013 financial year, encouraging the investor community.

Property funds' boards seek merger

Property manager bullish as profit lifts

Ecoya

Ecoya ignited under Trilogy name

Listed candle maker and skincare company Ecoya's flame has burned out as it announced it had changed its name to Trilogy International Ltd.

Police actions branded unlawful

Ruatoki Children had rifles pointed at them and were kept under armed guard in a shed for nine hours in the Urewera police raids. + Key's safe visit

Novopay debacle's $3.5m bill

The Novopay bungle has cost taxpayers nearly $3.5 million in extra staffing.

ACC advocate 'declares war'

A dearth of election-year sweeties

Nick Smith

Smith gives big mine a leg up

Conservation Minister Nick Smith has approved a land-access deal for opencast mining on conservation land on the Denniston Plateau.

Urewera travesty not unnoticed

Operation Eight Unlawful, unreasonable, unjustified. Those words appear 77 times in the Independent Police Conduct Authority report on Operation Eight. There should have been no mention of them at all.

Left holding the baby

Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta has fired a broadside at Parliament's rules after she found herself stuck with her baby.

A dearth of election-year sweeties

Wondering what you missed

Rachel Hunter

Time etched on all our faces

Let me tell you what my spectacle frames have in common with Rachel Hunter – weirdness around the eyes.

The mana from Havana

chucho valdez Revered Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes plays Wellington for the first time next month. He tells Tom Cardy why music always mattered.

Film Review: The Queen's Sister

One of the most maddening and yet almost unbearably touching biopics imaginable is The Queen's Sister, Rialto, Monday, re-screening on Saturday.

Wellington galleries not doomed

Tenacious D came to rock

black city lights

Black City Lights release single

Listen here to the new single by Wellington's Black City Lights.

My favourite table: Kazu

kazu After a night on stage I like to swap the low lights of the theatre for the low lighting of my favourite haunt, Kazu.

Sizzling seafood for waterfront

Simon Gault has a vision that his Crab Shack eatery in Wellington will be a first for New Zealand

Sirocco to return to Wellington

Timelapse shows vibrant city

shalimar

Camera turned on dairy

The Shalimar Mini Market in Aro Valley has become such an institution that it is now about to be the subject of a documentary film.

Phoenix name assistant coach

Chris Greenacre The Wellington Phoenix have wasted no time in naming the assistant to their new head coach Ernie Merrick.

Wilkins bouncing back from battering

Central Pulse goal attack Donna Wilkins might have been "battered" by Northern Mystics defender Julie Corletto but, thankfully, she isn't broken.

Long time between drinks

Wilson the exception - NNZ

Trent Boult

Boult follows through on promise

Trent Boult was so confident of lording it over England skipper Alastair Cook, he predicted he'd nick him out four times in the series.

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