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Bereft mum's warning

Asthma can become deadly so quickly

When Jane Temel watched her nine-year-old son die of asthma she had the option of getting "bitter or better".
Charlie Temel

Partygoers turn on cop

Alcohol 200x150 5:00am Four people were arrested after an alleged assault on a police officer attending a noisy party.

Mystery as China blocks NZ meat

5:00am The bill could skyrocket if tonnes of NZ meat continues to be blocked at China's borders.

Recidivist robber avoids life in prison

5:00am A man with more than 100 convictions has escaped being locked up for life.

Bake-off sends Krauts home

5:00am There was no culinary disaster but one of MasterChef's top contenders was still booted out.

Mother just wants answers

5:00am He went missing nearly four months ago but Leighton Grant's mother won't stop trying to find him.

Expressway exits limit choices

People living at both ends of the McKays to Peka Peka section of the Kapiti expressway could face longer trips in some directions after it is built, which has some of them questioning the logic.

Trustees to receive $14.5m boost

Boards of trustees at the most isolated schools will finally be given training after a much-needed $14.5 million increase.

Real estate summit boosts capital

Family torn apart by fatal shooting

Warwick Bennett

Featherston 'should go it alone'

Featherston should secede from the tyranny of its bigger Wairarapa neighbours and go it alone, one long-term resident believes.

Poacher turning game-keeper?

Sean Morgan A New Zealander convicted and imprisoned for fraud on two continents says he has become a 'fraud-buster'.

NZSki rumoured to buy Cardrona

Secrecy surrounds the imminent sale of Cardrona skifield near Wanaka, amid rumours that Queenstown rival NZSki is among those kicking the tyres.

Efforts to resume China meat export

Accessory based on firm footing

Cameron Bagrie

NZ heading for 'rock star status'

Economist Cameron Bagrie talks up how New Zealand will be the envy of other developed nations.

$27m for housing needy not enough

Nick Smith Housing NZ could be forced to compete with charities for public money under new policies.

US-NZ forum stops being hush-hush

There was a warning from the crew aboard the Royal New Zealand Air Force 757 before it taxied into Washington's Andrews Air Force Base.

Baby, let me follow you down (to vote)

MP gets dressing down in House

Oil protest

Making a stand on the sand

Wellingtonians have joined forces with groups in 50 countries to protest against off-shore oil drilling.

NZ's workplace toll a cause for national shame

Site of construction worker death in Napier Though our workplace safety record is three times as bad as Britain's and twice as bad as Australia's, it hardly rates a mention.

National redrawing lines on the battleground

There are two things about a Bill English speech that listeners could set their watch by.

Budget: Crescendo marks puny surplus

Budget: Stirring state house voters

Students

Editorial: Loan defaulters break 'social contract'

Education helps not just the students themselves, but also wider society. Because there is a double benefit, both the student and the taxpayer are required to contribute to the cost.

Impressive exhibition of talent

And Then It Moved The audience of And Then It Moved, NZ School of Dance Choreographic Season 2013, is taken on a journey both conceptually and physically.

TV review: New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker

Meet the best bakers in the country, New Zealand's Hottest Home Baker (Thursday, TV3) boasts, heralding the start of its fourth season. Really? I don't think so.

Review: They Might Be Giants

Kate Camp back in residence

Ella Krauts

Bake-off sends Krauts home

There was no culinary disaster but one of MasterChef's top contenders was still booted out.

A vintage year

Neill Sam Neill discusses grapes, great acting and facial hair with James Croot.

The genie of gin

From initial five-litre batches, Neil Catherall and his band of merry partners have turned Lighthouse Gin into an award-winning international brand, writes Bess Manson.

It's a matter of taste

Bright light pho-bia at Pho 68

Mike Tohill

Inspirational legacy behind collective shave

Beards and ponytails got the chop when Wellington cops put their mops on the line in the name of Child Cancer.

Barrett is keeping the faith

Beauden Barrett Beauden Barrett has rejected suggestions the Hurricanes are going backwards this season under coach Mark Hammett.

Martin injury may force change

A calf-muscle tweak suffered by an out-of-sorts Bruce Martin should force New Zealand's hand with pace attack.

Weather factor sorts the leaders

New coach for Phoenix today

Robyn Broughton

Pulse need more control

The Central Pulse players are fit, they train together enough and have the skill to succeed in the trans-Tasman Netball League.

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