Couple caught in credit trap
It started with an $800 loan for car tyres; now a Porirua couple face having to sell their home.The fast and the faster
2:23pm One driver was 17, the other 18. One, travelling at 150kmh, was too slow for the other, who overtook at 179kmh.
Damage as weather turns bitter
1:50pm Hole opens up at Dunedin beach and a Wellington window blows out with worse to come.
Drag accused in court
Accused in kidnapping during which a woman was dragged along a road appears in court and is remanded in custody.
Food in schools to target neediest
The taxpayer will foot a chunk of the bill for food in schools, and corporate sponsors will help.
Family man faces cocaine jail
A man found guilty on cocaine charges has been told it wouldn't be fair on his family to raise any hope of home detention.
Man bit woman's nipple
A 22-year-old Balclutha man bit a woman's nipple after she asked him to stop during consensual kissing and touching.
Pipe bashing terror
Woman 'attacked with metal pipe'
Iwi CEO takes seat candidacy
Iwi chief executive Meka Whaitiri will be Labour's candidate in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti by-election on June 29.
Today in politics: Monday May 27, 2013
Two polls have confirmed a strong lead for National.
RMA fears 'scaremongering'
National looking up
Why parties tolerate Peters
Call it the prisoner's dilemma or call it power over principle.
State schools review religious classes
God has been pulled from dozens of state schools as experts call for children to be taught about a wider range of faiths.
School vets pupils' social media
A primary school took to monitoring pupils' social media sites after it became concerned about their online activity.
Enraged pupil prompts police help
Four Chch schools to close
Novopay debacle's $3.5m bill
The Novopay bungle has cost taxpayers nearly $3.5 million in extra staffing.
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'Don't test party pills on animals'
New Zealand will fly in the face of international animal welfare conventions if it allows legal highs to be tested on animals.
Adult bouncy castle injuries rise
No matter how many chardonnays you've had, keep off that bouncy castle you hired for the kids' birthday party.
Four-hour wait to get stitched up
Photo pushes rush on vaccine
Surgeon in probe quits
The surgeon at the centre of a criminal investigation into botched surgery has resigned.
Farmers keen to sell
Strong appetite to sell economic rights to wet shares back to Fonterra means the offer will be scaled.
Blocked fruit costs growers too
Apple growers are joining the queue for compensation from the Government after produce was blocked on its way into Russia.
Stock demand high
Water 'taken for granted'
Southerners score top dairy prize
Southland sharemilkers Don and Jess Moore have picked up one of the most coveted titles in dairy farming.
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