2024

All-round Sutherland and quick-scoring Gardner lead Australia to ODI series win

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 24, 2024

ICYMI: Good efforts from Suzie Bates and Amelia Kerr went in vain as Australia continued their winning momentumhttp://dlvr.it/TGzdSM

Champions Trophy 2025: Dubai to host all India matches, including the knockouts if India qualify

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 24, 2024

The final has been allocated to Lahore, but will be played in Dubai if India make the title…

Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipes for jewelled winter salad and chocolate orange pudding | Quick and easy

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 23, 2024

A colourful and filling warm winter salad with roast squash, butter beans and pomegranate, plus a barnstorming chocolate-orange…

Market Watch: What to expect in 2025 – and what we picked right and wrong in 2024

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 23, 2024

ICYMI: Pie Funds CIO Mike Taylor makes his annual picks for the year ahead.http://dlvr.it/TGyhsx

Sharemarket full of cheer in leadup to Christmas

New Zealand Blog News Service Dec 23, 2024

Volumes were lighter as investors are thinking more about the summer holidays.http://dlvr.it/TGyhcF

Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
Ben Uffindell
Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
Ben Uffindell
Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
Ben Uffindell
Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
Ben Uffindell
Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
Ben Uffindell
NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
Ben Uffindell
Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
Ben Uffindell
Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
Ben Uffindell
National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
Ben Uffindell
Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
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Rolleston rezone removes hurdle for Mitre 10 store July 28, 2025
Rolleston Pak'nSave. Photo: Geoff Sloan The path is clearing for Mitre 10 to set up shop next to the new Pak’nSave supermarket in Rolleston.
Teen accidentally ran over woman after failed car ram: police July 27, 2025
PHOTO: ODT FILES A Dunedin house party erupted into chaos after a teenager attempted to ram a car, missed, and ran over the vehicle’s owner instead.
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Eight cars stolen as youths lead police on high-speed chase up coast July 27, 2025
Photo: Getty Images Two teens and their 11-year-old friend spent their Sunday going on an almost 190kmh crime spree up and down the Otago coast, where they stole eight cars and evaded police spikes.
Laine Priestley
Couple leave behind trail of debt and deceit July 27, 2025
Three people killed as train derails July 27, 2025
Rescue workers search for passengers in the derailed train in the Biberach district between the districts of Zweifaltendorf and Zell. Photo: Getty Images Three people were killed and others seriously injured when a passenger train derailed in southwestern Germany today, police said in a statement.
Hastie heading to Force July 27, 2025
Departing Highlanders halfback Nathan Hastie passes the ball against the Brumbies this season. Photo: Getty Images Nathan Hastie’s career resurgence will continue away from the Highlanders.
School bus crashes after hitting black ice July 27, 2025
A school bus driver and a child are in Hawke's Bay hospital after the vehicle hit black ice and skidded into a line of trees this morning near Maraekakaho.
Fairweather disqualified in world title defence July 27, 2025
Erika Fairweather swims during the 400m freestyle heat she was disqualified in at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. Photo: Getty Images Erika Fairweather has been disqualified in her 400m freestyle world title defence.
Search resumes for missing man July 27, 2025
Roy Arbon was seen riding a bike on July 23. Photo: Police Police are continuing the search for Roy Arbon who is still missing on the West Coast.
Investigation into 'suspicious' fires under way July 27, 2025
Police are investigating several suspicious scrub fires in Canterbury over the weekend.

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All-round Sutherland and quick-scoring Gardner lead Australia to ODI series win

Champions Trophy 2025: Dubai to host all India matches, including the knockouts if India qualify

Rukmini Iyer’s quick and easy recipes for jewelled winter salad and chocolate orange pudding | Quick and easy

Market Watch: What to expect in 2025 – and what we picked right and wrong in 2024

Sharemarket full of cheer in leadup to Christmas

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