January 3, 2025

Cocktail of the week: Story Cellar’s flintlocke – recipe | The good mixer

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A rum punch with a sparkling edge If you’re planning on serving this to a crowd, make up…

Spaghetti Recipes are Best for the Kitchen Table

New Zealand Blog News Service Jan 3, 2025

ICYMI: Be fulfilled with a pan of desirable taste of spaghetti pasta radiating on your dining table this…

Lunch with… Sir Russell Coutts – sailing great opens up on fierce rivalries, New Zealand’s place in the world and working with Larry Ellison

New Zealand Blog News Service Jan 3, 2025

ICYMI: ‘Let that entrepreneurial spirit shine through’: Sailing great on NZ’s future.http://dlvr.it/TH8RBn

Lunch with… Sistema founder Brendan Lindsay, the plastic-fantastic boss and rich-lister now helping other people click

New Zealand Blog News Service Jan 3, 2025

‘I don’t care if it’s Martha Stewart or the bloody Pope. I’m not taking off.’http://dlvr.it/TH8QzC

Perera ton gives Sri Lanka consolation win

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ICYMI: New Zealand came close in the 219-run chase, but Sri Lanka did enough to get a consolation…

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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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News of new medical school welcomed in Waikato July 22, 2025
Christchurch rapist brothers challenge convictions, sentences July 22, 2025
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Wheelchair user killed in Ashburton crash named July 22, 2025
Police have released the name of a wheelchair user who died after a crash involving a car in Ashburton earlier this month.
Wheelchair user killed in crash named July 22, 2025
Police have released the name of a wheelchair user who died after a crash involving a car in Ashburton earlier this month.
What is Rugby360? And could the All Blacks be involved? July 22, 2025
Ardie Savea and Scott Robertson at an All Blacks training session. Photo: Getty Images By Ross McNaughton of RNZ If the All Blacks have been approached to take part in the Rugby360 competition, they are certainly not letting on.
Young man who died after Hamilton brawl named July 22, 2025
The scene of the fatal incident in central Hamilton. Photo: RNZ Police have named the 20-year-old who died following a brawl between two groups in Hamilton early on Sunday.
Support for South Island village name change July 22, 2025
Westland mayor warns river could devastate town July 22, 2025
The rapidly aggrading bed of the Waiho (Waiau) River is now much higher than Franz Josef. Credit: LDR / Lois Williams Westland mayor Helen Lash says a $2.8 million stopbank extension at Franz Josef will do nothing to prevent a potential environmental disaster at Ōkārito, if the Waiho River stays on its present course.
Trump releases Martin Luther King assassination files July 22, 2025

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January 3, 2025

Cocktail of the week: Story Cellar’s flintlocke – recipe | The good mixer

Spaghetti Recipes are Best for the Kitchen Table

Lunch with… Sir Russell Coutts – sailing great opens up on fierce rivalries, New Zealand’s place in the world and working with Larry Ellison

Lunch with… Sistema founder Brendan Lindsay, the plastic-fantastic boss and rich-lister now helping other people click

Perera ton gives Sri Lanka consolation win

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