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Stuff • 19th November 2019

Flour and eggs causing a sticky mess for residents in Wellington

Pranksters lobbing eggs and flour bombs across Wellington, with some smashing windows and damaging cars and homes, have caught the eye of police. Officers are investigating a number of incidents across the city and beyond, with the most recent attack...

Stuff • 17th November 2019

New TVNZ documentary looks at the struggles surrounding conception

Teresa and David Hill are part of TVNZ's new six-part documentary, Inconceivable. First comes love, then comes marriage, and then comes ... waiting? Teresa Hill and her husband David have been selected to appear on TVNZ's new show Inconceivable,...

Stuff • 17th November 2019

A special birthday with music in mind

When Parkinson's robbed Jim Oliver of his speaking voice a year ago, he didn't know he would gain a singing voice. He joined the SoundsWell Singers - a Wellington choir for people with neurological conditions - and now, far from being...

1 NEWS NOW • 15th November 2019

Health board denies claims autistic man living in isolation after petition presented to Parliament

A district health board manager has denied claims that some clients are living in isolation or seclusion in mental health inpatient services. The comments follow a petition presented to Parliament yesterday by Autism Action New Zealand Zealand and...

15th November 2019

So long, angel of Harlem

'Blinded, you lost your way in the side streets and the alleyways. Like a star exploding in the night, Filling up the city with broad daylight. You never looked like an angel.' Teresa had just finished cooking her fifth batch of Bolognese, which...

Stuff • 15th November 2019

Soil from Wellington Harbour dredge could be used for airport runway extension

The sediment from a harbour dredge could be used for the Wellington Airport extension. CentrePort has confirmed the possibility of material from its proposed harbour dredge being used for the Wellington Airport runway extension. The port company is...

15th November 2019

The cult that's infiltrated NZ schools, campuses and churches

Reverend Dr Carolyn Kelly works as a chaplain at the University of Auckland, where she says Providence was “recruiting under my nose”. She describes the sect’s modus operandi as “an entire faith fabric and intense friendships built on manipulation and...

15th November 2019

The last four months

This one’s here to stay. He lives in Westchester, and is an entrepreneur made good, married, with two wholly American children. He’s a kiwi success story. He doesn’t have to worry about his Visa expiring. Drinking a beer, he’s able to dismiss the...

15th November 2019

A funny thing happened on the way to nirvana

I remember it like it was yesterday. The year was 2007. As a man once said, it was a very good year. Nelly Furtado's 'Say it Right' was on the charts. My friend Erin and I, inspired by 'The Motorcycle Diaries', were dreaming of traveling across...

15th November 2019

Rachel and me

The Yiddish Vaudevillian with the Madeline Kahn charm and singing voice and the Mae West swagger opened her Radio City Music Hall set with a pun. ‘There’s a f**kton of people here. Are there any JEWS in the house? “It’s so packed in here, we might...

Sojourners • 1st July 2018

Young and Bold — New York Marches Against Trump's Immigration Policies

More than 10,000 protesters gathered at Foley Square in downtown Manhattan Saturday morning to march against the Trump administration’s immigration policies that have resulted in the separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The New York...

Channel 39 • 22nd March 2018

Cadbury factory shuts down in Dunedin

Channel 39 • 10th January 2018

Deportation ruling sends children back to South Africa

Otago Daily Times • 9th June 2017

Boney M add acts after outcry

Promoters have added three opening acts to Boney M's current New Zealand tour after accusations they didn't play for long enough. The German pop group outraged fans when they opened their tour of New Zealand with a 50-minute concert in Dunedin. For...

Otago Daily Times • 3rd May 2017

Korean 'cult' recruiting in Dunedin

A South Korean religious group known as Elohim, and described by some as a cult, is operating in Dunedin. The Roslyn Presbyterian Church, in Highgate, has been the Dunedin headquarters of the World Mission Society of God church since 2012. It...

Channel 39 • 4th April 2017

String quartet fundraises for Syria

Channel 39 • 22nd March 2017

Judging begins for Emerging Designers

Channel 39 • 27th January 2017

Nobel prize winner visits Dunedin symposium

RNZ • 28th October 2016

NZ unionist remembered as a fighter for Pacific rights

One of New Zealand's leading trade unionists has been remembered as a tenacious fighter for workers' rights across the entire Pacific region. Helen Kelly, who until last year was the president of the Council of Trade Unions, died a fortnight ago of...