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    Top-tier law firm Bell Gully has applied to place a Covid-19 testing company linked to Australian man Kody Jenkins into liquidation.

  • Taranaki iwi struggling to heat homes

    A significant number of whānau from a Taranaki iwi are struggling to heat their homes and are living in the cold, says Ngāti Maru’s chief executive.

  • Kiwibank is Govt’s obvious fix

    The Government has a very simple lever it can pull if it thinks there’s a competition problem with banks.

  • Pitch invaders condemned

    Former All Black Israel Dagg is calling on Kiwi crowds to boo pitch invaders rather than cheer them after a Warriors NRL game in his home region was marred by at least a dozen people running across the ground.

  • Queenstown Airport consulting on $350m expansion

    Queenstown Airport will cater for the evolution to hydrogen and battery-powered aircraft as part of a $350million upgrade to its Frankton terminal grounds.

  • Cloud power Scientists have created a cloud device that can harvest clean electricity from the humidity in air. The fingernail-sized contraption, Air-gen, is made from a material filled with holes less than a thousandth of the width of a human hair. The nanopores make clean power by harvesting the energy from electrically-charged water in the air that passes through them. Essentially, the device harnesses the power in clouds that make lightning. Dr Jun Yao, the senior author from Massachusetts University, said: “What we’ve done is to create a human-built, small-scale cloud that produces electricity for us predictably and continuously so that we can harvest it.” The technique can be scaled up for use in numerous different environments.

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  • The Chow brothers’ property empire is in “better shape than many” to ride out the downturn and survive what for many developers are crippling finance costs, according to John Key.

  • THE PREMIUM DEBATE Soft-on-crime Labour blamed

    The mother of a teen injured at an illegal car meet is relieved after Bay of Plenty police impounded 12 cars and arrested three people in a street racer sting on Saturday night.

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