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Wind gusts of more than 100km/h in Wellington disrupted the country’s National Anzac Day Commemoration Service yesterday.

Welsh school stabbing A teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after two teachers and a pupil were stabbed at a secondary school in southwest Wales yesterday. Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed that the three victims were being treated in hospital for stab wounds following the incident at Amman Valley School, in Carmarthenshire. In a statement delivered outside the school in...

The number of New Zealanders taking cruise holidays has surged to more than 80 per cent of pre-pandemic levels but the recovery of the industry in this region is threatened by soaring costs.

MAY Friday, May 3 to Saturday, May 4: Rotorua Marathon, Energy Events Centre, Rotorua. Registration required.

After four years as a training partner in the Australian domestic competition, a fairy tale run with the Tongan netball team gave Pulse import Kelea Iongi the boost she needed.

There’s no question economic conditions are tough, but we need to keep them in historical perspective. We shouldn’t let an undue sense of doom and gloom make things worse than they need to be.

The incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise.

Adriving expert does not believe it is easier to pass a practical driver’s licence test in rural areas.

Apensioner was held hostage for two hours and subjected to a violent assault in a “dangerous and unpredictable” incident in the Bay of Plenty where police were shot at.

Around half of the remaining Israeli hostages abducted by Hamas have been killed in Gaza, an Israeli-American captive said in a rare proof-of-life video.

Quiz1 Composite, shield and cinder cone are all types of what?

Atrue test of a long-term car is not necessarily the facts-and-figures stuff, but whether we still look forward to driving it when it’s become a familiar member of the fleet and whether we truly feel sad when it goes. Our three-month BYD Dolphin gets a big tick on both counts.

Last week the Rotorua Lakes Council sent me an email inviting me to make a submission on its 10-year plan. Among other things, the council in July this year will require Lake Rotoma ratepayers to pay $45,000 for a sewerage scheme we neither needed nor asked for.

When you ask Dame Lisa Carrington about what could be achieved at the 2024 Olympics, her answer is simple and emphatic.

When a 12-year-old surfer came within touching distance of a shark at Omanu Beach, his first reaction was to stay calm and quietly lead his younger brother away from danger.

Thousands of people turned out for the Anzac Day Dawn Service at Mount Maunganui yesterday.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

Some of our tech industry’s biggest names have sent a letter to Technology Minister Judith Collins as millions in public funding to boost the cloud software sector is about to expire.

Farming, mining and other industrial regulations are being scrapped or amended under the first changes to the Resource Management Act.

New Zealand will send its largest-ever women’s canoe sprint team to the Olympic Games, led by the country’s most successful Olympian, Dame Lisa Carrington.

Arebound in kiwifruit and apple exports after Cyclone Gabrielle’s devastation helped propel New Zealand into a trade surplus in March.

The Gold Coast Titans have fought bravely in the past fortnight but still sat 0-6 as they headed across for the Tasman for an Anzac Day clash with the Warriors.

War aid bill passes The Senate has passed US$95 billion ($159b) in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to US President Joe Biden after months of delays and debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. The bill passed the Senate on an overwhelming 79-18 vote yesterday after the House had approved the package on Sunday. Biden said after passage he

In October 2023, Hockey New Zealand (HNZ) called for financial backers for four new franchises to form a Premier Hockey League (PHL).

A salmon farm in the Mackenzie district says using electric tuk-tuks on its canals has been so successful, it’s going to get more.

Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55 per cent as falling global sales and price cuts sliced into the electric vehicle maker’s revenue and profit margins.

When ChatGPT first burst into the mainstream just over a year ago, Genesis staff were as keen as anyone to try it out at work.

Smash-it-up places, sometimes known as “rage rooms” (as featured recently in the Herald) are on the rise.

Lest we forget, we say every year. Lest we forget, we will say today too. But as the years go by, are we forgetting?

Arms sale arrests Two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged with participating in a conspiracy to sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment in Libya, Canadian police said. RCMP spokesman Sergeant Charles Poirier said the alleged offences occurred between 2018 and 2021, when the two men were working at the International Civil Aviation Organisation, a UN agency...