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The Police watchdog says officers were justified in using tasers, a dog and punches while arresting a man they thought was armed

The man was found asleep in a stolen ute in Gisborne's Tiniroto - and didn't comply when told to stay still. Despite multiple taser shots he kept reaching for what police thought was a gun - he was ...
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Selwyn District councillors have unanimously voted to retain Maori seats on the council

The representative - to be chosen by local iwi and paid the same as a councillor - will have speaking rights but not voting rights. Runanga chair Puamiria Parata-Goodall says the partnership's ...
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Mazda's being accused of greenwashing - by promoting the planting of five trees for each new car sold as a way of offsetting emissions

Lawyers for Climate Action's lodged a complaint this week with the Advertising Standards Authority. Executive director Jessica Palairet says it's great when companies try to be more eco-friendly - but ...
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A clinical placement board's been set up to ensure the health system copes as medical student numbers grow

It consists of the Universities of Auckland, Otago and Waikato, alongside Health New Zealand and the Tertiary Education Commission. With the new Waikato medical school set to add 120 places per year ...
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Search efforts have been underway, and a member of the public found the man just before six last night.

11 Mar: A person's died in hospital after an e-scooter crash in Canterbury's Twizel, 11 days ago 11 Mar: Police are still hunting an unidentified man who hit another man with a golf-club in Northern ...
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The Wellington Phoenix women have re-signed two of their import strikers

Wellington are on target for their first appearance in the A-League women's play-offs with five regular season games remaining.
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Unprecedented jet fuel prices are set to cause extensive Air New Zealand flight cancellations - affecting tens of thousands of people

The airline expects to consolidate 11-hundred flights over the next six to eight weeks - impacting about 44-thousand passengers. It expects to start notifying affected customers from today. Chief ...
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Colton Underwood and Jordan C. Brown cannot always have romantic date nights now they are parents

"So yeah, I think we have done a good job of carving out us time and our me time to take care of ourselves so we can show up for each other and show up for our family the best we can." The Traitors US ...
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Australia is sending an aircraft and personnel to the Middle East. Does this mean we are entering the war?

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is off to another Middle Eastern war, which is likely a surprise to many given how contentious the country’s involvement in the Iraq war was. The Albanese ...
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The Metropolitan Opera and London's Royal Ballet and Opera have hit out at Timothee Chalamet after he dec lared "no one cares" about their arts

The Marty Supreme actor recently took part in a conversation with his Interstellar co-star at the University of Texas and caused upset when he dismissed both ballet and opera while discussing the ...
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James Van Der Beek's nine-year-old daughter has opened up about her grief

Be like, 'No, you don't know how I feel.'" Before James died, he told Emilia to keep "believing in miracles" if the worst happened to him. She continued: "And this is hard. It's gonna be hard. And ...
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Your cat is likely to live longer if you don’t let them roam – new study

What’s less well known is allowing your domestic cat to roam outside exposes them to considerable danger – and the risk of a short life. About two-thirds of all Australian cat owners have had a cat ...