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THE former Firepower boss, Tim Johnston, was last night facing a warrant for his arrest after a Federal Court judge rejected his excuses for skipping a hearing in Perth last week. Mr Johnston, whose failed company promoted a ''super pill''...

Graeme Samuel has cited the cost to motorists in blocking a $300 million deal under which Caltex would have dominated the Australian fuel market by acquiring 302 service stations from arch rival Mobil. Caltex would have pumped an extra 1.8...

Marton police want to speak to a 21-year-old local man over a number of burglaries at a property in the town. They are looking for Patrick Norman Marsh, who was due to appear in the Wanganui District Court this morning...

Northland MP John Carter is denying he was personally responsible for a select committee's decision to insert clauses into a government bill which will allow a local boatbuilder to use public land as a slipway. The Green Party has accused...

Attorney-General Chris Finlayson has confirmed the Judicial Conduct Commissioner, Sir David Gasgoigne is investigating. The commissioner has now received a copy of last Friday's Supreme Court decision in which the court said Justice Wilson should not have sat as one...

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David Campese has accused the IRB of losing touch with the game after they ignored growing calls to make law changes to help revitalise rugby in time for the 2011 World Cup. And All Blacks skipper Richie McCaw, one of...

Alice Sebold�s novel is one of those great books where you don�t know what to expect; it is a tough, thrilling, emotional story...What we attempted to do is to present an afterlife that is evocative, elusive and ephemeral. It is...

The New Zealand Drug Foundation says it is deeply concerned about a new drug being touted as an alternative treatment for addiction. Ibogaine is a psychoactive compound derived from the root of an African shrub. Drug Foundation executive director Ross...