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Acting Prime Minister Bill English's ministerial convoy broke two laws while waiting for him to get a haircut. His Crown limo was parked on broken yellow lines and his security guards partially parked their Holden Commodore across a mobility parking...

Fla. —  A 22-year-old is in a coma at a local hospital with swine flu and her prematurely born baby is dead. Claudia Hernandez was eight months pregnant and diagnosed with swine flu last week. She was admitted to a Palm...

Deans says the key challenge for the Wallabies is ‘‘putting the ball down over the line. Once we stumble over ... , the habit will come.’’ Photo: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images Coach Robbie Deans will soon face the ARU board over...

Combining Temperature Data from Multiple Sites in Wellington In Wellington early temperature measurements were made at a site in Thorndon, but the site was relocated in 1928 to Kelburn. The Kelburn site is colder because it is about 120m higher...

Chief executive Kevin Snee said the public should see a GP or local accident and medical centre for minor illnesses and injuries in the first instance. In the case of chest pain or acute medical emergency the public should always...

Inventories are at the right size for the first time in a long while, and the quality of the inventory is much higher, with an improved mix of current season stock,” van Rij said. “The Profit Improvement Programme has squeezed...

New Zealanders make good decisions," said Coalition secretary, Terry Dunleavy.

The butt jointed construction of some 44 turbines at Te Rere Hau failed in IEC testing which, when repeated, turned out to have been "loaded to a considerably higher level than was intended or calculated at the time". "The Expert...

Contact Energy Ltd, the listed electricity and gas supplier, announced today it was outsourcing up to 60 back office retail processing jobs from its Lower Hutt process centre to one of the fastest growing companies in the Middle East and...

Given that an effective scheme was already in place, Grey Power consider it a waste of public money, time and resources to bin one course with a view to starting from scratch with research and consultation for a new scheme...The...