Wellington Water's new chief executive says fixing recurring leaks is not a good use of money, with at least a break per day in the pipe network since he started.
For decades, their cries went unheard, but in a moment of long-awaited justice, five brothers stood together as their “sadistic” father was finally sentenced for the historic abuse that scarred their childhoods and haunted their lives.
A mother says she bargained with God to save her teenager’s life in the aftermath of a sexual assault that was almost the undoing of her already vulnerable daughter.
Southern MPs clashed in Parliament yesterday during an urgent debate on the Dunedin hospital cuts, the government’s announcement being either a callous betrayal or fiscal responsibility.
A couple say they will fight to stop the Crown from taking ownership of two properties, worth $1.7 million, after one of them was caught growing cannabis for the sake of their daughter who has now "lost her future".
A distressed man held on to a bus as it drove off, trying to stop the driver from leaving after begging him to call the police on several passengers he claimed had stolen his phone.