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.
Israel has rejected global calls for a ceasefire with Hezbollah, defying the US and pressing ahead with strikes that have killed hundreds in Lebanon and heightened fears of an all-out regional war.
The next generation of New Zealand hip-hop dancers took centre stage in Queenstown yesterday afternoon, in the 2024 hip-hop Unite New Zealand Schools Championships.
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.