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📢 Months after a report revealed 25% of staff had experienced sexual harassment, Corrections has been slow to tackle its culture problem, union says.

📢 Writer recalls evening at now-convicted sex offender’s mansion

📢 One night in June 1983, masked gunmen burst into the Kong family home near Oamaru and abducted 14-year-old Gloria Kong. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

📢 The woman’s friend posted a video on TikTok saying a male employee at Mobile Planet in an Auckland mall had tried to send himself the photos.

📢 Dozens of letters presented to court helped disgraced arts patron get reduced sentence.

📢 The trio were arrested trying to leave New Zealand after fleecing cash and jewellery from unsuspecting victims in a scam that a judge called “abhorrent”.

📢 The Artful Dodger is about the case of disgraced arts patron James Wallace and some big questions it raised. Co-producer Kate Langdon explains why she wanted to investigate and what she learned.

📢 These intersections could be unusable and “really dangerous” at times.

📢 A woman’s spinal surgery was repeatedly delayed after she was downgraded from 'urgent' to 'elective'.

📢 Christchurch’s new stadium at Te Kaha is set to open in April 2026, with ratepayers covering costs for the next 30 years. So should ratepayers get cheap tickets in return? 👉 Latest bot: Bluesky AI Bot Mention me in your post to involve me as your AI bot.

📢 Money and assets seized from criminals and put in the Proceeds of Crime Fund will be available to applications focused on reducing violent crime 👉 Latest bot: NZ Transport Agency - Auckland & Northland

📢 She forced a boy to eat dog faeces and used toilet paper. She also subjected him to beatings with weapons.

📢 Wild kiwi populations in Rodney are thriving after years of work being done by community-led conservation groups to reduce pest populations.

📢 With the future of the Panmure sign hanging in the balance, a community group has hit out at the Local Board for a lack of transparency. 👉 Latest bot: Bluesky AI Bot Mention me in your post to involve me as your AI bot.

📢 It was withdrawn because of developer investment uncertainty, project delays and approval conditions not satisfied within time frames.

📢 Police apprehend suspect involved in attack that left one man dead and another critically injured.

📢 The family is now navigating co-ownership and allege there have been difficulties with access and control of their beloved bach.

📢 The man, named only as Joseph, was involved in an accident on Tihoi Road/SH32 on Wednesday and hasn’t been since. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

📢 Thousands of eels died in a Southland stream after it ‘’ran black’’ with effluent, and the ecological harm was significant and likely to be intergenerational.

📢 After shooting a gang member outside Christmas church service, the gunman and his partner fabricated an attack on their home in a desperate bid to keep his name secret.

📢 With two letterboxes with the same number on the same road, it’s understandable how things could go wrong.

📢 Anthony, a homeless resident of the capital who describes himself as “a Bear Grylls”, says it is noticeable that people have less to give.

📢 Dementia patients are “the best singers,” says Peter Brophy, 91, who is constantly amazed at his gigs.

📢 Avishek Chaudhary agreed to fight a stranger at a busy Christchurch intersection. Then he reached for a pair of scissors.

📢 Locals have applied for a resource consent for a rock wall to protect homes from coastal erosion, but were shocked to discover a council policy allowing the wall to be removed at any time, and that they would have to front up a bond to pay for it.

📢 Under Local Water Done Well, the council will not be able to fund its water infrastructure with its Port Marlborough dividends as it does now.

📢 Jairam’s Dairy & Flower Shop was first opened in 1915 and has become an icon of Ponsonby Road.

📢 The road worker ended up with a large purple welt on her leg, and no longer feels safe working on Southland roadsides, a court has heard.

📢 Surfer who paddled to the rescue attempted CPR on his board, before help arrived to take him to shore.

📢 “I’ve been through hell,” says worker who claims she was harassed, defamed and assaulted after refusing to bring in contraband cigarettes. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

📢 A “high-risk event” was sparked by council staff clicking on phishing email and entering credentials into a fake website. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

📢 With Audit NZ yet to issue its opinion on the document, it won’t be until Wednesday that the proposed rates increase would be known publicly. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

📢 An $85,000 project to find and rehome skinks near a stretch of State Highway 3 just outside New Plymouth has found just one animal since it began. 👉 More news/weather bots

📢 Tiktoker and food blogger Bryer Roden, 25, grew up in Upper Hutt but says its mall lacks shops that young people like her would like, and says it is often empty.

📢 The exodus of a 25-year-old shop in a once ‘buzzing and thriving’ mall upset locals, but the mall says ‘it’s not Robinson Crusoe’ in retail’s challenges, and has new developments in the pipeline 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

📢 A casino funded its charitable arm $2.2 million over two decades, but that funding model is set to change. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates

📢 Wellington Water’s chair says they need money to get management systems in place, despite reports saying they have cost ratepayers thousands.

📢 Mia Edmonds waived her right to automatic suppression to be able to speak more freely about her abuser.

📢 When Mia Edmonds learned the convicted rapist and sex offender who attacked her and five others had gone on to sexually abuse a 13-year-old girl, she vomited.

📢 Nolan Rangi Maru, a member of Rongomaiwahine Iwi Trust, died in a single-vehicle crash in Wairoa last week.

📢 The Deputy Health & Disability Commissioner found that a drug and alcohol addiction treatment provider breached care standards due to inadequate documentation, lack of structured aftercare, and a conflict of interest.

📢 Just two months after serving his ‘lucky break’ sentence of home detention for sexually assaulting six girls, Luca Fairgray began an illegal relationship with a 13-year-old.

📢 “Disgusting and dangerous”: Children who reached the bottom of their lunch discovered the plastic container had melted into their food. 👉 Report issues, make suggestions

📢 One man died in his cell, while another was stabbed after a fight between three prisoners over the weekend. 👉 More news/weather bots

📢 A speeding driver allegedly drove at police, as two officers jumped out of the way.

📢 Police did not have far to go to identify a pot plant smashing burglar

📢 Palmerston North demolition expert Daniel Watt proved he's a cut above the rest, winning a excavator operator challenge in his debut appearance.

📢 A serious crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian has occurred on Whitemans Road near Gard Street, Silverstream, Upper Hutt.

📢 A truck has rolled on State Highway 3 forcing police to close the main route.