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  • Police Officer accidentally killed student

    View Photo Associated Press/Sleepy Hollow High School - In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rubello is shown. Police said Rubello, a junior at Hofstra ...

  • Zombie tourism heading to Auckland

    Raising money to raise the dead is the aim of a trio of Australians intent on building a New Zealand-based zombie tourism company. Apocalypse Events Ltd was founded in February, and is gearing up to stage its first zombie apocalypse somewhere in Auckland in the coming months, with paying customers taking up roles as either the last remnants of humanity fighting for their survival, or one of ...

  • England v New Zealand – live | Rob Bagchi and John Ashdown

    First hour on Sunday will be crucial, says Root Joe Root said that the first hour on Sunday would be crucial if England were to get on top of New ...

  • Blue whales may be feeding in NZ waters

    The biggest creature on the planet seems to have taken a liking to New Zealand waters. NIWA scientists studying the blue whale say the massive marine mammal may be feeding in local waters, rather than just passing through. "In the southern hemisphere, there are only four documented foraging grounds outside Antarctic waters, so if in fact this is a blue whale foraging ground it's ...

  • Child pornographer to be deported to New Zealand

    Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. Photo / Thinkstock A child pornographer who took photos of his children's friends is the latest criminal who will be deported to New Zealand from Australia. Jeffrey Frank Chadwick was jailed in 2011 after he was found guilty of 18 pornography-related charges. He took dozens of ...

Movie Review

Silent Running [DVD]

Some three decades after its unsuccessful theatrical release and later elevation to cult status, Douglas Trumbull's Silent Running is terribly dated, but still intriguing didactic science fiction. Taking place in the early years of the 21st century, it posits a time in which all plant life on earth has been destroyed, and the only remaining traces of vegetation are in carefully nurtured for ... ...

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  • Light session for All Blacks at camp

    It was all indoors and mostly non-physical on the opening day of the first All Blacks wider training group camp in Mt Maunganui today. With the Highlanders in South Africa and the Crusaders and Blues exempted from the gym work, having played the previous night, it was all fairly low key as the All Blacks selectors went over game plans with players for next month's three-test series ...

  • Help me bring my boy home

    . "All I want to do is pick that little boy up and take him out of that shithole and pop him next to his granddad so we can go and see him every day . . . give him a Christian burial. "What do I do? Put it in my will to be buried at Pike River, so I am buried next to my son, my only son . . . the only son I will ever have?" Joseph died just one day after his 17th ...

  • About-face means more choc in block

    Cadbury has fired the latest salvo in the Kiwi chocolate wars, backtracking on an earlier decision to cut the size of their family range of chocolate blocks. Tomorrow the company will unveil a new-look chocolate block that is 10 per cent bigger and features larger, rounder pieces. The 200g block will be increased to 220g for the same price. Managing director Alastair de Raadt said ...

  • Earthquake rattles the south

    A shallow earthquake has struck west of Te Anau in the deep south. Centred 25km from Te Anau, at 8.22pm GeoNet reports the 4.3 magnitude quake hit at a depth of 5km. It was believed to have been widely felt in the deep ...

  • Man dead woman wounded in Northland shooting

    A 38-year-old man will appear in the Kaitaia District Court tomorrow charged with murder. A 44-year-old man was killed and a 38-year-old woman critically injured after a shooting in Fairburn, just east of Kaitaia, this morning. Police have a team of 22 officers investigating "a serious incident involving a firearm" that occurred in the rural location. The man was found ...

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