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Whangarei developer drops appeal, quits subdivision on sacred Maori land
The controversial 93-home development at Onoke Heights, Te Kamo, is now at a dead end.

Formula 1 championship leader crashes in Saudi GP qualifying
Lando Norris will start 10th on the grid at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after crashing out in the third and final phase of qualifying.

Should stores close on Easter Sunday?
Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn Young said it was time the legislation changed.

Police hail 'game changer' Missing Persons Map
A new nationwide interactive map documents the last known location of people who have gone missing in the last 50 years.

‘It’s bloody rude’: Hawke’s Bay cyclone victims hit with unexpected rates
Wairoa residents see property values halved, yet face higher rates.

Horse racing: Doctor Askar adds Easter to stunning sequence
Doctor Askar rose to the challenge and scored another narrow win.

On The Up: Tauranga hub for McAlpine Hussmann NZ gets city leaders’ big tick
McAlpine Hussman NZ officially opens new centralised Tauranga hub.

Bottles thrown at police confronting boy racers in Hutt Valley, Wellington
Police pelted with bottles breaking up reckless boy racer meets in Hutt Valley.

Rugby’s greatest talent was never fulfilled
To this day he remains the closest thing the sport has seen to Jonah Lomu with the potential even to surpass the man who changed rugby forever.

Chaos in the CBD finally drop debut album: ‘A proud moment for both of us’
The Kiwi brothers who have hit 100 million streams worldwide are set to release their highly anticipated debut album.

A podcast star helped red-pill Silicon Valley - now he’s Trump’s tech tsar
Investor and longtime Musk associate is helping Trump unchain the crypto industry.

Formula 1: Liam Lawson achieves best qualifying result of 2025, to start 12th in Saudi Arabia
The Kiwi continues to improve on his return to Racing Bulls.

Is this New Zealand's biggest Troll collection?
Damian Sutton has about 1500 Trolls and once spent $5000 to ship a rare light blue Elephant Troll from Denmark.

Calls for rain radar in Nelson as regions vulnerability to flooding intensifies
Nelson City Council hydrologist Chris Strang says there has been an increase in storms and their unpredictability.

Thousands of poppies prepped for Palmerston North square
The thousands of felt poppies will be on display in the Palmerston North Square on 24 April.

Liam Lawson to start 12th on grid at Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
The Kiwi Racing Bulls driver edged out his French team-mate Isack Hadjar at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit.,

Food innovation: Three opportunities on the table for New Zealand
Opinion: 'We have enormous potential. Where is our thought process on that as a country?'

On The Up: The conservation heroes keeping our iconic native species alive
Some of Aotearoa’s threatened wildlife is coming back from the brink.

On The Up: Kapa haka - From Rotorua to Te Matatini to the world and back again
Kapa haka in Rotorua has allowed performers to travel the world.

Vector power outages Cyclone Tam: Beach Haven streets without power for over 50 hours, thunderstorms likely
About 50 households on Aeroview Drive and Amelia Place lost power Thursday afternoon.

Lulu Sun’s newfound confidence after steering NZ to Billie Jean King Cup history
The Kiwi tennis star and three teenagers led New Zealand to a stage no Kiwi team had reached for 32 years.