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[ad_1] Finlay Dunseath/Stuff Fire crews respond to a flat fire at the Hanson Court apartment blocks in Newtown on Sunday afternoon. Residents have been evacuated from a Newtown apartment complex after a fire engulfed a flat. Fire and Emergency were notified of a fire in a flat at the Hanson Court apartments in Newtown about Read more…

[ad_1] ANDY MACDONALD/Stuff The Taranaki women’s open final was decided by a meaure in the last end. A Waikato side skipped impressively by Denise Te Momo won the Taranaki women’s Open fours title at Paritutu on Sunday evening. Te Momo’s side of Judy Marr, Lynda Bennett and Katrina Ensor, representing the Pirongia club, won the Read more…

[ad_1] Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images Black Ferns Sevens speedster Stacey Fluhler and her team-mates celebrated a 41-0 victory over Ireland in their World Series semifinal. Both New Zealand sevens teams have booked their places in the finals of the World Series tournament, to be played in Sydney on Sunday night. The All Blacks Sevens men’s team Read more…

[ad_1] Supplied NZ Post expects deliveries to return to normal on Tuesday. (File photo) NZ Post expects deliveries to return to normal on Tuesday after it suspended operations in Auckland on Friday when the local State of Emergency was declared. “Across the regions our sites, transport and teams are in good shape and are ready Read more…

[ad_1] Supplied Police have located Charles Scott, 74, who went missing from Marton on Friday. Police say a man reported missing from the Rangitīkei has been “located safe and well”. Charles Scott, 74, was reported missing from Marton, and a post on the Manawatū, Taranaki, Whanganui-Ruapehu Police Facebook page at 7.30pm on Friday said police Read more…

[ad_1] A Mid-Canterbury business owner is up in arms at roadworks starting without consultation that will limit access for months, and potentially permanently. Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency contractors have started installing the in-road scales in Rakaia, between Christchurch and Ashburton, as part of a split-site Commercial Vehicle Safety Centre, previously called weigh stations, just Read more…

[ad_1] Stuff Flights were cancelled at Auckland Airport after a plane hit runway lights and water flooded the terminal. More details have emerged about a dramatic plane landing that delayed multiple flights at Auckland International Airport. A Boeing 777 from Melbourne lost control during wind gusts and torrential rain on Friday, damaging the plane’s undercarriage Read more…

[ad_1] RICKY WILSON/Stuff Police responded to a single-vehicle crash in Spring Creek, Marlborough, about 4.05pm on Sunday. Two people have been injured following a crash on State Highway 1 in Marlborough on Sunday afternoon. Police responded to the single-vehicle crash near the Wairau River Bridge on SH1, Spring Creek, about 4.05pm. READ MORE:* Marlborough news Read more…

[ad_1] Supplied Daniel Newth was out kayaking in floodwater when he got swept into storm drains on Auckland’s North Shore. The 25-year-old man who died kayaking in Auckland floodwater was surfer and nature lover Daniel Newth, of Sunnynook. Newth was out with his kayak on Friday, as floodwater raged down the street near his North Read more…

[ad_1] ALDEN WILLIAMS/Stuff Jahn Pomare-Karetai, 14, goes big on technique in the mānu competition at Te Pou Toetoe: Linwood Pool on Sunday. Water is dripping from the ceiling and sloshing out of the dedicated mānu pool at Christchurch’s Te Pou Toetoe: Linwood Pool. Jahn Pomare-Karetai​ has just performed a high-scoring mānu or bomb, which has Read more…