He claimed the water flowing through the Waikato River is different. Tiotia’s friend on the other side was only about “six feet away” from Tiotia, so he tried to reach him. Missing Hamilton man Aydan Brown was found during the search for Tiotia after five months. While searching for Tiotia, police also found the body of Aydan Brown, who had gone missing from a Chartwell address five months ago. Brown’s family invited Moote’s to the site yesterday on River Rd, where Brown was pulled out of the water, for a karakia.

Class solidarity can gain 51%, Identity Politics risks pure temple over broad-church and you get endless schisms and little to show for it. Identity Politics activists suffering the narcism of petty difference and subjective triggering who put their identity above all else. The problem is the Right keep using woke to provoke culture war over reaction that the Right points to and says, ‘I told you so’. The Political Left responds to rising populism in NZ by leaning into that populism with Broadchurch Politics rather than alienating pure temple middle class Identity Politics woke dogma! Woke middle class activism has made our movement an alienating unfunny joke that the Right have weaponised.

The system means the current National Government is actually still operating with the multi-year health budget set by Labour. This means Budget 2026 could feature far more proscriptive budgeting for health, and a return to the old year-by-year funding model. Willis said the Government would still increase health funding every year. “They are a tool that puts the focus on medium-term sustainability, rather than on annual Budget initiatives,” Willis said in her Budget Policy Statement in December. “We will, at Budget, have an energy package which demonstrates our fiscal and regulatory commitment to affordable energy and electricity,” Willis said.

After months of unemployment, Tattersall was relying heavily on his savings and had signed up for temporary work. He also started posting about his job hunt on social media, to give himself something creative to focus on. However, other London job seekers have not been as lucky. She secured a marketing job when she first moved to London in 2024 but was later made redundant. She said London companies are struggling and cutting back on recruiting to save money.

The new five-star Sheraton Christchurch on Oxford Tce, formerly known as Noah’s Hotel in the 1970s and more recently as Rydges, is slowly being rebuilt. After being badly damaged in the February 22, 2011 earthquake, the new five-star Sheraton Christchurch on Oxford Tce, formerly known as Noah’s Hotel in the 1970s and more recently as Rydges, is slowly being rebuilt. The quake-strengthening work has almost been completed and work is now under way on the interior design of the $150 million hotel transformation. The hotel will also feature the city’s highest rooftop bar and a top-floor presidential suite. The Sheraton Christchurch is scheduled to open in mid-2027.

“We looked at each other and said: ‘That’s it, that’ll do’,” Trotter recalled during a special 40th anniversary Country Calendar show, 20 years ago. Kate Broadbent on Nikau Coopworth farm in Waikato - she was the focus of a Country Calendar episode in late 2025. Broadbent talks of agriculture’s place as the backbone of New Zealand and the importance of Country Calendar in showcasing that. Photo / Annaleise ShortlandWellington-based Henry has been connected to Country Calendar since 2008 and has been its producer since 2023. “There’s not a Country Calendar I’ve done that I haven’t enjoyed in some way.

Martin had argued that revealing his legal status as a convicted paedophile would jeopardise his safety in prison – especially while on remand in Auckland. Photo / NZME“Your offending included significant elements of degradation and cruelty in isolating the younger girl and directing her actions,” Justice Pheroze Jagose told Martin. “You denied your 2006 offending at sentencing, which the judge then recorded was ‘a cause for continuing concern’,” Justice Jagose noted at the most recent sentencing. “He wants to make himself better,” Hamlin recently told Justice Jagose. Photo / Paul EstcourtA normal sentence, Justice Jagose later noted, could have resulted in Martin being returned to the community on parole by later this year.

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Sign in hereAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Most Auckland beaches unsafe for swimming after wastewater overflowsMost Auckland and outer gulf beaches are unsafe for swimming today because of contaminated waterways, with heavy rain triggering wastewater overflow throughout the region. The Auckland Council’s Safeswim tool, which uses real-time data on rainfall, wind and other environmental factors to predict water quality across city beaches, shows almost all those lining the two harbours are unsuitable for swimming. Black “do not swim” warnings, the highest possible level, are issued when wastewater has been detected. Lower alert levels, such as red flags, advise against swimming, while a red swimming symbol on top indicates water that frequently fails to meet national standards.

Stonewood Homes Otago director Regan McCormack says the business is trying to distance itself from the former Stonewood Homes Dunedin franchise "as much as we can". PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIENA Dunedin business owner was abused in a supermarket and is facing "extreme hostility" after being falsely linked to an under-fire builder. Mr Sneddon ran the Stonewood Homes Dunedin franchise until May 2024 and his company — Braemar Building Ltd — is in liquidation owing an estimated $850,000. "Regan was already building homes in Otago prior to joining Stonewood Homes and came with strong client endorsements and Master Builders membership. Mr Sneddon did not respond to a request for comment before deadline yesterday.

Civis was contemplating this in the wake of the shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Good by an Ice (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) officer. At the other extreme, Ms Good was wielding a potentially lethal weapon in the form of a large vehicle. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, meanwhile, did not hesitate to label the incident "an act of domestic terrorism" by Ms Good. Alarmingly, Mr Trump said this week that "at a very minimum, that woman was very, very disrespectful to law enforcement". If disrespecting law enforcement warrants being shot and killed, what does that say?

PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIENUsing your head during the Masters Games may save your life. That’s the message of three clinicians who will host a seminar about men’s and women’s health during the event. Anna Zhai, who works for the Headache Clinic in Princes St, said we often took for granted the importance of head health. "The thing with these kind of people who participate in the Masters Games is they like to push through." The 2026 Masters Games take place in Dunedin from January 31 to February 8.

Photo: ReutersMore heat accumulated in the ocean in 2025 than in any year since modern measurements began, an internationally recognised climate scientist from New Zealand, Dr Kevin Trenberth, says. Heat in the upper 2km of the ocean rose by an estimated 23 zettajoules, according to a study co-authored by Trenberth. That is the equivalent of detonating hundreds of millions of Hiroshima atomic bombs — or roughly 200 times global electrical energy consumption in 2023. The extra heat drives global sea-level rise and intensifies extreme weather by increasing heat and moisture in the atmosphere.

Do you know what I thought of when I saw Pantone’s new colour of the year, Cloud Dancer? The guys at Pantone know exactly what they’re doing when they gather to make their annual selection. Trump’s purge of diversity, equity and inclusion content and roles from government, saw a literal erasure of colour in American workplaces, which neatly reflected what was happening in the sea. This is to take the colour choice literally though, and if I know one thing about the visual poets of Pantone it is that they trade largely in metaphor, enigma and vibe, so there are layers to the choice of a colour that is, really, an absence of colour. Cloud Dancer is the colour of ChatGPT therapy, or the sky at a time of crisis, or the moment you stop trying.

The Princess of Wales has revealed that she plays rugby with her daughter – but wouldn’t want to be tackled by Prince George, her eldest child. She told the team that both Prince George, 12, and Prince Louis, seven, played rugby at school, whereas 10-year-old Princess Charlotte joins in at home. Speaking about how schools often choose not to separate boys and girls for sport when they are younger, the Princess said: “Charlotte is playing rugby, but at home with the family, so she isn’t playing yet at school. “Rugby is so accessible, Louis is playing touch rugby, and it’s such a great game. “Obviously, as they get physically stronger – George now, if we play at home, I do not want to get tackled… but up to a certain age, I think it’s great.”