The road has re-opened after a crash that blocked State Highway 1 on the Rakaia Bridge this afternoon. In an update just after 3pm today police confirmed the road had re-opened, although said traffic remained heavy in the area and delays were to be expected. Police earlier said they were called to a two-vehicle crash, involving a car and truck, about 12.40pm. There were no injuries reported. In an update at 1.45pm NZTA said traffic was moving using a Stop/Go system.
Police are continuing their investigation into the killing of Teishallia Te Paea. Photo: Supplied / NZ PolicePolice say there are four people they want to speak to as they investigate the killing of Hastings woman Teishallia Te Paea. Detective Inspector Martin James said police wanted to speak to three males who, together, visited the victim's Kotuku St house in August or September. A profiler from the police Behavioural Science Unit analysed the murder, which police said was committed in a unique way. They also believed the offender had knowledge of the Kotuku St property and attempts to conceal the crime were to create distance between them and Te Paea.
Coastguard National Operations Centre confirmed it received reports from members of the public about the capsized yacht. A spokesperson said the person on board was assisted by a nearby vessel, so Coastguard Tutukākā was not required to launch. “My mum was looking out at the sea and said the yacht shouldn’t be out there – it was too windy,” he said. Moments later, the yacht appeared to strike the reef and come to an abrupt stop. However, about five minutes later, Baragwanath said the boat began pitching heavily before capsizing in rough seas.
You notice these things because the farmer and the city kid were vastly different animals. And he became legendary when I took stories of The Hat cussing and kicking, and eating, back to the uninitiated in the suburbs. He was probably doing the same – taking stories of the uselessness and incompetence of city kids to the saleyards and the local Federated Farmers meetings. ”A man needed that.”I would feed off the sight of another man feeding. By one o’clock, what a man needed was viscera, innards, guts, offal.
Photo / Getty ImagesThe bottom line is that the New Zealand economy was supposed to be better by now. In his OCR preview, Harbour Asset Management head of fixed income Mark Brown sums up the problem: “Rate cuts seem to have had little impact on the economy so far. “The housing market is generally not responding to rate cuts as we have seen it do during previous rate cut cycles (especially in Auckland and Wellington). There has been almost no significant tariff impact on the New Zealand economy yet. So I still retain a good deal of confidence that the economy will improve in the next few months.
She wrote: “Holy s*** I did not know all that insane s*** Ms. Bardot stood for. “Very disappointing to learn.”After rising to fame in films like And God Created Woman, Bardot – who is regarded as an icon of French cinema – faced her share of scandals and controversy. Bardot herself was fined 30,000 francs by a French court in 2000 for inciting racial hatred in her 1999 book Le Carre de Pluton. She will be greatly missed by us.”Meanwhile, the city of Saint-Tropez – where Bardot lived – mourned their “most radiant ambassador”. “Brigitte Bardot now belongs to the collective memory of Saint-Tropez, which we must preserve.
Among the seven people named Dames and Knights in the 2026 New Year Honours list are (top) Professor Graham Le Gros, Coral Shaw, (bottom) Dorothy Spotswood and Scott Dixon. Photo: RNZSeven new Knights and Dames have been named on the 2026 New Year Honours list. They are Dames Helen Danesh-Meyer, Coral Shaw and Dorothy Spotswood, and Sirs Scott Dixon, Rod Drury, Graham Le Gros and Chris Parkin. The couple contributed $53 million to build the Wellington's Children's Hospital and a further $10m for the Dorothy Spotswood Charity Hospital. "To Dame Helen, Dame Coral and Dame Dorothy - and to Sir Scott, Sir Rod, Sir Graham and Sir Chris, thank you for your dedication, hard work, and service to New Zealand," Luxon said.
Shopkeepers and traders protest in the street against the economic conditions and Iran's embattled currency in Tehran. The Iranian rial's drop has increased import prices, affecting traders and causing spontaneous protests'. Western powers and Israel accuse Iran of seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a charge Tehran denies. The current protests against the high cost of living have not reached the level of the nationwide demonstrations that shook Iran in 2022. In 2019, protests broke out in Iran after the announcement of a sharp increase in petrol prices.
Hart’s superyacht – reportedly worth more than $250 million - shapes up well against some of the other large and luxurious vessels, even ones owned by some of the world’s richest men and women. Graeme Hart's 103m superyacht Ulysses. Rank Group, which Hart owns, houses businesses that operate internationally in the packaging, consumer goods and building supplies industries. In 2023, two listed United States companies majority-owned by Hart made a combined US$9.2 billion ($15b). Kurt Bayer is NZ Herald South Island Head of News based in Christchurch.
A granddaughter of President John F Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Schlossberg was the second child of Caroline Kennedy, a former US ambassador to Australia and Japan, and Edwin Schlossberg, an artist and designer. After leaving the Times in 2017, Schlossberg began freelancing and, in 2019, published Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have. Her mother was only 5 when her father, President Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. As a freelance journalist, Schlossberg contributed to publications including The Washington Post, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair. While battling cancer, Schlossberg held her profession up as a point of pride.
Hope’s contribution to Marlborough spans more than five decades, encompassing youth development, the arts, environmental protection, health governance and local government. Gerald Hope has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Earlier in his life, Hope was deeply involved in youth initiatives, helping establish youth programmes in the 1970s and maintaining links with the Marlborough Youth Council to this day. Hope also played a key role in establishing the Marlborough Environment Awards, recognising good stewardship by farmers and landowners. Ben Smart and Olivia Hope.
Martin Guptill celebrates his double century, going on to get 237 not out, during the ICC Cricket World Cup quarterfinal match against West Indies. Barclay was chairman of Northern Districts Cricket before being appointed to the New Zealand Cricket Board in 2012, becoming chair in 2016. She has held executive roles with the Ngongotahā Rugby League Club for 55 years and Bay of Plenty District Rugby League for 40 years. She led the transformation of Puketāwhero Park into the central hub for rugby league in Rotorua, including project management and building development. Whittle is a life member of the Auckland Rugby League Referees Association and of Auckland Rugby League since 2008, and was recognised with a Distinguished Service Award from New Zealand Rugby League in 2000.
“The people you talk with are the most important of all.”Since departing the mid-morning slot on Newstalk ZB, Smith has hosted his own-named podcast, now with more than 300 episodes. John Roughan has also been appointed a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to journalism. He joined the New Zealand Herald in 1981 and was posted to the Parliamentary Press Gallery two years later. He wrote his final column in the New Zealand Herald in May 2023 after 27 years. He was a New Zealand Press Council member from 2014 to 2018, representing the Newspaper Publishers Association and in 2014 wrote a biography of then Prime Minister Sir John Key.
Orini Rd was closed overnight between Rutherford and Tenfoot Rds as the Serious Crash Unit carried out a scene examination. Serious crash closes part of Southern Motorway, AucklandUPDATE 1:22PMSH1 from Hill Road to Takanini southbound motorway is CLOSED. NZ’s annual road tollThe two new road deaths take this year’s official Christmas holiday road toll to four, after two deaths were reported yesterday. The second road toll death was recorded yesterday, after a single-vehicle crash on SH2 in Tangoio, Hawke’s Bay. New Zealand’s annual road toll this year is now 271.
Dixon credits the “Scott Dixon Contingency Group” as the investment effort that helped get him moving and not just as a career launch pad, but as something that became a model for others. Scott Dixon celebrates after winning the 2023 NTT IndyCar Series Gallagher Grand Prix. “The Indy 500 is the one that’s hard to top and that definitely took a long time to sink in. Sir Scott Dixon and Lady Emma Dixon. Not because it turns Scott Dixon into Sir Scott Dixon, but because it confirms what the best of New Zealand sport has always looked like: excellence, graft, humility and the instinct to pull someone else through the door behind you.
