It's the second major blow in a week for the West Coast town, which faces losing its only air service from May. "We know this will have a real impact on individuals, their families and the wider West Coast community, and that weighs heavily on all of us." Two rūnanga and Development West Coast are shareholders in the business, and we have worked hard to build strong relationships across the region," his statement said. Development West Coast paid $3 million in 2024 for a 1.84% share in WMS. We remain committed to the West Coast and to building a long-term, inter-generational minerals business in the region and for New Zealand.

The hole was noticed just before 8am yesterday when doctors showed up for work, with frosted film credited for preventing the glass from shattering. These are people with real health concerns.”The bullet went into Dr Scarlett Pulham's clinic window, sending a glass fragment flying. Photo / Waiake Medical CentreBecause the clinic’s cameras only had peripheral street view, those responsible were not captured on security footage, the spokesperson said. Waitemata East area prevention manager Aron McKeown said police are unaware slug-gun crime has escalated in Torbay and surrounding suburbs. Carrying a BB gun in public without a lawful reason is considered a serious offence.

Photo: ODT FilesA Christchurch building company has gone into court liquidation owing just over $500,000 in mainly unpaid tax bills. Inland Revenue made the application to wind up the house construction, renovation and repair business owned by sole director and shareholder Jordan Knox. The Official Assignee said the IRD was owed nearly $485,000, as well as $1800 in applicant costs, of the total estimated shortfall. The Official Assignee said it was establishing communication with the director to obtain the company’s financial statements and a statement of affairs. The company was placed into liquidation in the High Court at Christchurch on February 5, also sought after by the IRD.

The Highlanders’ Timoci Tavatavanawai is stopped by Hurricanes players Ruben Love (left) and Xavier Numia during the sides’ Super Rugby match at Forsyth Barr Stadium last night. Super Rugby’s table-toppers showed no mercy as they romped to a 10th straight win over the helpless Highlanders. After a Caleb Tangitau burst and a quick recycle, Highlanders fullback Jacob Ratumaitavuki-Kneepkens stepped one defender and out-paced two more for his second try of the season. Under advantage, Hurricanes first five Ruben Love sent over an ugly but effective cross kick that was pouched by Fineanganofo, who bullied past Tangitau to score. The Highlanders simply must win when they head north next Friday to play struggling Moana Pasifika at North Harbour Stadium.

A man who died after falling from a boat on Lake Manapouri last weekend has been named. He was Regan Soper, of Gore. Mr Soper’s body was recovered on Thursday morning. He went missing about 6.15pm last Saturday after he fell out of a boat, about 1km offshore. Police search and rescue and the police dive squad, with assistance from the Royal New Zealand Navy, had conducted extensive searches of the lake and surrounding areas before his body was discovered.

Photo: ODT filesA recruitment agency’s previous interaction with the Dunedin City Council is unrelated to its involvement in selecting a chief executive, the council says. Sheffield South Island has been appointed by the council to help in the hunt for a chief executive and advertising is expected to start on Monday. Ms Graham started a five-year contract as chief executive in 2020 and the council ended up offering her a one-year extension last year. Any previous engagement between the council and Sheffield was unrelated to the chief executive recruitment and selection process, a council spokesman said. The council undertook an open-market process to choose a recruitment agency, which resulted in Sheffield’s selection, the spokesman said.

Two people were stuck in a vehicle for more than two hours surrounded by live power lines after a crash at Milburn closed the road for most of the morning yesterday. However, rescuers had to stand well back due to a plethora of live wires surrounding the crash on the Waihola Highway, south of Dunedin. The crashed vehicle was a removal truck with two occupants inside, one of whom had to be airlifted to Dunedin Hospital. He said the crash site was a "complex" spot in terms of power. Emergency services prepare to extract the occupant of a truck after hours of them being stuck inside the cab while injured and surrounded by live wires.

Four-time world champ Canadian Gord Humphrey, pictured burning up Alberta’s Peace River, will take on local rivers this weekend. For some thrilling jetboat racing at close quarters, the banks of Queenstown’s lower Shotover River will make a good viewing spot early afternoon this today. River Racing NZ’s Otago Series River Race takes place on Glenorchy’s Dart River, from 9am, then in the afternoon the boats will race — from about 2pm — down the Kawarau River, from Kelvin Heights, up the Shotover, then back, before repeating the course. The unlimited class will include four-time world champion Gord Humphrey, from Canada, who will race his 1650 horsepower turbine-powered boat, Unnatural Disaster. ‘‘The water’s good, actually, at the moment and the weather’s looking good for the weekend, so hope for the best.’’For details on race times, see River Racing NZ’s Facebook page.

Photo: RNZThe catastrophic failure of the Moa Point wastewater treatment plant may have been caused by air trapped in the pipes, a report reveals. The Wellington plant failed on February 4 this year, flooding the facility and sending millions of litres of raw sewage into the sea each day. Wellington Water commissioned the engineering report the day after the failure to understand how the plant could be operated during the recovery. "The report found that air can become trapped in the wastewater bypass pipeline, particularly when there is a high flow of wastewater passing through the plant. He described what could have happened: "Sometimes you pull the plug out of your sink, and it doesn't go down as fast as you think, because it starts going glug, glug, glug, glug, glug... it's that type of effect.

The Queenstown Electrification Accelerator’s about to start a ‘solar for renters’ trial in the Queenstown-Lakes. The Queenstown Electrification Accelerator (QEA) is about to kick in to a solar trial, aimed at ensuring residential and commercial renters can benefit from solar power, despite not owning the roof. While landlords participating in the trial will still have to pay for the solar system — which could range from $10,000 to about $30,000 — she says it’ll be a ‘‘shared benefits model’’. ‘‘The landlord purchases the solar system [and] the tenant has lower-cost energy — so they still pay for any kilowatt hours that they’ve consumed from solar, for example, but it’s at lower costs than the grid. QEA’s looking to close off applications for the ‘solar for renters trial’ within the next two months and expects it, once systems are installed, to last about a year.

Photo: E Tū UnionHow pay equity became lawTo understand the impact of that March meeting, it helps to step back. Pay equity specialist Amy Ross, the former head of the pay equity taskforce, said those briefings exposed what she said was a long-held, ideological view among the agencies: that pay equity was nothing but a risk to the government. Officials responded with a screenshot from MBIE's website explaining that pay parity and pay equity were two different things, and both were legislated requirements in the Equal Pay Act. Van Velden's advisory followed up with questions wanting to know the broader "consequences" of the interaction between pay parity and pay equity. Taken together, the changes fundamentally reshaped how pay equity claims could be brought in New Zealand.

There are increasing complaints around the deer population in Westland. One board member yesterday described it as "the worst it's ever been in South Westland". The board called on more public help in controlling deer numbers. "There is a huge public interest in controlling deer numbers. The deer numbers are going up and everybody's complaining about it, but I think there is an obligation to involve the public," Mr Wilson said.

In 2022, jet-lagged and travelling with my family, I made a sarcastic remark to a border agent. When I visited LA in June last year, solo, I tried the new Mobile Passport Control (MPC) app. It’s available for Australian and New Zealand passport holders travelling on an electronic system for travel authorisation (ESTA). Later at the Cody Rodeo, a bloke in a red cap sitting beside me explained rodeo rules for two hours. Because of Nino, Katia, my rodeo friend, and the countless others like them who just want to share their country.

Mira Sorvino has suggested that she would have had a “bigger” Hollywood career if she hadn’t been “blacklisted” by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. “I was blacklisted for 20 years,” Sorvino alleged on the Wednesday, March 18, episode of Sophia Bush’s “Work in Progress” podcast. While she followed up her Oscar win with appearances in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and Mimic, Sorvino told Bush that she paid a price for turning down Weinstein’s advances. She told the New Yorker that Weinstein actively sabotaged her career when she rejected his advances multiple times in the 1990s. Advertisement Advertisement“There's a second wave of that sorrow and broken-heartedness right now because of the Epstein Files,” the actress said.

Map: NZTAA person has been critically injured in a crash affecting a major highway in Central Otago. Police said they received a report of a single-vehicle crash on State Highway 6 (Gibbston Highway), near the Roaring Meg Lookout in the Kawarau Gorge, about 5.20pm today. "One person received critical injuries." A Fire and Emergency NZ crew from Cromwell attended and a rescue helicopter was sent to the scene also. A spokesman for the New Zealand Transport Agency said the crash was near the Cardrona-Roaring Meg Pack Track intersection.