After being notified, police quickly arrested a young woman, who tried to flee on to Hibiscus Coast Highway in the midst of live traffic. Police say a young woman was caught trying to flee the Hibiscus Coast Bus Station by running into live traffic. Photo / Jason DordayThe young person has been charged with assault and was due to appear in the North Shore Youth Court this morning. It comes weeks after a 16-year-old boy was allegedly violently attacked on a North Shore bus. Auckland Transport group manager for public transport operations, Rachel Cara, said it was assisting police with the matter.

Each now carries a satellite unit that pings a location when the shark surfaces, enabling real-time public tracking via the Great White App. The Great White app tracks as of October 2025. “Great whites are rarely seen in the Polynesian islands, even though they spend half their lives there,” Elliott said. Tracking of great white sharks across the southwest Pacific. Riley Elliott with a great white shark on Discovery Channel's Shark Week TV series.

The single male fly was found in Mount Roskill. Photo / Biosecurity New ZealandA biosecurity operation is underway in Auckland after the find of a Queensland fruit fly. The male fruit fly was in a surveillance trap and identified this morning in Mt Roskill. Legal restrictions are now in force on the moving of fruit and vegetables out of the area it was found in. In the meantime, we ask that people who live and work in the suburb not take any whole fresh fruit and vegetables out of their property.”

What would Kiwis talk about at barbecues and worry about at night if we didn’t have a mortgage rate to refix? Seriously though, the New Zealand obsession with short-term fixed mortgage rates is something of a cultural quirk. Banks have also made the point that there isn’t much demand here for longer terms – although that seems a bit self-fulfilling. Some people may recall that local banks did offer seven-year fixed rate terms a few years ago – but they weren’t popular. We Kiwis are hooked on short- and mid-term fixed rates and are kind of stuck with them.

“He wasn’t leaning forward on the safety bar, so he had enough time to turn around and grab on. “He was just hanging off the seat – he was pretty traumatised.”A video has emerged showing the moments before two friends fell from a Ferris wheel at a Christchurch music festival. A person standing on the bar of the Ferris wheel. Photo / SuppliedEvent Hire said an independent health and safety adviser from Rolling Meadows conducted a site audit of the Ferris wheel about 11.30pm on New Year’s Eve. The adviser had provided a positive assessment of the event operations, staff competency, safety procedures and rider management at that time.

“It just caught my eye the fact that it was different, the size was the first thing I noticed. It’s a fairly large spider.”Te Papa PhD student Shaun Thompson contacted her, identifying the spider as a potential new species. Taranaki Regional Council biodiversity officer Sandra Sánchez and landowner Rob Hooper. Although it might be a long time before the spider would receive its own name, Thompson had suggested it be called the Taranaki trapdoor spider. Sánchez said discovering a new species had been a dream since she was little.

Fire and Emergency NZ regularly monitored fire risk at Wither Hills, but the decision to close the park lay with Marlborough District Council. Trigg said Wither Hills was an "extremely volatile" area, and that closing it during peak fire season was the safest thing to do. "Any decision to close Wither Hills Farm Park is based on the indices, the fuel loadings, and the weather forecast," the spokesperson said. So it's really important that the community is really well prepared for grassland fire in South Marlborough," Trigg said. South Marlborough was currently in a restricted fire season, meaning permits were required, but north of the Wairau River was still in an open fire season.

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Court documents reveal that, in the case of Manage My Health, the data breach included information from 45 GP practices based in Northland. However, the stolen information also involved 355 “referral-originating” medical practices across several regions. The information taken included clinical discharge summaries, referrals and related files, and information uploaded to the system by patients. The injunction aimed to stop “all persons from accessing or in any way dealing with the stolen data, including storing, broadcasting, publishing, sharing, disclosing, or using any information taken from the stolen data”. In its application for a High Court injunction over misuse of its data, Neighbourly said about 150 gigabytes of information had been stolen on a specific “occasion” when the vulnerability was exploited.

Morning Headlines | Trump speaks at Republican retreat, Rodeo popularity rises on cusp of new regulations | Wednesday January 7, 2025Police have condemned the theft of war veteran plaques from an Invercargill cemetery as a “particularly low act”. A 44-year-old man has been charged with theft by Invercargill Police after plaques went missing from St John’s Cemetery between October 28 and November 22. Nine plaques were taken in total, four of which were taken from the graves of Returned Service personnel who served in World War I and World War II. Senior Constable Craig Colyer said all nine plaques have since been recovered, but, sadly, some were damaged beyond repair. “While we are pleased the plaques have been located, it is disappointing that not all could be restored to their original condition,” he said.

Denmark, including Greenland, was part of Nato, it added, urging a collective approach alongside the United States to security in the polar region. The statement was signed by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland,” the statement said. Nielsen repeated his call to the United States for a “respectful dialogue through the appropriate diplomatic and political channels, and through the use of existing forums based on agreements that already exist with the United States”. “It’s like a broken record ... you would think he [Trump] doesn’t really understand what Denmark and Greenland are saying,” he told AFP.

Brown told RNZ the breach was not acceptable. “I think there’s certainly lessons that need to be learned, I think it’s pretty unacceptable what’s happened to be honest. In an interview with RNZ on Tuesday, Manage My Health chief executive Vino Ramayah said the company was itself also the victim of crime. On Tuesday, a cyber security expert told RNZ he could not see Manage My Health recovering from the breach. “I’m not unprepared to step down if there’s a better person who can do a better job than I did.”– RNZ

Remember – there is no depression in NZ, or corruption and we don’t know how lucky we are. Tamatha’s crime was to challenge the slavish police worship culture of NZ, remember the VERY FIRST editorial that the NZ Herald ran with was calling white settlers to go to war with Māori. We have become experts in a hyper laid back culture of turning a blind eye. Remember – there is no depression in NZ, or corruption and we don’t know how lucky we are. Thanks to the NZ Herald, this is what we is now, this is the redneck knuckle dragging cretins we have become.

A Dunedin climate activist attempted to pay a court levy with a hand-drawn $50 note in a publicity stunt. It came after he held an A3 paper sign saying "It’s a climate emergency" at Dunedin Airport in July last year. Today outside the Dunedin Courthouse he explained the $50 note he drew featured a portrait of Shane Jones, a vulture instead of kōkako and cannabis leaves. Bruce Mahalski holds the $50 note he drew to pay his court fine. Last time the activist was ordered to pay the same fee, he paid with a real $50 note inside a bag of coal.

Mr Purvis, 20, had intended to climb Mt Huxley on or about December 30, descending the Huxley River South branch. New Zealand Mountain Safety Council chief executive Mike Daisley said there was still every chance Mr Purvis could be rescued. Mr Hall said Mr Purvis was known to be a keen outdoorsman and a expert climber. A view from a plane involved in the search for Mr Purvis in the Mt Huxley region this week. Specialist search teams working included Wānaka Canyon and Drone teams, the Dunedin Cliff rescue team and several Land Search and Rescue teams.