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A farm owner in Tasman says severe weather which has “smashed” her farm overnight is “heartbreaking” for her business. A state of emergency in place for part of Marlborough, as well as Nelson and Tasman as heavy rain batters the regions. Marlborough District Council has asked residents to avoid all travel unless absolutely necessary.Wild Oats farm owner Kirsty Lalich told 1News it wasn’t the first time her farm on Pretty Bridge Rd had experienced flooding, but said she’d “never, ever seen it like this”. “We’ve had rain like that before, but then it’s absolutely smashed it through the night. I…
Service stations in the North Island are raising alarm bells about thefts from underground fuel tanks, with two stations saying the raids pose a danger to the community.A G.A.S Station in Northland and another station in Hamilton both said thieves have taken petrol from their underground storage tanks, and say they have concerns with how their cases were handled.The Kaihu G.A.S station is in rural Northland, about 23 minutes from Dargaville.Mani Kaur runs the station with her husband, and said they were struck by thieves twice earlier this month. They said roughly 2000 litres of fuel was syphoned from their…
By Meabh McMahon & Jeremy Fleming-Jones Published on 27/06/2025 – 11:09 GMT+2•Updated 11:15ADVERTISEMENTIt would be a mistake for the European Commission to follow French President Emmanuel Macron’s advice and slam the brakes on its proposals for 2040 climate targets, the Commission’s Executive Vice-President Teresa Ribera told Euronews’ Europe Today show on Friday morning.Ribera, responsible for the EU’s green transition portfolio, is slated to present the 2040 targets after next Wednesday’s meeting of the college of commissioners. The French president raised his opposition to the EU executive’s tabling of the proposal next week in an unusual intervention at the leaders’ level during…
A warning has been issued due to a growing trend of counterfeit pills being misrepresented as prescription medication in fake blister packs. The New Zealand Drug Foundation has discovered what was presumed to be alprazolam bars in an unopened blister pack that instead contained tramadol and no benzodiazepine, the High Alert agency said. “It is highly unusual and concerning to find these tablets in seemingly authentic blister packaging.”Dr Rhys Ponton from the School of Pharmacy at UoA said that there was an immense market for counterfeit medicines “to convince patients and health professionals that a product is genuine and contains…
Te Matatini 2027 will now be hosted by Tainui in Waikato, after hosting duties for the event were pulled from Nelson. The festival was taken away from Te Tauihu o Te Waka-a-Māui as organisers held concerns that its rapid growth would lead to smaller regions being unable to accommodate the burgeoning numbers of kaihaka and supporters.The 2027 competition, named Tākiri Tū Te Matatini, would now be held at Hopuhopu — a former military camp turned iwi hub. This would be the first time the event has been held in the region and hosted by Tainui since 2000. The decision to…
REVIEW: Fans of the New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde have long commended the artist for her visceral pop craft. Her music, to certain ears, sounds like freedom. On her new album, it is as though Lorde is able to hear it, too.On Virgin, the singer born Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor’s fourth studio album and first in four years, pop hits are devoid of any anxious filtering. She is raw.When Lorde first emerged as a gothic popstar — with Royals, and its critique of celebrity culture and hyper consumerism — she did so with prescience. Her sparse production style and cursive-singing had…
Two men have been caught with a “huge haul” of illegally harvested pāua by Wellington fishery officers. The officers discovered 1863 pāua while inspecting the pairs vessel shortly after it landed at Titahi Bay on Tuesday afternoon. Fisheries New Zealand regional manager Phil Tasker said that the “huge haul” of pāua had already been shucked, and the two men would likely face charges under the Fisheries Act. “There is a maximum daily limit of five pāua per fisher in this area, which gives some context to the scale of this offending and the potential damage it could do to the pāua population,”…
An alleged car thief has been arrested within 10 minutes of stealing a courier van parked opposite the Napier police station this morning.A courier driver was delivering a parcel to a premises on Station St opposite the Napier Police Station, shortly before 10am on Friday.Senior Sergeant Su Robinson said the driver left his vehicle running when a woman got into the van full of parcels and drove off.”The driver has urgently run into the front counter of the police station and let front desk staff know.”Officers located both the van and the woman on Masefield Ave a short time later.Robinson…
Police are investigating a break-in at a home reportedly owned by Brad Pitt, who has been on a globe-spanning promo tour for his new movie, F1.The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed they responded to a break-in Wednesday night (local time) at a house on the 2300 block of North Edgemont St in the Los Feliz neighbourhood of Los Angeles.Three suspects broke into the residence through the front window, ransacked the home and fled with miscellaneous property, said Officer Drake Madison.Madison said he could not identify who owned or lived in the home, and no information was currently available on what…
Run It Straight is a “dangerous spectacle” that is harming young people and must be banned immediately, say Aotearoa’s leading trauma clinicians.Three frontline medical professionals issued the warning in a hard-hitting editorial published today in the New Zealand Medical Journal.It follows the death of Ryan Satterthwaite, 19, who died during a backyard Run It Straight-style game.The editorial, written by trauma nurse Sarah Logan, surgical registrar Rachel Lauchlan, and general surgeon Dr Christopher Wakeman, calls on councils, schools, and sporting bodies to take urgent action to prevent further harm.”Run It Straight is not a sport. It is a dangerous spectacle that…