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Jetstar is set to ramp up its presence in New Zealand, adding more than 660,000 new seats a year across domestic and trans-Tasman routes.Jetstar said it would add “close to” 500,000 seats across five of its most popular domestic and trans-Tasman routes, and was adding two new services – one domestic and one to Australia. Around 135,000 seats would be created with new daily flights from Hamilton to Christchurch, and 17,000 would be added with flights three times a week from Queenstown to Brisbane between June and October 2026.To support the changes, it said an additional A320 aircraft would be…

Police have taken a person into custody without incident after a Wellington building was cordoned off following a reported sighting of a firearm.Officers entered the Webb St building at 6.15pm at took the person into custody without incident.”Police will remain at the address conducting further enquiries this evening,” a spokesperson said.Loud bangs were heard earlier this afternoon, with footage captured by 1News showed two officers firing towards the Webb St property, which had been cordoned off in the suburb of Te Aro.Police have confirmed the bangs were not gunshots but “distraction devices”, and no injuries had been reported.Loud bangs could…

Published on 10/09/2025 – 17:36 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Austria’s attempt to prevent the EU categorising nuclear power and natural gas as “sustainable” for the purposes of EU investment schemes was dismissed by the EU court on Wednesday.  Including the two sources of power within the EU taxonomy as sustainable was a “gradual” measure which would “allow security of supply”, judges found. A traditional anti-nuclear member state, Austria filed a lawsuit against the European Commission in October 2022 but the Luxembourg-based General Court backed the EU executive, arguing that it didn’t exceed its powers when including nuclear energy and fossil gas in the…

After fighting for 10 years to stop an eight-storey building being put at a strategic location at The Heads in Whakatāne, resident Linda Conning is devastated the council wants to sell an adjoining cottage property.The former Harbourmaster’s cottage at 1a Muriwai Dr is one of three properties Whakatāne District Council is proposing to sell as they are surplus to its needs.The other properties being proposed for sale are 21 Hodges Rd, Waimana, and 42 Te Tahi St, Whakatāne.The Muriwai Dr property was purchased by the Whakatāne Harbour Board in 1920 for harbour operations.For a short time, the house was used…

An urgent injunction preventing media, police, and Oranga Tamariki from publishing certain details about the investigation into Tom Phillips and his family will be heard at the High Court tomorrow.Tom Phillips was fatally shot by police after they were called to reports of a burglary in the early hours of Monday morning. Phillips had been evading police since December 2021 with his three children – Jayda, Maverick, and Ember.A police officer was shot in the head and shoulder, and remained in a “serious but stable” condition in Waikato Hospital.One child was uninjured at the scene of the shooting, while the…

Whanganui’s first Māori ward election is under scrutiny after an embarrassing blunder left Māori candidate profiles out of official voting packs.One candidate has called for the Māori ward referendum running alongside the election to be scrapped, saying the omission puts the integrity of the binding result in question.Voting papers delivered this week list the names of the five Māori ward candidates – Kiritahi Firmin, Julie Herewini, Geoff Hipango, Hayden Potaka and Phil (Bear) Reweti – but their official statements are missing from the candidate booklet sent to every voter.External electoral officer for the Whanganui District Council election, Warwick Lampp, of…

One person has been seriously injured after a fuel tank explosion in South Auckland this afternoon.Fire and Emergency NZ said they responded to the incident at Southpac Trucks in Wiri at around 3.17pm on Wednesday.Three trucks were sent but no action was required, a spokesperson said.St John said it was notified of the incident and responded with one ambulance and one rapid response unit.”One patient, in serious condition, has been transported to Middlemore Hospital.”

It will take time for the sequence of events in the Marokopa case to be established, and rightly so, writes criminology lecturer Ross Hendy.Police found two children, alone at a camp site in a remote location, after their fugitive father was shot dead during a burglary early on Monday morning. The death of Tom Phillips came after almost four years on the run, hiding out in dense bush in the North Island’s western Waikato region.Parallels have already been drawn with the ongoing search in Victoria for alleged police killer Dezi Freeman, who remains on the run and is believed to…

Published on 10/09/2025 – 11:06 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT A handful of Spanish media reported on Monday that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez had expressed “regret” that his country did not have “nuclear bombs” to stop Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. An article by newspaper La Gaceta was headlined: “Pedro Sánchez regrets not having nuclear weapons to ‘stop’ the Israeli response to Hamas.” “Sánchez regrets not having nuclear arms to prevent the ‘genocide’ in Gaza,” media outlet OK diario wrote. But a closer examination of Sánchez’s comments shows that, while the headlines cannot be considered incorrect, they have been taken out of…

Andrew Maxwell Clark is running for mayor in Tasman and Invercargill and reckons he could do both jobs, if elected.”I would be honoured to serve both, to be honest, if I was appointed to both,” he said.When asked if he had the capacity to lead both councils, Clark said he could, suggesting the scenario was similar to Members of Parliament who split their time between their constituencies and Wellington.”Travel is relatively cheap; you can get down there in half a day. Their schedules are quite different, but there’s a lot of benefits from joint knowledge, in my view… Whether the…