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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…
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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…
A Dunedin business has made a big donation with the goal to keep first-responders safe while they are working to keep everyone else fit and healthy. Workplace First Aid Training managing director Phil Hudson presented Surf Life Saving New Zealand (SLSNZ) with buckets of first-aid CPR masks this week. Half of the 2000 masks would go to Otago, and other half would be sent up to Canterbury. It was all about protecting the first responder, he said. There was an inherent risk to first responders when performing actions such as mouth-to-mouth, since direct contact was needed. He hoped nobody would…
The morning’s headlines in 90 seconds, including how police are putting the Marokopa puzzle together, a middle of the night shock for an Auckland family, and why your next online shopping haul could be late. Police reveal more about how they’ll learn what the Marokopa children know, as the quad bike and police car are removed from the scene of the shooting. Hamas says its leaders survived an Israeli attack on Qatar. An Auckland family’s car has been hit by an out of control driver for the second time in two weeks. Containers have tumbled off a container ship at…
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Three bedrooms, one bathroom, and a tremendous amount of “hazardous waste” were some of the hallmarks of a mortgagee sale of a 1.8-hectare rural Tasman property.Embalming fluid, 111 gas bottles, and 160kg of rat bait were among the tonnes of waste found at the property.The house had been put up for mortgagee sale in April, while property owner Paul Hogarty was sentenced in June 2025 to 20 months in prison for “kidnapping” a meter reader.A September 2024 visit by a Tasman District Council compliance officer to the Lower Moutere property revealed “significant quantities of numerous sorts of hazardous substances” that…
By Christian Levin, CEO of Scania AB Published on 10/09/2025 – 8:00 GMT+2 The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. ADVERTISEMENT As Europe debates the future of its automotive industry, one fact must be front and centre: trucks and buses are the backbone of Europe’s economy. Every day, they deliver essential goods and services to hundreds of millions of citizens and businesses. They are also at the heart of our continent’s climate ambitions. Our industry has already invested billions in zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Today, we…
By Rachel Helyer Donaldson of RNZ Struggling to manage the costs of rising electricity, some consumers may be finding the free ‘hour of power’ is not the cost-cutting magic bullet they hoped. Waikato couple Samara and Sam Constable use as much power as they can between 9pm and 10pm daily to make the most of the free hour their Electric Kiwi plan offers. They say it was this free hour that initially attracted them to the company, as they tried to save for a mortgage. “We put on the washing machine, the dishwasher, the dryer, we have showers from 8pm…