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Two people have been tracked down and arrested after allegedly robbing a jewellery store in the Auckland CBD – using a rental vehicle for their getaway. The store on High St was robbed of 17 pieces of jewellery on May 30. “Inquiries carried out by our staff revealed the alleged offenders used a rented vehicle to leave the scene,” Auckland City area investigations manager Detective Senior Sergeant Martin Friend said.The alleged jewel thieves were identified as Ōpōtiki locals. The Auckland Central Tactical Crime Unit found that the stolen jewellery had been taken into pawn shops in Rotorua.”In total they have…
Auckland and Wellington have both maintained their positions in the recently released list of the top 20 most liveable cities in the world for 2025.The City of Sails has again shared its seventh-placed equal ranking with Osaka, Japan, up two places from ninth equal last year.Our capital city Wellington stayed the same, coming in at 20th place.Both cities had recently been ranked highly by the annual index by the Economist Intelligence Unit.Wellington on one of those “good days”. (Source: Getty)Auckland was ranked the world’s most liveable city and Wellington was ranked fourth in the 2021 index.Across the ditch, Melbourne came…
A Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J Hercules aircraft has landed in the Middle East as part of New Zealand’s contingency plan to assist New Zealand citizens seeking to leave Iran and Israel.The aircraft, which took off from Auckland’s Whenuapai airbase on Monday, and other NZDF personnel were positioned in the region and on standby if required.Earlier this week, Defence Minister Judith Collins said the deployment of the aircraft was part of contingency planning.”By positioning an aircraft and Defence and Foreign Affairs personnel in the region, we may be able to do more when airspace reopens.”The contingent included New Zealand…
Published on 25/06/2025 – 20:55 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTLast week, the European Commission announced plans to remove one of the key proposals from the European Green Deal.The directive aims to combat greenwashing by regulating the use of terms such as “eco-responsible” or “natural” by an independent body.”The proposal on green claims aims to ensure better consumer protection and guarantee the competitiveness of European businesses,” Sandro Gozi, a French MEP (Renew Europe), told Euronews.”We want to justify a claim that this product is very green, this product is very sustainable. That’s fine, but if you say that, if you go to market saying that,…
A second person has been charged in relation to the death of a Kaikohe toddler last month.A homicide investigation was launched after Cattleya Tangimetua-Pepene was found unresponsive at her home on May 21. The three-year-old died at the scene.Detective Senior Sergeant Christan Fouhy today said police have made a second arrest in relation to the three-year-old’s death. A 31-year-old woman appeared in the Kaikohe District Court today charged with neglect and fraud-related offences.The woman has been remanded in custody to reappear on July 15.A 45-year-old man appeared in court last month charged with her murder.
The Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Māori and Pacific galleries could remain closed until 2029.The museum was planning a major redevelopment for its centenary, which would revitalise much of the original 1929 building.That redevelopment was expected to run from about 2026 to 2029, but the discovery of asbestos in May of 2025 had complicated those plans.”The discovery happened because we started doing some scoping around what state the air conditioning systems were in, and we went up into the ceiling and that’s when they discovered the remnants of a previous removal effort in the 1980s,” museum director David Reeves said.The majority…
By Meabh McMahon & Jeremy Fleming-Jones Published on 25/06/2025 – 15:05 GMT+2•Updated 26/06/2025 – 9:28 GMT+2ADVERTISEMENTUkraine is confident that it will eventually be able to overcome Hungarian resistance to its path to EU accession, the head of the country’s Mission to the EU told Euronews’ morning show Europe Today on Thursday.Vselovod Chentsov came into the studio in Brussels for an exclusive interview as EU leaders gather in Brussels for another critical summit, with Ukrainian EU accession one of the agenda items.“We’re fighting to stop this war first of all and we’re fighting for our European future. Ukraine is a candidate state…
A music licensing organisation is chasing up hundreds of businesses a week asking them to pay-up for the tunes they are using, so that artists get what they are owed. OneMusic licences certain music for use in commerical settings like pubs, club, offices, hairdressers, gym and factories, nearly anything outside of personal use. Charges vary, playing the radio in a factory with 72 workers would cost $49 a month for licence, a gym with 500 members would pay about $104 dollars a month. OneMusic Director, Greer Davies said music licencing had been around for a while, and the company saw…
A detective giving evidence in the DeLuney trial says inconsistencies in the accused’s story led police to investigate the death as a manslaughter, rather than an accident.Julia DeLuney is accused of murdering her 79-year-old mother, Helen Gregory, and the trial, expected to take at least four weeks, is in its fourth day.The Crown’s case was that DeLuney violently attacked her mother on the evening of January 24, 2024, at Gregory’s home in Khandallah.But the defence claimed Gregory fell from the attic, and while DeLuney left her in a bedroom to drive back to her Kāpiti home to collect her husband…
Where you live — rather than how sick you are — is still a major factor in how quickly you get elective surgery — or whether you get it at all, according to a new report by the government watchdog.The report, Providing equitable access to planned care, which has just been tabled in Parliament by the Auditor-General John Ryan, showed elective services in the public system were often “not equitable or timely”.People with the same level of clinical need will qualify for treatment in some districts but not in others. “As a result, a person’s ability to access treatment is,…