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One person has died following a three-vehicle crash in Karaka, south of Auckland, yesterday. Emergency services responded to the crash involving three vehicles on Karaka Rd between Blackbridge Rd and Sim Rd at about 5.20pm. “Sadly one person died last night and three others remain in hospital,” a police spokesperson said. St John spokesperson told 1News that 11 vehicles attended the incident and took six patients to Middlemore Hospital.Investigations into the circumstances of the crash remain ongoing.
New Zealand’s gross domestic product (GDP) fell 1% in the September quarter – and the figure for the quarter before that has been revised downwards as well.Stats NZ announced the 1% fall in the September 2024 quarter this morning. In September, the agency said the economy shrank by 0.2% in the three months to June – but today, it said that decrease was actually 1.1%.”The update to the June 2024 quarter growth rate reflects the incorporation of annual data, a process completed by Stats NZ each October,” Stats NZ explained.”In this instance, while the June quarter growth rate has been…
A third person has been charged with murder in relation to an alleged homicide at Lake Horowhenua, near Levin in October. Police launched a homicide investigation after 56-year-old Robert Nattie Albert’s body was found in a building in Muaūpoko Park on October 17.A 23-year-old man and 40-year-old man were both separately charged with Albert’s alleged murder earlier this month, and now a third man has also been arrested. “A 36-year-old man was arrested after presenting to the Levin Police station yesterday,” a police spokesperson said. He was due to appear in the Levin District Court today charged with murder.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out the possibility of allowing the transit of Russian-made gas under the label of Azerbaijan. ADVERTISEMENTUkraine will no longer allow the transit of Russian gas through the country’s territory after the end of this year, Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Thursday after meeting with leaders of the European Union in Brussels.The ban, he added, will apply to any gas flow “coming from Russia” to avoid the risk of having Russian gas sold to Europe under the guise of Azerbaijan-made gas.”We’re not going to extend the transit of Russian gas,” Zelenskyy told reporters.”We won’t allow them to earn…
Three companies have been sentenced after separate incidents involving a worker being killed and another suffering serious injury while near around powerlines. The sentencing of Coogan Contracting in Taumarunui, and Church Bay Services Limited and Joan Carpenters Limited in Auckland has prompted a warning from WorkSafe about safely working near powerlines. The most serious case took place when 25-year-old Irish national Sean Clear was electrocuted while working on a farm near Whakapapa Village in February last year. His mower had become bogged down, and a digger was brought in to pull it out. The vehicle contacted an overhead powerline carrying…
One person has died while two others were seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash near Thames this morning. The crash was reported just after 10.10am and occurred on State Highway 25 at Orongo. “One person sadly died at the scene, two other people were seriously injured,” police said. The road has been closed while the serious crash unit conducts a scene examination. “Inquiries into the circumstances of the crash are ongoing.”Hato Hone St John said the two seriously injured people were taken to Waikato Hospital by helicopter. One other person suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
The Ukrainian President warned that his brigades are unequipped to face Russia and that only continued US and European unity will enable Kyiv to prevail. ADVERTISEMENTUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday described a Hungarian proposal for a Christmas ceasefire and prisoner exchange as “not serious” and “political PR” and reiterated calls for Western allies to provide the war-torn country with security guarantees and additional weapons.Zelenskyy told reporters in Brussels after updating European Union leaders on the latest developments on the frontlines that he learnt about the Hungarian proposal “from mass media”.Viktor Orbán announced last Friday during his weekly address to the…
The economy was in a deeper-than-expected recession in the middle of the year, many sectors undergoing widespread contraction. Stats NZ data shows gross domestic product, the broad measure of economic growth, fell 1% in the three months to September, to be 1.5% lower than a year previously. Significant revisions to previous figures resulted in a fall of 1.1% in the June quarter, meeting the definition of a technical recession. These were the biggest quarterly falls since late 2021 at the height of the pandemic and lockdowns, but excluding those the six-monthly fall was the largest since mid-1991.…
MetService is forecasting a wet start to the weekend, but says conditions should be nice for most on Monday and Tuesday.MetService meteorologist Clare O’Connor said wet weather would set in from tomorrow in central and northern parts of the North Island and continue into the weekend “for almost the entire country”.”While there will be drier spots through the weekend, rain or showers are expected right across the country at various points of the weekend – make sure you are ready for all conditions, even if you are staying home,” she said.A heavy rain watch remained in place for Gisborne/Tairawhiti and…
Despite pure petrol cars maintaining the largest individual share, 48.3% of the total 10.7 million new cars registered in the EU for 2023 were hybrid and electric. ADVERTISEMENTIn 2023, 48.3% of the 10.7 million new cars registered in the EU were hybrid and electric vehicles.According to the latest Eurostat figures, this amount nearly equals the 48.8% share of traditional petrol and diesel cars.The number of battery-only electric passenger cars in the EU countries in 2023 also exceeded 4.4 million, which was about 88 times higher than in 2013 and 12 times higher than in 2018.Yet, pure petrol cars maintained the…