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As most switch to mobile phones, the nation's copper network is slowly being phased out, with one big telco is planning to pull the plug year. AUDIO
RNZ     33 minutes ago
One of our biggest telcos plans to pull the plug next year.
NZHerald

“Upon arrival the brigade found a car and house well involved in fire.”
NZHerald     29 Apr 06:33 AM
Fire and Emergency says the person was rescued from the building but died of their injuries.
RNZ
A car and a house were first reported on fire
NZHerald

Newshub    
A New Zealand woman who as a child was abused by a member of a secretive sect under investigation says its leaders spent years trying to get the man to admit… AUDIO
RNZ

Specifically helping Chinese immigrants who came here in the early 1900s, Helen Wong started finding her own family as part of her daughter's school project.
1 News     29 Apr 2024 05:00
When Justine Murray returned to her hometown Tauranga in 1998, it was only then she heard about her eponymous tupuna, Paraone Koikoi.
RNZ

The Government’s “away for the day” ban on phones in all state schools comes into full effect today, and the rule doesn’t only apply to the classroom.
Stuff     29 Apr 2024 07:21
The first day of term two sees the cellphone prohibition policy come into effect nationwide, but some have doubts.
RNZ
A cellphone prohibition policy comes into effect throughout the country today, mandating schools to ensure pupils don't use or access to a phone during class time, lunchtime and breaks.
ODT

The children's ward at Rotorua Hospital will be missing a third of its beds as winter hits because Te Whatu Ora halted an upgrade partway through to review costs.
RNZ     22 minutes ago
Christchurch Hospital has apologised after families said it was removing meals for parents and caregivers on its children's cancer ward.
RNZ

Producing the food staple in New Zealand instead of relying on imports would help bolster food resilience, and reduce emissions, an ecologist says.
Stuff     29 Apr 2024 04:30
One organisation dished out $136,000 worth of food parcels in a year.
NZHerald

An Anzac Day service was held at the airfield on Thursday afternoon.
Stuff     29 Apr 2024 05:00

The systems essential to frontline crime fighting are in bad shape and need a bigger overhaul than expected, papers show.
RNZ     33 minutes ago
The systems essential to frontline crimefighting need a bigger overhaul than expected.
NZHerald

A fatal stabbing attack in Sydney was front of mind during a West Auckland mall during an armed robbery on Sunday, a retail worker says.
Stuff     29 Apr 2024 06:10
A fatal stabbing attack in Sydney was front of mind during a West Auckland mall during an armed robbery on Sunday, a retail worker says.
RNZ

Deep tech is big sky thinking that could transform our economy with processes that disrupt regular industrial methods.
1 News     28 Apr 2024 19:52
There is concern that our most vulnerable learners will be those who feel the impact.
NZHerald
'It continues to take our mothers, our fathers, our sons and our daughters.'
NZHerald

NZHerald    
'We’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg.'
NZHerald

One of the tenants pooed outside her door and another allegedly threw a woman off a balcony.
RNZ     15 minutes ago
The neighbour pooed outside her door and allegedly threw a woman off a balcony.
Stuff

Five years after Lachlan Jones’ body was found in the Gore wastewater ponds, an inquest into his death gets underway.
Stuff     29 Apr 2024 05:00
A coronial inquest into the death of a Gore toddler found in the town's wastewater treatment ponds is set to start in the Invercargill District Court .
RNZ
Five years after his body was found in the Gore wastewater ponds, an inquest into his death will get underway.
Stuff

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Monday, 29 April, 2024 9:04