An off-duty police officer has been disciplined after stopping a boy who appeared to be tagging a public toilet. It's a sad state of affairs when a law enforcement officer is busted for doing his job...
The Maori Party has announced that it will be supporting the unamended S59 repeal bill – the so-called "anti-smacking" Bill – of Green MP Sue Bradford. The announcement was made moments ago by Maori Party Co-Leader Dr Peter Sharples...
They scale chimneys, they sail the seven seas – they're green and mean, and there's not much the campaigners of Greenpeace won't risk to promote the cause. Geoff Taylor reports in teh Waikato Times after Huntly...
The ancient battle of Thermopylae is 2007's first blockbuster, taking in US$70 million on opening weekend. Directed by Zack Snyder, adapted from Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" stars Gerard Butler as Leonidas, king of the Greek city state of Sparta, who leads his vastly outnumbered men...
Xtramsn split on March 1 - here are some NetRatings stats showing what we know. msn.co.nz and yahooxtra are not showing up, but we can tell from xtra and from tv3 numbers a lot of what is going on.
Get up offa that chair and dance till you feel better - long hours spent sitting and submitting stories to Scoopit could be bad for your health. Office workers and sedentary types could be at serious risk of deep vein thrombosis - more so than on a long haul flight...
Auckland City events organiser Pak Peacock said last night’s crowd was the largest he had seen at the Domain for years. Auckland Festival patron and Prime Minister Helen Clark jointly opened the Auckland Festival, AK07 with Mayor Dick Hubbard with rallying cries of support from the crowd...
Last week the Fijian military went hunting for the authors of the blog Intelligentsiya, accusing them of accusing them of "portraying a negative image of the Interim Government". They haven't caught them yet, but their hunt has had other results...
Over the weekend, the European Union decisively took the lead in the climate change debate by committing to a unilateral 20% cut in emissions by 2020. But this isn't just a matter of domestic policy and the EU being green - this is about putting a stake in the ground for negotiations...
"This is one of the last Air NZ cookies that were given out for free on the domestic service. Collected on a flight from Wellington to Auckland last night."
Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe there's no need to feel bad. The truth about the "global warming" myth, on Google video...
New Zealand writers have just three weeks left to enter their work in the 2007 Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Unpublished Manuscript Award. The Ashton Wyle Charitable Trust, in association with the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA), offers two national ...
The Sunday Star Times reports that the average conviction rate for rapes has gone down from 38% in 1986-1995 to 31% for 1996-2005. I would be interested to know how what percentage of guilty pleas occurred in each decade, and what the actual conviction rates for contested rapes are...
