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Today in the Rotorua District Court he pleaded guilty to one charge of kidnapping and was remanded in custody for sentencing on August 23. The victim, Ana Eriepa, 37, a Rotorua mother-of-three, was dragged over asphalt for more than a kilometre as the car sped along State Highway 1 near Lichfield, between Tokoroa and Putaruru.

The number of women ringing the breast cancer helpline tripled following Angelina Jolie's decision to undergo a double mastectomy.

In yesterday's article I laid out the chronic disease in our housing market and laid the blame for that long-set problem squarely on the doorstep of both the Reserve Bank's direction to commercial banks to lend on mortgages until they're giddy, and the politicians who can but won't remove the tax break for housing - their personal survival as ... (more)

Many of the carparking assets of New Zealand-owned and operated Tournament Parking have been sold to Southeast Asia's biggest player Wilson Parking.

A Levin man is intensive care in a stable condition in Palmerston North Hospital after he was assaulted in his own home.

Supre clothing store was targeted by a gang of shoplifters, to the disgust of store manager Stacey Handley and shop assistant Zoe Johnstone-Smith.

Top Returning home for Swan Lake , Australian Ballet principal artist Ty King-Wall.

The pair accused of abducting and bashing a 32-year-old local man in the Kaimai Ranges plan to defend the allegations at trial.

How many snapper should anyone be allowed to catch in a day's fishing? Readers who do not go fishing for fun might be surprised at the bag limit: nine.

Police say more than one person might have been involved in the killing of Paeroa pizza-maker Jordan Voudouris but they could be too frightened to come forward with information.

The New Zealand Republic debate does not need to be centered on whether or not New Zealanders should support the Queen and her successors.

A laptop through Computers Against Isolation is helping autistic Rotorua boy Edward Haynes talk to family and come out of his shell.

Terri Judd is a reporter with The Independent, who writes regularly on defence issues, having repeatedly embedded with British troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A customer comforts a member of the shop owner's family after Opononi's Four Square was razed by fire.

Libby, the cat left for dead in a car destined to be crushed at a wrecker's yard, has been adopted by an Auckland couple.

The man accused of stabbing to death the mother of his children in Havelock North earlier this month appeared in court today charged with murder.

It has been a week of challenging television viewing - challenging even without catching much Seven Sharp .

Writer Stephen Sinclair, 56, is best known for co-writing Ladies Night and working with Sir Peter Jackson on Meet the Feebles, Braindead and The Lord of the Rings.

The man who was at the wheel of a vehicle that killed Morrinsville jogger Joanna Mellow nearly two months ago will soon know if he is to face charges.

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is investing NZ$30m in expanding storage capabilities at its dry distribution centre in Whareroa.