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WELLINGTON, New Zealand &#8212 A health scare on a flight from Japan to New Zealand appears to be nothing more serious than a seasonal outbreak of influenza.

The Kiwis are not very optimistic this year, according to a survey that tracks 20 years of New Zealand's mood as a nation.

The Kiwis are not very optimistic this year, according to a survey that tracks 20 years of New Zealand's mood as a nation.

A tomahawk-wielding man has been sentenced to three years and four months jail for assaulting two recent Asian immigrants as he tried to rob their Havelock North dairy.

Higher petrol prices, road tolls and even a rise in GST are being dangled in front of Aucklanders as options to pay for a $2.4 billion inner-city rail loop and other transport projects.

Bob White, SCF board member and director from 1993 to 2009. Director for Allan Hubbard's Aorangi Securities from September 2003 to July 2008.

Bob White, SCF board member and director from 1993 to 2009. Director for Allan Hubbard's Aorangi Securities from September 2003 to July 2008.

A former Dunedin man who has helped raise funds for the Canterbury earthquake appeal has been named the UK New Zealander of the Year 2012.

Caprella mutica, or the Japanese skeleton shrimp, originates in northern Asia, but spread to waters off Europe and North America in the past four decades.

The two remaining unidentified defendants in the Serious Fraud Office prosecution of former associates of South Canterbury Finance are expected to be identified tomorrow.

Who would have imagined that an image of Piri Weepu bottle feeding his baby would have caused such an outrage? The criticism from overzealous supporters of breastfeeding resulted in the image being removed from a forthcoming ad campaign.

Bigwigs: cars wend their way down a lane cleared through the rubble of the 1931 Napier earthquake in a scene which may resonate with Christchurch people upset that only dignitaries appear to be getting access to the Chch CBD.

Model and actress Rachel Hunter has helped release a juvenile kiwi chick into the wild in the Hawke's Bay, the 100th to be hatched and released by private kiwi breeding project Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust.

What on earth are we going to do about Waitangi Day? And, more to the point, what on earth are we going to do about the Treaty of Waitangi, which has wormed its way into almost every economic and/or social interaction in the country? This whole Treaty business seems to have got right out of hand, and if something isn't done about it fairly quickly, ... (more)

Ethnic Affairs Minister Judith Collins has been told in a briefing paper that ethnic groups are pushing to have multicultural policy "entrenched" in any future New Zealand constitution.

IT'S taken nearly 140 years, but by the end of next week New Zealand should finally have been conquered by a penny-farthing. Oamaru's David Wilson is nearing the end of his trip of more than 2000 kilometres, from Stewart Island to Cape Reinga, on his replica 1882 penny-farthing, which has a 1.4-metre front wheel and weighs 57 kilograms.

Crown Prince Tupouto'a Lavaka, at the Tonga Football Association headquarters in Veitongo, football boots, t-shirts and balls were presented by the Regan Milstein Foundation The Foundation, was founded to help disadvantaged kids to get involved in sport, in the memory of his sports-loving teenage son, Regan, who died while scuba diving in 2010.

Lloyd Morrison, the leading businessman and proud New Zealander who died in Seattle yesterday of cancer, was not as well known as he ought to have been.