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How parole is decided in New Zealand

📢 Disclaimer: This video is not footage of a real hearing and the people appearing before the board were volunteers playing a part. They are not offenders.

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‘Old boys club’ at Corrections enabling sexism, and worse, in the workplace, union says

📢 Months after a report revealed 25% of staff had experienced sexual harassment, Corrections has been slow to tackle its culture problem, union says.

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Tom Sainsbury: Dinner party with disgraced arts patron James Wallace inspired my play

📢 Writer recalls evening at now-convicted sex offender’s mansion

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‘Take the girl’: The kidnapping of Gloria Kong

📢 One night in June 1983, masked gunmen burst into the Kong family home near Oamaru and abducted 14-year-old Gloria Kong.

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Phone repair worker avoids conviction after trying to AirDrop customer’s nude photo

📢 The woman’s friend posted a video on TikTok saying a male employee at Mobile Planet in an Auckland mall had tried to send himself the photos.

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James Wallace case: Regrets over support for convicted sex abuser

📢 Dozens of letters presented to court helped disgraced arts patron get reduced sentence.

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‘Despicable’: Three Chinese nationals jailed over ‘sophisticated’ blessing scam

📢 The trio were arrested trying to leave New Zealand after fleecing cash and jewellery from unsuspecting victims in a scam that a judge called “abhorrent”.

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Stuff's new true crime podcast series

📢 The Artful Dodger is about the case of disgraced arts patron James Wallace and some big questions it raised. Co-producer Kate Langdon explains why she wanted to investigate and what she learned.

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Watch: Two notorious intersections in Wellington - and how to get through them

📢 These intersections could be unusable and “really dangerous” at times.

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Long wait for surgery after status downgraded from urgent

📢 A woman’s spinal surgery was repeatedly delayed after she was downgraded from 'urgent' to 'elective'.

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Should Christchurch ratepayers get cheap tickets for 30 years of new stadium costs?

📢 Christchurch’s new stadium at Te Kaha is set to open in April 2026, with ratepayers covering costs for the next 30 years. So should ratepayers get cheap tickets in return?

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Proceeds of Crime Fund re-opening to community after three-year freeze

📢 Money and assets seized from criminals and put in the Proceeds of Crime Fund will be available to applications focused on reducing violent crime

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Judge says woman’s degrading violence against teen amounted to ‘torture’

📢 She forced a boy to eat dog faeces and used toilet paper. She also subjected him to beatings with weapons.

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Trapping, training, and teamwork: Rodney kiwi populations flying high

📢 Wild kiwi populations in Rodney are thriving after years of work being done by community-led conservation groups to reduce pest populations.

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Damaged and disputed: the battle for Panmure’s iconic sign

📢 With the future of the Panmure sign hanging in the balance, a community group has hit out at the Local Board for a lack of transparency.

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$7.2m in government funding for Marton rail hub pulled

📢 It was withdrawn because of developer investment uncertainty, project delays and approval conditions not satisfied within time frames.

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Man arrested for murder and wounding in Hamilton

📢 Police apprehend suspect involved in attack that left one man dead and another critically injured.

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Family fears for the future of their inherited bach after wealthy neighbour buys up a share

📢 The family is now navigating co-ownership and allege there have been difficulties with access and control of their beloved bach.

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Police seek help locating 24-year-old man missing since car crash in Waikato

📢 The man, named only as Joseph, was involved in an accident on Tihoi Road/SH32 on Wednesday and hasn’t been since.

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Farmer fined $130,000 for mass death of eels in Southland

📢 Thousands of eels died in a Southland stream after it ‘’ran black’’ with effluent, and the ecological harm was significant and likely to be intergenerational.

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A gang member’s execution and a fabricated vigilante attack

📢 After shooting a gang member outside Christmas church service, the gunman and his partner fabricated an attack on their home in a desperate bid to keep his name secret.

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‘Constant anxiety’ for Auckland family as they battle to stop neighbour using their address

📢 With two letterboxes with the same number on the same road, it’s understandable how things could go wrong.

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Wellington’s emergency housing rates plummet, but people sleeping rough ‘going in the wrong direction’

📢 Anthony, a homeless resident of the capital who describes himself as “a Bear Grylls”, says it is noticeable that people have less to give.

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Watch: 91-year-old brings the toe-tapping joy

📢 Dementia patients are “the best singers,” says Peter Brophy, 91, who is constantly amazed at his gigs.

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Three years’ jail for ‘brain snap’ traffic light stabbing

📢 Avishek Chaudhary agreed to fight a stranger at a busy Christchurch intersection. Then he reached for a pair of scissors.

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Rockwall removal bond ‘stuns’ local residents

📢 Locals have applied for a resource consent for a rock wall to protect homes from coastal erosion, but were shocked to discover a council policy allowing the wall to be removed at any time, and that they would have to front up a bond to pay for it.

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New legislation could mean Marlburians pay more for water

📢 Under Local Water Done Well, the council will not be able to fund its water infrastructure with its Port Marlborough dividends as it does now.

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Ponsonby dairy run by same family for over 100 years up for sale

📢 Jairam’s Dairy & Flower Shop was first opened in 1915 and has become an icon of Ponsonby Road.

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Teen who fired air pistol at road worker sentenced

📢 The road worker ended up with a large purple welt on her leg, and no longer feels safe working on Southland roadsides, a court has heard.

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Top surfer drowned on day Aramoana waves were almost ‘unsurfable’

📢 Surfer who paddled to the rescue attempted CPR on his board, before help arrived to take him to shore.

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