Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 13/5/2024
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The residents of an island in Northland are grappling with an unusual problem - they have too many kiwi....
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition....
The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households’ demand on Friday....
A super security and intelligence agency recommended four years ago and said to be “not too far away” last August, is under “active consideration” by Cabinet....
Wellington City Council have put plans to build a permanent cycleway in Brooklyn on hold after losing over half of its funding. Waka Kotahi was expected to fund 51 percent through the Transport Choices fund, however Transport Minister Simeon Brown confirmed there would be no funding for the project in December....
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday....
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A while back I made a post about Lemmy.world federation and a lot has changed since then so I thought I’d do an update post....
Jamie Arbuckle, the Marlborough councillor who became an MP, says he has settled into having two roles so comfortably he’s going to keep both salaries after all....
One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before....
International testing indicated New Zealand had more bad readers among its 10-year-olds than other developed nations, but the picture improved for teenagers....
When Eugene Dementyev heard a tap at his back door, he thought it was a cat - and was shocked to discover it was a kiwi....
Corrections has spent over $305,000 on slushy syrup and maintaining frozen ice machines in the past six years....
A New Zealand team has taken home gold at the Cheerleading World Championships in the US....
How long is too long to spend in a 24-hour gym? Can you do too much squatting?...
The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend....
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Analysis: Burning less coal to make electricity helped New Zealand achieve its biggest official annual drop in planet-heating gases since records started in 1990....
Residents of a small Selwyn community say they will keep fighting to save their homes after being told they must vacate them by 2039....
A man and woman were found dead at the Anzac Valley Road address in Waitākere before 7.30am....
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A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed “thief” at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt “racially discriminated” against and embarrassed during the “horrible” birthday incident....
Napier’s former prison is closing due to safety concerns, leaving the man who runs tours through the site unhappy he will be locked out....
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