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Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard, All Blacks great Richie McCaw and a 75-year-old honouring his late wife are among the athletes racing from Kumara to New Brighton.

It all begins here, in Grand Rapids, MI in 2008, and, the fictional Herpolburg’s Department Store in 1967. Get it, Herpolsheimers and Wurzburgs! Two local and popular Grand Rapids department stores downtown a bit ago. The Santa Hat is, I think, going to be a Christmas classic. Produced by Teresa Thome and Patrick Ziegler of Fubble Entertainment here in Grand Rapids, an Emmy® Award winning company with  success in national entertainment television, web content development, new media based pr...

LINCOLN – Originally scheduled to be ready for use this month, the completion of the gymnasium renovation at Lincoln High School has been delayed again. Those close to the project have reported that the recently finished gym floor will need to be almost completely redone, setting the schedule back at least a month. The problem was discovered shortly after the new floor was installed, when Athletic Director Greg O’Connor walked the gym and noticed that the floor was uneven, with gaps betwe...

Judith Collins and David Seymour grill Jacinda Ardern on housing. OPINION: The last Question Time of the year is often likened to the last day of school – and not unfairly. MPs trade lighthearted barbs and take a swipe at the press gallery before adjourning the House and heading to Parliament’s end-of-year bash (hosted, I might add, by the very same press gallery they had been lashing minutes before). It was in this spirit that Finance Minister Grant Robertson was asked a silly patsy by hi...

That’s the equivalent of the entire annual budget for state highway improvements. The worst offenders were the Wellington Roads of National significance, which went $381m over budget, and a series of Auckland roads that went $352m over budget. The cost overruns were revealed in written Parliamentary questions to Green party transport spokesperson and former associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter. Genter said construction costs were increasing too fast. Ross Giblin Transmission G...

Thursday 10 December 2020 What: The Speaker and Greg O’Connor will launch the Parliamentary Coast to Coast team, who will compete alongside two teams from Porirua’s Aotea College. Media are invited to attend this launch where there will be an opportunity to hear from the Parliamentary team, Coast to Coast, and Aotea College. Where: Grand Hall, Parliament Buildings, Wellington When: Monday 14 December, 3.00pm – 3.30pm