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Liquidators have formally demanded nearly $800,000 from the director of a failed eco-travel company who lost millions of dollars in customer...

Jamie Davidson left New Zealand for Germany to compete in the World Summer Games.

Sheryl Yesucevitz should have been working with indigenous villagers deep within an Amazon Rainforest last month.
Instead, she found herself among hundreds

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Monday, 5 July 2021, 3:42 pm Supporting young people to be successful and confident in the face of adversity is a daily job for the staff at Youth Inspire – and is something they’ll be better able to provide for the most at-risk rangatahi, thanks to new government funding. This Lower Hutt-based charity has been providing employment and driver licence training for local rangatahi (young people) since 2014, helping those rangatahi overcome the barriers stopping them from being able to take ...

Fusion5 bolsters its CPM play as Cortell Australia targets the New Zealand market

Grant Quinn and Colin Bailey hold a unique place in Special Olympics history

The investigation, which began in July last year, was launched after an inmate allegedly arranged the trafficking of drugs into New Zealand using illicit cell phones. From March 23, until May 13 last year, no visitors were allowed into the prison, due to New Zealand being under alert levels 3 and 4. The most common items of contraband found during lockdown at Rimutaka Prison were communication devices. Responding to questions from Stuff, prison director Viv Whelan said while visitors could ...

CORRECTIONS/SUPPLIED One of the Urban Kai Networks five farms at Rimutaka Prison. Common Unity founder Julia Milne co-ordinates the project, which produces meals for children at four schools and for Womens Refuge. More than 30 inmates, seven charity staff and a base of 300 volunteers harvest the crops, which are made into meals at their community kitchen and base, the ReMakery, in the Lower Hutt suburb of Fairfield, and distributed around the community to at least four schools and Womens Refug...

getwellymoving.co.nz A mass public transport system is due to be constructed between Wellington Railway Station and the airport as part of the $6.4 billion Lets Get Wellington Moving programme. Lower Hutt-based politicians from across the political spectrum have joined forces in a renewed push to save the only direct bus service connecting the “forgotten” Hutt Valley to Wellington Airport. On Monday, Labour MP for Hutt South Ginny Andersen​, National list MP Chris Bishop​, Lower Hutt m...