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The University of Otago had to postpone eight graduation ceremonies following the threat. (File photo) The woman accused of threatening an attack which would have surpassed the March 15 terror events will continue to keep her name secret, for now. The 22-year-old woman is charged with threatening to carry out a firearms and explosives attack against students in Dunedin on December 7 and 8 and appeared at the Auckland District Court on Friday. The charging document alleges she threatened a violent act that was of a “magnitude surpassing the March 15 Christchurch mosque massacres”. Her l...

Influx of students brings new life, culture to P.E.I. school once slated for closure A school in Belfast, P.E.I. that was struggling with dwindling enrolment and heading for closure four years ago is now thriving and about to welcome its largest kindergarten class in at least a decade. Social Sharing

A HEART patient is beating the odds by walking more than 120 miles to raise money for the Southampton charity that treated him. Matthew Cornick, 27, set himself the challenge to walk 122.2 miles during lockdown for Wessex Heartbeat – raising vital money and awareness for the charity which took care of him during ten open-heart surgeries and numerous other procedures. The 122.2 miles is the exact mileage from his home in Dorset to Wessex Heartbeat’s Heartbeat House, the 25-bedroom home-from-home which serves the families of those undergoing treatment at Southampton’s Cardiac Centre...

Steamboat regatta on the Whanganui River on February 27 to March 1 25 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Steamboats Romany and Victoria from Auckland will join Steve McClune's Mary Rose (foreground) for a regatta on the Whanganui River this weekend. Photo / Supplied Liz Wylie is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleliz.wylie@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron Anyone who enjoys the sights and sounds of steamboats chuffing on the Whanganui River is in for a treat this weekend as a fleet of small vessels converge for a regatta. Local steam enthusiast Steve McClune has taken his boat Mary Ros...

Dominion Rd murder: Rikki-Lee Simeon guilty of murdering her partner Brendon Hamilton 24 Feb, 2021 03:28 AM 3 minutes to read A young mother has been found guilty of murdering her 21-year-old partner Brendon Hamilton. Almost two years after Hamilton died in his Dominion Rd flat and more than two weeks after Rikki-Lee Simeon pleaded not guilty to murder, jurors reached a verdict at 3.40pm on Wednesday. Hamilton, 21, was stabbed in the neck in the Mt Eden apartment and died the same day his and Simeon's daughter Shyanne turned 1 year old. Brendon Izaac Lee Hamilton was 21. Photo / Supplied The ...