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Forestry report: Export log prices provide winter relief – Marcus Musson

Opinion: June brought the highest export log prices for winter's first month since 2021.

'My heart goes out': Cafe feeds homeless with pay it forward meals

Each week on Koha Monday the cafe offers free meals, funded by a 'pay it forward' system.

Best house, worst street? Compare your home's valuation with others in your area

How does your home's value compare within your street, neighbourhood and suburb?

Letters: The war drums are now beating

OPINION: This coalition prides itself on cutting costs, but is in fact spending more.

Parents gaming system as top Auckland schools close rolls to out-of-zone pupils

Some schools have hired private investigators to identify 'fraudulent' applications.

Editorial: Residents have every right to be upset over cell towers

OPINION: Who wants a giant, ugly, industrial-looking pole near their home?

Simon Wilson: Auckland housing, Wayne Brown’s big plan and the silliness of the new speed rules

Opinion: Density is coming whether you like it or not and Wayne Brown has a bold new plan.

'Incredible grief': Beloved rugby player, dad and koro's death shatters community

Adam Vardey leaves a hole behind in the community he was deeply involved with.

Thomas Coughlan: What if Dame Jacinda Ardern were just an ordinary leader?

OPINION: She's not as saintly nor as demonic as people who are obsessed with her claim.

'Distressing': Neighbours rattled by attack on sweet older couple in Auckland

Photos show broken furniture strewn about and blood smeared on the walls.

'Shambles': Coroner slams police probe, calls for fresh inquiry into Gore 3yo’s death

The coroner blasted police for their initial investigation into Lachie Jones' death.

Child seriously injured after hit by car, section of Henderson road closed at rush hour

Newington Rd is closed between Great North and Kereru Rds.

New Magpies assistant coach sought to replace Bryn Evans

Bryn Evans began helping to coach the Magpies soon after the end of his playing career.

'You took my mummy away from me': Yanfei Bao's daughter's 'chilling' words to killer

Tingjun Cao has been sentenced today for the murder of Yanfei Bao in Christchurch in 2023.

Driver gets Jeep stuck in river trying to avoid group who allegedly assaulted him

Firefighters had to haul the half-submerged vehicle from a flooded ford.

‘Free-for-all’: Concerns Govt oil/gas ban reversal will open up mining all over NZ

Resources Minister Shane Jones is offering up "all acreage" across New Zealand.

'One fatality', three injured in Te Aroha crash

Diversions are in place as police attend the scene of a two-car accident.

Woman put in a kennel, suffers miscarriage in meth-fuelled family violence ordeal

The woman also suffered wounds to the bone caused by her partner, Joel Leef.