Author: New Zealand Blog News Service

AI in courtrooms: Legal system grapples with GenAI challenges – Sasha Borissenko

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 19, 2025

AI tools risk breaching privacy by using sensitive, suppressed information.
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NZ’s infrastructure crisis: Unlocking Crown assets for renewal – Roger Partridge

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 18, 2025

OPINION: New Zealand faces a $210 billion infrastructure deficit with ageing systems.
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Cyclone Tam live updates: Moderate risk of thunderstorms as storm remains over Tasman Sea

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 17, 2025

A potential low-system is set to form on the northeast coast of New Zealand.
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Auckland Council report opposes Westmere helipad application for Anna Mowbray, Ali Williams: submissions released

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 16, 2025

All 1397 public submissions are out: 91% or 1277 opposed, 108 supporting, 12 are neutral.
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NZ horticultural exports: Vietnam expansion eyed after success with apples, cherries and kiwifruit

Post author By New Zealand Blog News Service
Post date April 15, 2025

New Zealand earned $172m from horticultural exports to Vietnam in 2024.
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Tory Whanau may have to sell Wellington mayoralty to make ends meet September 20, 2024
Tory Whanau has revealed that she’s struggling so much financially that she may have to part with her beloved mayoralty, that of New Zealand’s capital city, if she’s to fund her ever-diminishing lifestyle. Whanau was elected to lead Wellington in 2022, winning an overwhelming victory against the incumbent mayor: the evil version of Jason Gunn. […]
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Ukrainian militia receives defective shipment of pagers that just send and receive messages September 18, 2024
There’s been a major setback for one Ukrainian-backed militia on the Russian border, after the group ordered a large shipment of pagers to use as improvised explosive devices. The plan was to litter the pagers throughout abandoned homes and buildings in hopes of wounding Russian soldiers. But upon arrival of the shipment, routed through the […]
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Government directs Te Puni Kōkiri to conduct Māori Language Week in English September 17, 2024
The coalition government has issued a directive to Te Puni Kōkiri, the Ministry of Māori Development, instructing them that – in the interests of clear communication – they are to conduct this year’s Māori Language Week primarily or exclusively in English. The directive is in line with the Government’s policy – signaled when they came […]
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Government celebrates fact that New Zealand’s healthcare is so good people are queuing up for it at 5am September 17, 2024
At yesterday’s post-cabinet press conference, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, flanked by his Health Minister Shane Reti and someone we can’t independently verify was a real sign language interpreter, announced that he had some positive news for the country. “Alright team, I’m just going to hand over to uh, Dr. Shane, because I think he’s got […]
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Heartwarming: Thoughtful driver uses indicator to tell you what they’ve just done September 17, 2024
It’s 4:10pm in the morning, and you’re in the middle lane heading north on the great southern motorway of our nation’s capital, Auckland. There are no cars directly in front of you, but quite a few in the lane to your left. Suddenly, without warning, a black ute enters your lane, cutting in front of […]
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NPC teams will now be allowed to actually use the Ranfurly Shield in play September 17, 2024
Following decades of controversy, the governing body of New Zealand rugby, New Zealand Rugby, has ruled that the team currently holding the Ranfurly Shield may once again use it in play during the National Provincial Championship (NPC). The ruling restores the utility of a prize that for many years was rendered merely symbolic, after the […]
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Police say they won’t respond to bomb threats anymore as ‘it’s never anything’ September 16, 2024
Police Commissioner Andrew Coster says that New Zealand’s police force will no longer respond to bomb threats, in an attempt to cut costs and redirect police resources to less boring activities. Coster said that threat response and bomb disposal was a “fairly obvious” area for downsizing, as bomb threats are “never anything”, a “huge waste […]
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Air New Zealand flight attendant named CEO after one year on job November 30, 2021
New Zealand’s national carrier, Air New Zealand, has expressed great enthusiasm in announcing its new CEO today: 51-year-old Nathan Guy, a flight attendant who has spent about 1200 hours on the job. Guy joined the company as a fresh-faced, wide-eyed flight attendant serving now-reduced domestic routes in November of 2020, and has since spent a […]
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National Party board denies it unanimously agreed to Collins’ Faustian bargain with Satan November 26, 2021
National Party president Peter Goodfellow is today issuing a strong denial on behalf of the party’s board, saying they did not, at any point, agree to the Faustian bargain that National leader Judith Collins struck with the Evil One, Son of Perdition, the Devil Satan himself. When Collins became the leader of the National Party […]
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Super Saturday recap: Patrick Gower doesn’t know what he’s supposed to do October 16, 2021
It was Aotearoa’s first national day of action in over ten years, the first since 2010, when Prime Minister John Key tried to inspire us to clean up our nation’s berms. It didn’t work. Today, New Zealand’s berms are worse than ever. But history is not destiny, and other cliches. Today, we tried again, this […]
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'I thought I knew penguins. I was so wrong' April 21, 2025
Years of filming, often in extreme conditions, has provided new insights into the extraordinary challenges endured by penguins for a documentary series to be premiered on Monday, the eve of Earth Day.
Police concerned for missing Christchurch woman April 21, 2025
Rochelle Tabak, seen here in a photo from about 5 years ago. Photo: Supplied/Police Christchurch Police are appealing for any sightings of Rochelle Tabak (also known as Rochelle Fleming), who has been missing since Wednesday.
Appeal launched for missing Christchurch woman April 21, 2025
Rochelle Tabak, seen here in a photo from about 5 years ago. Photo: Supplied/Police Christchurch Police are appealing for any sightings of Rochelle Tabak (also known as Rochelle Fleming), who has been missing since Wednesday.
Appeal after fatally injured man found at bus stop April 21, 2025
Police want to hear about any suspicious activity at the scene. Photo: RNZ Police are appealing for help to find out who fatally injured a man in the Auckland suburb of Meadowbank.
War plans shared in second chat: report April 21, 2025
There are calls for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be dismissed over the blunders. Photo: Reuters US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of an attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, the New York Times reported on Sunday, raising more questions about his use […]
Liverpool just one win away April 20, 2025
Liverpool's Trent Alexander-Arnold celebrates scoring the team's only goal. Photo: REUTERS Liverpool will have to wait for a few more days to be crowned Premier league champions despite a 1-0 victory at Leicester City after Arsenal kept their slender hopes just about alive with a 4-0 romp at 10-man Ipswich Town.
Kyiv, Moscow accuse each other of breaking truce April 20, 2025
Ukrainian service members attend an Easter service near a front line in Dnipropetrovsk region. Photo: Volodymyr Petrov/Press Service of the 33rd Separate Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces/ via Reuters Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of hundreds […]
'Professional failures' in killings of Gaza medics April 20, 2025
Palestinians mourn medics, who came under Israeli fire while on a rescue mission, after their bodies were recovered last month. Photo: Reuters The Israeli military says a review into last month's killing of emergency responders in Gaza has found there had been "several professional failures" and a commander will be dismissed over the incident.
Pope greets cheering Easter crowds April 20, 2025
Pope Francis entered St Peter's Square on Sunday in an open-air popemobile for the first time since surviving double pneumonia, greeting tens of thousands of Catholics after the Vatican's celebration of Easter Mass.
A cultural history of the bagpipes April 20, 2025
Richard McLauchlan has written the new book The Bagpipes: A Cultural History. Photo: Hurst Publishers via RNZ From the Roman Empire to Russian Tsars and the Scottish Highlands, Richard McLauchlan's new book The Bagpipes: A Cultural History explores the mythology, history, and global reverberations of the instrument often as reviled for its volume as it is revered […]