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OPINION: Our daughter said this week she couldn't see it being a good idea to have a kid.
This was disappointing to hear because for one thing, I want to see if our family stock can produce someone even louder than her great-great-grandfather.
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Read more: My daughter no longer wants to have children because of the climate crisis
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/opinion/115306759/my-daughter-no-longer-wants-to-have-children-because-of-the-climate-crisis
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At his current rate of repayments, Paul Cronin will be 76 before he clears the mortgage on his Morrinsville property.
He pays about $325 a week and also has a student loan debt of about $20,000.
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Read more: More Kiwis battling lifelong mortgages
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115411470/more-kiwis-battling-lifelong-mortgages
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A man has died after a police pursuit in the Bay of Plenty overnight.
Bay of Plenty road policing manager Inspector Brent Crowe said initial indications were that the 27-year-old died after losing control of his vehicle on a a sweeping right-hand bend in Whakatāne.
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Read more: Man, 27, dies after police pursuit in Whakatāne
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115444206/man-27-dies-after-police-pursuit-in-whakatane
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Imagine Fire and Emergency New Zealand setting up a national police force. Or KiwiRail building its own state highway network across the country.
It may seem far-fetched to have two taxpayer-funded government entities doing the same thing.
But that's how WeatherWatch managing director Philip Duncan describes the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa) competing with long-term government-sanctioned forecaster and state-owned enterprise MetService.
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Read more: Competing weather forecasts from two separate Govt agencies labelled 'absurd'
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115296637/competing-weather-forecasts-from-two-separate-govt-agencies-labelled-absurd
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The daughter of a senior Hells Angel gang member was recruited into Police College, then suspended shortly before her wing graduated after the relationship was vetted more closely.
The young woman declared the family ties to her father - it is believed she claimed to be estranged from him - during the application process and was accepted into the 16-week programme this year.
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Read more: Gangster's daughter recruited by police, then suspended
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/daughter-of-hells-angel-recruited-into-police-college-is-now-subject-of-employment-investigation/
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A North Shore teenager who admitted raping two schoolgirls and violating another - while they were too drunk to stop him - has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention on the basis of his age and previous good character.
The sentence has outraged victim advocates and those who know the teen, saying it sends a dangerous and "awful" message to other young men.
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Read more: Outrage as teen who raped schoolgirls gets home detention
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/crime/outrage-as-teen-repeat-rapist-gets-home-detention-what-message-does-this-send/?fbclid=IwAR3S9SQ1abXat3-mQEVMUvg0k62nHPrZbvNxM91SqAFVXU2lJ9-Vjv6KqI0
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Seven thousand employees at The Warehouse will now be paid a living wage after four days of negotiations.
The company has now agreed to the deal, which would see the majority of First Union members earning a living wage.
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Read more: Living wage on the way for 7000 Warehouse staff
- Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/160979-living-wage-on-way-7000-warehouse-staff.html
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At least 10 teenagers have been injured - five critically - after gunfire broke out at a United States high school football game.
The shooting at Ladd-Peebles stadium in Mobile, Alabama happened just after a game between Leflore High School and Williamson High School finished.
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Read more: Teenagers shot at United States high school football game
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/08/teenagers-shot-at-united-states-high-school-football-game.html
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