15 August 2025
State Highway 5 is closed south of Rotorua, after a petrol tanker rolled in the Whakarewarewa area, leaving one person dead
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15 Aug: Hopes Health New Zealand will boost staffing at Christchurch Hospital's Trauma Admitting Service, on the back of a study in today's New Zealand Medical Journal... more
15 Aug: Melbourne and Penrith have staged a golden point thriller to open round 24 of the NRL league season - Storm hooker Harry Grant's turned Harry Houdini with a dummy in front of the posts to score the try which won the match 22-18... more
15 Aug: James O'Connor will assume the playmaking duties for the Wallabies as they seek to build on their third-test win over the Lions with a victory away against the Springboks to start the Rugby Championship... more
15 Aug: A security contractor held a senior role in what a US legal service says is an "anti-government extremist group" linked to the hard right. Now he works on an Israel- and US-backed humanitarian aid project in Gaza.... more
15 Aug: Rayyan Arkan Dikha became a social media sensation for his spontaneous dance atop a racing boat. Now, there are warnings of impersonators trying to profit off his fame.... more
15 Aug: The 57-year-old presenter - who has Katie, 33, and Kevin, 31, with ex-wife Gina Maddy and Jane, 11, and Billy, eight, with spouse Molly McNearney - has Italian heritage on his mother's side so sought to obtain official links to Europe because he is so unhappy with the state of the US under the presidency of Donald Trump... more
15 Aug: The 79-year-old music icon has offered some advice to her friends Kelly and Reba McEntire following the death of Blackstock - who was Kelly's ex-husband and Reba's stepson - and touched on her own experiences with grief after her husband Carl Thomas Dean died earlier this year aged 82... more
RUGBY James O'Connor will assume the playmaking duties for the Wallabies as they seek to build on their third-test win over the Lions with a victory away against the Springboks to start the Rugby Championship More...
BUSINESS Changes have passed to the wide-reaching Resource Management Act - before a major overhaul planned for 2027 More...
