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📢 One of the contractors trying to locate victims at Mount Maunganui after last month’s deadly incident was bitten by a police search and rescue dog.
Mount Maunganui landslide: Contractor bitten by police search dog on site
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February 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
📢 An Auckland man says he couldn’t sleep for nights on end after a construction digger arrived in front of his suburban home and started ripping up the footp
Fletcher Living says noisy night-time digging outside people’s homes not its fault
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February 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
📢 Almost immediately after property developer Andrew Montgomerie smashed a glass of vodka soda on to a colleague’s neck amid “banter” about unpaid bills, he

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Auckland developer Andrew Montgomerie testifies at his wounding trial
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February 3, 2026 at 8:03 AM
📢 Three Mongrel Mob members were driving a badly injured associate to Rotorua Hospital when they pulled over and made a plan.
Three Mongrel Mob members plead guilty to making false statements about Zain Taikato Fox’s death
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February 3, 2026 at 7:53 AM
📢 An Auckland couple who accidentally received $158,000 in an account transfer error in what they labelled a “blessing from God” told police they thought the
Auckland couple who received $158,000 in account transfer error sentenced, lose name suppression
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February 3, 2026 at 7:43 AM
📢 Sticky nights are set to exit Auckland as cooler and more “comfortable” weather rolls in.

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Auckland humidity eases as cooler nights forecast and sticky heat fades
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February 3, 2026 at 3:33 AM
📢 Jeffrey Epstein denied he was the “devil” and insisted he was only the lowest level of sexual predator in a video interview included in the latest release

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Jeffrey Epstein denied he was ‘the devil’ in video from latest file dump
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February 3, 2026 at 2:43 AM
📢 Senior Labour MP Peeni Henare is leaving politics after not putting his hand up for his former Tāmaki Makaurau seat or for a place on the Labour Party’s li
Waitangi 2026: Senior Labour MP Peeni Henare leaving politics, set to exit Parliament in coming weeks
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February 3, 2026 at 2:33 AM
📢 Police in Arizona said today that they believe the mother of top United States news anchor Savannah Guthrie has been kidnapped, after the elderly woman wen

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Mother of top US news anchor missing with police in Arizona suspecting she has been kidnapped
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February 3, 2026 at 1:53 AM
📢 Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is doubling down on his proposal to have a second harbour crossing built over Meola Reef, flatly rejecting the Government’s tunn
Second Waitematā Harbour crossing: Auckland mayor Wayne Brown pushes for Meola Reef bridge plan over tunnel option
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February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
📢 A cafe owner who has money laundering charges against him says he was “humiliated” and publicly vilified on social media during an Employment Relations Aut
Inside Sunflour cafe owner’s unfair dismissal: Gang links, arson and $465k in withdrawals
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February 3, 2026 at 1:33 AM
📢 A damning new report shows nearly 90% of Auckland primary schools say there’s an increase in new entrants who do not know basics like how to talk, spell th
Auckland primary school children are missing basic skills such as talking, eating and toileting
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February 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
📢 While New Zealand summers are typically associated with outdoor barbecues and beach trips, parts of Canterbury are experiencing the opposite, with snow fal
Weather: Summer snow on Mt Hutt as South Island lashed by rain
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February 3, 2026 at 1:23 AM
📢 Briscoe Group has reported record sales for its fourth quarter after strong homeware and sporting good purchases over the holiday period, although margins
Briscoe Group reports record fourth-quarter sales as Rebel Sport drives growth
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February 3, 2026 at 12:33 AM
📢 Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken over his artificial intelligence company xAI in a merger aimed at deploying space-based data centres, the company said.
Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX in bid to build space data centres
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February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
📢 Mount Maunganui Asian-fusion street food dining restaurant Fox’s Hawker House has closed and gone into liquidation.
Mount Maunganui restaurant Fox’s Hawker House closes up, in liquidation
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February 3, 2026 at 12:23 AM
📢 After a woman signalled the “thumbs down” at a police officer when driving past him, he pursued her and ripped her top as he tried to grab her, exposing he
IPCA finds police officer’s use of force on woman who gave him ‘thumbs down’ was unlawful
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February 3, 2026 at 12:13 AM
📢 The Government has confirmed a raft of changes to New Zealand’s driver licence testing regime, including ending the need for Kiwis to undergo a practical t
Driver licence test changes confirmed: No full licence practical test, longer time as learner
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February 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM
📢 A light plane with damaged landing gear has safely landed at Hawke’s Bay Airport after drama in mid-air prompted an emergency response.

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Damaged plane lands after mid-air drama at Hawke’s Bay Airport
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February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
📢 One of the country’s largest iwi will attend national Waitangi events in the Bay of Islands for the first time in more than two decades as a show of unity

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Waitangi 2026: Ngāi Tahu attending for the first time in more than 20 years, as senior Labour MP considers future
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February 2, 2026 at 9:53 PM
📢 Kiwi rapper Tom Francis' potential musical career in the United States has helped save him from an assault conviction.
US career hopes help NZ rapper, Tom Francis, escape assault conviction after parking Lamborghini in disabled space
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February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
📢 The Toyota Aqua has topped Aotearoa’s annual most-stolen car list for the fourth consecutive year.
Toyota Aqua named New Zealand’s most stolen car for the fourth year
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February 2, 2026 at 6:33 PM
📢 The man who died in a Waitārere Beach incident, in which his wife and her two sons were critically injured by gunshot, is believed to have suffered a stab

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Man killed in Waitārere Beach incident, Ben Timmins, suffered stab wound, not gunshot
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February 2, 2026 at 6:13 PM
📢 An Auckland school suffered tens of thousands of dollars in damage after classrooms and technology were vandalised.
Snells Beach School vandalism: Classrooms, devices and windows damaged
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February 2, 2026 at 8:13 AM
📢 The two people killed in a helicopter crash in the Paekākāriki Hill area near Wellington last week have been named by police.
Police name victims of Paekākāriki Hill helicopter crash
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February 2, 2026 at 8:03 AM