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The low-key eateries we'd like to see get a Michelin star in New Zealand
They might be tiny, hole-in-the-wall spots but hungry diners are happy to queue to get a seat.

‘Bubbly, outgoing’ girl, 14, died after huffing deodorant with friend
A 14-year-old girl died at Whakatane Hospital after huffing deodorant, the coroner has found.

Teen's huffing death tragic, but not unique - coroner
Faith had been inhaling butane gas with a friend when she started shaking on the ground and foam began coming out of her mouth.

Anatomy of a downfall: How Jevon McSkimming's 29-year police career came to a shocking end
The country's second-highest ranking police officer oversaw road policing and operational services - he was also secretly watching child sexual exploitation and bestiality.

This free Chrome extension kills invasive email ‘tracking pixels’ dead
Email platforms in web browsers are very popular and easy to use. However, Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo each have their pitfalls. Many marketing messages, spam, or phishing attempts use tracking pixels, which are designed to spy on the user and send information back to the sender. With the Trocker browser...

Over 1 billion accounts were newly compromised. Check if you’re affected
Security expert Troy Hunt, who operates Have I Been Pwned, recently received 2 billion unique email addresses that were found across multiple malicious lists and internet sources, including 1.3 billion unique passwords. Like the 183 million breached email addresses from before, this data comes from an aggregated collection by...

Former Phoenix player prepares for first away derby with Auckland FC
Last season all the attention was on Alex Paulsen in the New Zealand derbies. Now Callan Elliot is in the spotlight.

Grand Designs NZ’s Round House is on the market
It was a first for the show: a $1.7m project, to build a two storey round house, and the builder was just 32 years old.

Liquor store near notorious party street wants to extend opening hours, but cops aren’t keen
Noise, broken glass and party goers on Castle St have caused issues for years, now authorities are looking at the nearest bottle store which is up for a licence renewal.

Sony is exploring one-time ‘cross-buy’ games on PC and PS5, leak shows
If you buy The Outer Worlds 2 or any number of major Microsoft-published games, you can play them on both Xbox and PC with the same purchase. Now that Sony is all in on supporting the PC platform with its first-party games, it might just be planning to support a...

The skills employers are looking for
The most in demand work-place skills are communication, relationship-building and team leadership, a new analysis suggests.

'Was it you?': Key witness in deadly prison beating denies giving evidence to save own skin
The key witness to a deadly prison beating was told in his first meeting with the lead detective that he was considered either a witness or a suspect.

Microsoft is working on a fix for Windows 11’s cluttered right-click menu
The Context Menu in Windows 11 (also known as the right-click menu) is meant to be a convenient shortcut for common actions, making it much easier to do various things via just a few simple clicks. But over time, the Windows 11 Context Menu has grown cluttered and unusable. Microsoft isn’t...

SanDisk’s ultra-tiny USB flash drive is built to live in your laptop forever
SanDisk is taking “the world’s smallest” USB flash drive, giving it a USB-C connector, and… that’s it. In fact, it’s small enough that this “removable” drive shouldn’t have to be removed, the company said. A representative appearing at the 2025 Pepcom Holiday Spectacular didn’t identify the model name, but it appeared...

‘They’ll buy dinner, but no drink’: Restaurants struggling as diners spend less
Restaurants across the country are struggling as patrons continue to tighten their purse strings.

In a split second by the pool, Samantha Hayes’ 6-year-old was underwater, and she was running
She grew up confident in the water, but one terrifying experience and a recent scare with her son have made Samantha Hayes a passionate voice for water safety in Aotearoa.