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Pacific football weekend: Mataks clinch OFC futsal crown as PNG, Vanuatu take Melanesian titles
Solomons Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu were winners at two different football competitions across the Pacific over the weekend.

Rider dies at Auckland’s Woodhill Mountain Bike Park
The park will remain closed until Thursday to support staff and the park's riding community.

Concerned parents tried calling hospital staff before baby was stillborn
The husband was unable to make contact with the midwife as the bedside phone had been switched to "block caller mode".

Our Changing World: Restoring native plants in our lakes and rivers
Rolling out Rototurf - the project aimed at helping native freshwater plants return to our lakes.

Why the Uber drivers' victory will be trumped by Parliament
Unions who won an employment case for four Uber drivers in three different courts could find the ruling short-lived, with the introduction of new legislation

Has the 'Temu effect' claimed another victim?
NZSale closed for business on Sunday and GrabOne went into liquidation last month, citing financial constraints.

Lawyers of Judge Ema Aitken facing judicial conduct hearing want clarity
The Judicial Conduct Panel will consider Judge Ema Aitken's behaviour at a hearing in February next year.

Cook Islands 'will continue to act in good faith' with New Zealand - Mark Brown
The Cook Islands government says it is working to stabilise its strained relationship with New Zealand, but not at the cost of its independence. It comes after Aotearoa extended its...

Nvidia’s latest driver patch restores FPS performance in Windows 11
Windows 11 was actually supposed to be the optimized operating system for gaming, at least that’s what Microsoft promised. Instead, many users are still struggling with problems that impair the performance of numerous games on Microsoft’s current operating system. Things got particularly bad with October’s Patch Tuesday and update KB5066835, which...

Lessons from boot camp trial, Oranga Tamariki says, but earlier reviews showed same themes
Documents seen by RNZ show many of the lessons Oranga Tamariki says it learnt a lot from the coalition's boot camp trial were identifed more than a decade ago and shared with the programme designers.

Best Amazon Black Friday tech deals
Once again, the holiday deals season is upon us. Now, besides just encompassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Amazon has designated this week “Black Friday Week,” meaning you can start taking advantage of big saving now. Granted, sifting through it all can feel overwhelming, which is where PCWorld’s tech experts...

Mysterious, flu-like illness leaves Canterbury teen temporarily paralysed
Three months after fainting and waking up paralysed, Angel Dagcutan is still searching for answers as to what caused the episode.

Call for national data on where people are discharged to after hospital stay
Health NZ says its practice is not to discharge people to homelessness, but there is no reliable data on where people with complex mental health or addiction needs are sent.

Number of jobs being advertised on the rise after 'months of decline'
Despite the gradual improvement in the number of job ads, the excess of applicants per job is driving job seekers to apply for jobs in Australia.

Embrace physical media with my favorite 4K Blu-ray player, now 27% off
I was feeling pretty good about my previous 4K Blu-ray player, until the day it froze during the climax of Interstellar. Just as that Christopher Nolan epic was soaring into its final act, the glorious 4K UHD image ground to a halt, and no amount of cleaning the disc or fidgeting the controls would help....