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Comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli in court charged with rape
Mr Kohli, who is also charged of an offence against domestic abuse laws, made no plea at a private hearing.

Community leaders acting as ‘makeshift lawyers’ take landfill opposition to Environment Court
Two community leaders say their stint as ‘‘make-shift lawyers’’ in an Environment Court hearing to consider a proposed Oxford landfill was worth it.

Judge accused of heckling Winston Peters wants clarity
A Judicial Conduct Panel will consider Judge Ema Aitken's behaviour.

Windows Notepad is testing advanced formatting options — like tables
Microsoft announced in a Windows Insiders blog post that its lightweight text editor Notepad is currently testing extended formatting capabilities with support for tables. The idea is to allow users to easily insert tables into their text documents to better structure notes. The new “Table” option is available in the formatting...

Warning to locals as huge, suspicious recycling centre fire spews smoke over Waiuku
Residents are being warning to stay inside and close windows as dozens of firefighters battle a recycling centre blaze.

Person found dead after fire in Auckland's Mount Roskill
A body was found after emergency services put out the blaze.

Commerce Commission taking Mobil to court over petrol pricing transparency
The Commerce Commission alleges the head office failed to provide transparent wholesale pricing to independent petrol station dealers.

Women's health services 'flooded' with referrals from cervical screening increase
As cervical screening picks up pace toward an 80 percent coverage target, services to further examine cases alerted in the screening tests are not able to keep up, clinical experts say.

'Gutting': Auckland BMX club canteen destroyed by fire
Waitakere BMX Club's canteen has been destroyed after a fire it believes was deliberately lit.

Renewed call to tighten management of domestic cats
The Government’s decision to add feral cats to its predator free 2050 goals has prompted a renewed call to microchip domestic cats.

Private service held for Sanson father
It’s understood Dean Field killed his children in a suspected murder-suicide and police were treating the incident as a homicide.

RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices
Generative “AI” data centers are gobbling up trillions of dollars in capital, not to mention heating up the planet like a microwave. As a result there’s a capacity crunch on memory production, shooting the prices for RAM sky high, over 100 percent in the last few months alone. Multiple stores...

Union warns of further strike by Air New Zealand flight attendants
Air New Zealand cabin crew will walk off the job on 8 December.

Commerce Commission takes legal action against Mobil
It believes the company's head office breached the Fuel Industry Act.

Amazon’s AirPods Pro 3 Black Friday deal drops Apple’s earbuds to their best price yet
Black Friday is the ideal time to get your hands on some new earbuds for the holiday season, as the AirPods Pro 3 drop to their best price yet. With a $249 MSRP, you can now get the buds for $220 while Amazon’s Black Friday sale is still going on. These...

I think the best Black Friday Chromebook deal just launched early
Everyone has the same thought process in the days before Black Friday: Should I buy now or wait? I’ve been covering holiday Chromebook deals for years now, and Lenovo’s $149 IdeaPad Chromebook deal at Amazon is a perfect time to pull the trigger. Lenovo’s $150 IdeaPad 3i at Amazon doesn’t ask...