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8:11 AM  Police have found the car used in a hit-and-run which killed a cyclist in Auckland.

Sam the calypso Kiwi

TWIN CAMPS: Sam Guillen will have conflicted loyalties as New Zealand takes on the West Indies at Westpac Stadium today. Her grandfather, Sammy Guillen, played for both countries during the 1950s.

With both West Indian and Kiwi blood in her veins, Sam Guillen will have a foot in both cricket camps.

Help needed to ship donations

Veena Kameta and Alan Solomon have collected over 20,000 items of clothing for people in Vanuatu.

Youth workers collected more than 20,000 donations of clothing and other items for Vanuatu.

Can reptiles derail a new house?

This is a tale of a total abuse of the Resource Management Act and local council planning rules. The council said this must include "subcontracting a lizard specialist to assess whether a lizard management plan would also be needed".

9:15 AM  Officials needed to know whether lizards or native geckos exist at the property ... and whether their lives are in danger.

Skifields dread DOC plan

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Canterbury club skifields fear they will be "phased out" if a "derogatory" new DOC plan is approved.

TWIN CAMPS: Sam Guillen will have conflicted loyalties as New Zealand takes on the West Indies at Westpac Stadium today. Her grandfather, Sammy Guillen, played for both countries during the 1950s.
Recorded: Tens of thousands of red-zone trees have been tagged and logged in a Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (Cera) database as it nears the end of its land clearance project.
20032015: News/Photos/Marjorie CookKelly Spaans of The Cardrona tourist activity is delighted with the success of breast cancer fundraising efforts since a sign was installed last week.
Tourists play with a ball on the beach on a sunny day at Valras-Plage, southern France.
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crime

Partner won't attend inquest

Gone too soon: Libby McKay, 27, whose death in 2013 devastated her family.

The partner of a young woman who died after falling from his moving ute won't attend her coroner's inquest because he does not want to "re-live that night", his sister says.

Man charged with failing to use condom

A Porirua man is facing two rare charges under the safe-sex law after alleged unprotected sex with a prostitute.

Parole for farmer who funded meth

A trade, a trap... then a shot

politics

Nat's tactics prove I'm ahead, says Peters

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - SEPTEMBER 20: New Zealand First Leader Winston Peters speaks to media and supporters at the Spencer on Byron Hotel in Takapuna on September 20, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. Voters head to the polls today to elect the 51st Parliament of New Zealand. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)

National is bracing for a humiliating by-election loss in Northland.

Convention Centre deal secure video

SkyCity centre seems secure with planned law changes that would scupper it unlikely to gain support.

INVESTIGATED: Top health bureaucrat Chai Chuah.

Bureaucrat faced probe into pay

One of the country's top bureaucrats has faced a year-long investigation into decade old salary overpayments.

education

Bennett calls in on Dargaville High video

SCHOOL VISIT: Paula Bennett has dropped in to Dargaville High School.

Paula Bennett tells students anything is possible, but warns of the difficulties of having babies young.

Achievers win scholarships

Sporting efforts by two former New Plymouth high school students are paying dividends.

Maori arts and crafts students at Whakarongotai Marae in Waikanae.

Curriculum for immersion schools

A curriculum for Maori values and beliefs in immersion schools has been launched.

health

Lawyer's fight to die on her terms

PLEA: Wellington lawyer Lecretia Seales, 41, is asking the High Court to uphold her right to die at the time of her choosing, and ensure her GP will not face charges if he helps her to die.

8:31 AM  A prominent Wellington lawyer is looking to set a legal precedent by asking the High Court to allow her to die on her own terms.

Teens can't cope

More children are medicated for mental disorders than ever - clinicians blame modern stresses

Interventional radiologist Dr Andrew Laing.

Doctor's remorse for fatal move

8:04 AM  Doctor realised immediately he'd made a massive mistake during surgery - but it was already too late.

farming

Further slump in sheep numbers

In 1982 the country had 70 million sheep; today the number has slipped below 30 million.

Sheep numbers could halve in the next 10 years, if the claims of a Meat Industry Excellence Group Report released last Tuesday, prove correct.

Mutch ado about shearing

Former world champion shearer says it's much harder to win Masterton's prestigious Golden Shears competition.

Cattle graze in a field near Paris, Missouri July 13, 2012. U.S. ranchers are rushing to sell off some of their cattle as the worst drought in nearly 25 years dries up pastures, thins hay supplies and sends feed costs sky-rocketing. The drought in the Midwest follows another one last year in the southern Plains. REUTERS/Adrees Latif (UNITED STATES - Tags: AGRICULTURE BUSINESS COMMODITIES ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS)

Call to punish farmers

Quad bike ramming and drunken shearing among animal cruelty cases investigated on Canterbury farms.

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