Post-grad student Michael Allen has been looking for a flat since November without any luck.

Student housing crisis looms

19 min ago  Growing enrolments and falling number of rentals leaves many with no homes.

Factory fire in Hutt

Emergency services are responding to a "huge fire" at factory in Upper Hutt.

8:33 PM  Flames and smoke engulf factory as fire crews fight to bring blaze under control.

Woman cut from crash car video

8:14 PM  She has been flown to hospital with serious injuries after crash at Peka Peka.

Boy kicked off Jetstar flight

8:38 PM  12-year-old travelling alone was told he could not board overbooked flight.

Man holed up in home

2 min ago  Residents terrified and trapped in homes after man barricades himself in a Napier house.

Woman killed in bridge crash

Police look into possibility that a diesel spill may have caused SH2 accident.

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Law change hits worst crims

Jules Mikus was handed a a five-year parole postponement in 2016. He was found guilty of the 1987 murder of Teresa Cormack.

3 min ago  Small group of violent offenders banned from seeking parole for five years.

Burst pipe holds up Basin traffic

12 min ago  Road now clear after burst pipe causes surface flooding.

Plea for women to save sevens video

Mayor in car crash video

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Capital faces student housing crisis

Flat hunters gather for a viewing in Brooklyn on Monday evening, 25 minutes before it opened.

Growing enrolments and falling number of rentals leaves many with no homes.

Insurance premiums to rise

Paul Guthrie at his badly damaged home in Kaikoura.

Home owners can expect higher insurance premiums in the wake of the Kaikoura quake.

H&M coming to Queensgate?

Are H&M going to set up shop in Queensgate Mall? If not, who will it be?

Retailers are being reshuffled at mall for a major new store, prompting rumours of arrival of clothing chain.

What is the 'Gull effect'?

Wherever Gull opens, motorists quickly see cheaper prices at other stations, a phenomenon dubbed the 'Gull effect'.

ANALYSIS: Normally you pay $2.09 for a litre of petrol litre but drive 100km and the price drops by as much as 30c a litre.

World's 'insulting' window signs

World window display in Victoria St, Wellington

High-end fashion brand World's windows display are called "reductive and insulting".

Comment

Andy Maciver: Put road and rail on equal footing

If the Government took a wider view of rail funding, electrifiying the North Island Main Trunk line would be a ...

OPINION: KiwiRail's decision to retire its electric locomotives raises a whole lot of questions.

A fitting (and dramatic) UN finale

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told New Zealand's Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully that backing a ...

OPINION: There's more to our place in the world than the number of free trade agreements we can secure.

The cost of the quakes

Minister Nick Smith with Wellington Mayor Justin Lester announcing new rules for  buildings with unreinforced masonry ...

The tough new earthquake-strengthening rules for Wellington are sensible and even overdue. Buildings with unreinforced masonry killed 39 people in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake. There are about 300 such buildings in Wellington and Lower Hutt. They could kill many more.

Tips for putting the brakes on 'fake news'

Facebook has become a cauldron for the dissemination of phony news.

OPINION: Many of those who share "fake news" on Facebook never even read the story.

Free trade or bully's charter?

Prime Minister Bill English

Prime Minister Bill English was right to rebuff Donald Trump's absurd notion of a trade agreement with a 30-day termination clause. Unfortunately the spat shows how difficult it is going to be dealing with an American president who doesn't live in the real world.

Culture

World's biggest Tokelaun festival

Koloi Patelesio, centre, leads Porirua College's Tokelauan group for Polyfest 2013.

 Already famed for it's Pasifika flavour, Porirua City will host the world's largest gather of Tokelauans.

Irish flavour attracts fans

Estere plays to the crowd on the Dell Stage at last year's Coastella festival.

The 500 early bird tickets for the Coastella festival sold out in four weeks

Crossword solutions: Friday, January 27

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Find the solutions to The Dominion Post's backpage puzzle here.

Oscar nomination for Porirua man

John Gilbert at home in Porirua.

First a BAFTA, then an Oscar nomination for Kiwi film editor John Gilbert.

Oscars: Kiwis' best moments

Bret McKenzie shows off his Oscar after winning the Music (Original Song) award for the film The Muppets at the 84th ...

Take a trip down memory lane – and no, it's not all about the Lord of the Rings.

Capital Life

Q&A: Author Jenny Pattrick

Author Jenny Pattrick at her home in Wellington, New Zealand.

The bestselling Wellington author discusses reading, writing and the importance of books.

Irish flavour attracts fans

Estere plays to the crowd on the Dell Stage at last year's Coastella festival.

The 500 early bird tickets for the Coastella festival sold out in four weeks

From dodgy to delightful

Eva and Leeds St and Hannah's courtyard laneway Wellington was revilatised and opened officially in December 2015. It is ...

Your mum probably warned you to never take the back-alley, but Wellington's transformed shortcuts could be preventing crime.

Dylan dives into new adventure

Dylan Howsan, 7, of Stokes Valley, is diving from the pool into the sea for his first ocean swim.

Stokes Valley 7-year-old Dylan Howsan is the youngest entrant in this year's Capital Classic swim.

Learn to fix your bike

The space is equipped with tools and machines to help with bike problems such as recabling brakes, and adjusting gears ...

New Wellington workshop wants to empower and encourage bike owners.

Sport

Plea for women to save sevens video

The Black Ferns Sevens defeated Australia in the first round of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series in Dubai last month.

Former star Karl Te Nana reckons a women's tournament would bring fans back.

The $1 special can't match a visa

Kyle Marshall drove Pay Me Visa to victory in the Wellington Trotting Cup.

The horse that cost $1 unable to match it with a visa in Wellington Trotting Cup.

NZ try to look past Tietjens

Gordon Tietjens' contribution to sevens rugby in New Zealand will never be forgotten.

Sevens side not being distracted by presence of former coach Gordon Tietjens with Samoa.

Taylor firing for flying Firebirds

Wellington's Matt Taylor in action during the McDonald's Super Smash.

The baby of the Wellington Firebirds is starting to prove his worth.

Thorndon fab four for Marsh

Cambridge trainer Stephen Marsh has four runners in the Group I Thorndon Mile at Trentham.

Stephen Marsh loathe to split his four Thorndon Mile contenders.

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