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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...

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.

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.

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.

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....

Fire crews continue to battle large Waiuku blaze, toxic smoke warning issued
Fire and emergency crews remain on site as toxic smoke prompts health warnings

Ark, celebrity broadcaster’s home on list of most-viewed Trade Me properties of 2025
A Christchurch ark, a Remuera mansion owned by two well-known New Zealanders and a sculptural Auckland show home topped the charts.

Opposition MPs, community groups call for proposed Auckland homelessness ban to be binned
The government has signalled it's considering introducing legislation that would give police the power to issue move-on orders to remove unhoused people from Auckland's city centre.

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".

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.

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

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.

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...

Funeral for children killed in Sanson fire
Those attending have been asked to wear bright colours.