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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h
📢 Kiwis planning to watch Guy Fawkes fireworks light up the sky could be in for a more spectacular sight tonight, with the largest supermoon of the year set
Supermoon to light up New Zealand skies tonight: Here’s everything you need to know
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h
📢 A law passed five years ago to fine drivers caught smoking or vaping in cars with kids still can’t be enforced – and not a single fine has been issued.
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Police still can’t issue fines for smoking and vaping law passed four years ago
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 1h
📢 A stoush over a stall at a Wellington Pride event has left some people with hurt feelings, exposed differing opinions about gender identity and resulted in

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Human Rights Review Tribunal hears final arguments in Lava v Wellington Pride Festival dispute
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h
📢 New Yorkers elected leftist Zohran Mamdani as their next mayor, broadcasters projected, on a day of key local ballots across the country offering the first
Zohran Mamdani to be New York mayor, as Democrats sweep New Jersey, Virginia governor races
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h
📢 The University of Otago is investigating student behaviour after fireworks were shot at police and firefighters in Dunedin’s Castle St.
Police condemn Castle Street fireworks as Otago University probes behaviour
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h
📢 Queenstown Lakes District Council has officially adopted the Freedom Camping Bylaw 2025, though not everyone is happy.
Freedom camping at Beacon Point, Lake Wānaka sparks community backlash, petition
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 5h
📢 Prime Minister Christopher Luxon maintains the Government’s efforts to secure a free trade deal with India before the election are progressing well as he s
India free trade deal: PM Christopher Luxon skips Parliament to meet Indian trade minister, denies negotiations in trouble
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 A small fire started by fireworks has destroyed an area of well-established native plants on Te Mata Peak in Hawke’s Bay.
Fireworks blaze destroys native plants on Te Mata Peak
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 A garage fire sent plumes of black smoke across Havelock North before being extinguished by firefighters.

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Garage fire which sent plumes of smoke over Havelock North extinguished
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 A small fire started by fireworks has destroyed an area of well-established native plants on Te Mata Peak in Hawke’s Bay.
Fireworks blaze destroys native plants on Te Mata Peak
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 A Parliamentary inquiry into Whanganui MP Carl Bates’ declaration of financial interests has cleared him of all wrongdoing.
Parliamentary inquiry clears MP Carl Bates of wrongdoing over 25 undeclared homes
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 A resource consent for a large service station on some of New Zealand’s most fertile soils, beside the Hawke’s Bay Expressway, has been lodged.
Hawke’s Bay Expressway service station: Resource consent lodged for development on some of NZ’s best growing soils
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 6h
📢 Police are appealing for information after multiple burglaries in Twyford, near Hastings.
Spate of rural burglaries near Hastings, police appeal for information
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 United States forces killed two people in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean today, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth sai

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US strike on alleged drug boat kills two in eastern Pacific
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 A Waikato policeman who sprayed a speeding motorist three times with pepper spray for not handing over his car keys will now have to pay his victim $1000.
Waikato cop loses discharge bid after excessive OC spray of motorist
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 Aucklanders are being urged to remain vigilant for yellow-legged hornets as the hunt for the predatory creatures continues.

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Biosecurity NZ sets 120 traps on Auckland’s North Shore amid yellow-legged hornet hunt
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 Democrat Abigail Spanberger will be the first woman to run the state of Virginia after winning back the governor’s mansion from Republicans today, United S
Virginia gets its first female governor as Democrats flip state in test of Trump’s second term
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 7h
📢 The woman who was found dead in an Auckland apartment building has been identified.
Woman found dead in Auckland apartment identified as Fijian mother-of-two
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 8h
📢 A Waikato intersection is closed following a serious crash.
Waikato crash: Police urge drivers to avoid Gordonton area
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 8h
📢 Former Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams is being treated for drug addiction and will not play for the country again, the national cricket board has said.
Ex-Zimbabwe cricket captain Williams treated for ‘drug addiction’
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 8h
📢 A fire broke out late Tuesday in a nursing home in the Bosnian town of Tuzla, police said, with local media and officials reporting that several people had

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Several dead after fire rips through Tuzla, Bosnia nursing home
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 8h
📢 Research using drones has proven for the first time just how common green turtles are in one of New Zealand’s northernmost harbours.
Turtles found foraging in Rangaunu Harbour
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 9h
📢 More than five miles (eight kilometres) of glacial ice in Antarctica vanished in only two months, retreating 10 times faster than the previous record.
Antarctica’s Hektoria Glacier retreats 8km in weeks, fastest on record
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 9h
📢 A cargo plane crashed in the US city of Louisville, Kentucky, sending huge plumes of smoke across the city.
UPS cargo plane crashes in US city of Louisville: FAA
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Newstalk ZB (Unofficial) @newstalkzb.nzcow.com · 9h
📢 Four gang members have been sentenced for the shooting of Charles Pongi.
Inside the shooting of Charles Pongi: Four gang members sentenced for murder
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