Finance Minister Nicola Willis feared she would be left with a “completely open chequebook” if she had agreed to pour more funding into the Cook Strait.
A disgraced real estate agent jailed for 12 years for repeatedly sexually abusing an underage girl has been refused parole after it emerged his victim has.
A masked gunman who shot two women during a horrific home invasion and robbed six Canterbury pubs and bars at gunpoint, making off with $115,000 during a.
Iran s foreign minister, whose government supports Hamas and other Middle East militant groups, said on Thursday opening a new front against Israel would depend on Israel s actio.