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Hands-on Review: MacBook Air M4 - Apple’s lightest laptop gets smarter
Apple's MacBook Air M4 offers a slimmer, smarter 2025 upgrade with up to 18 hours battery, new sky blue finish, and powerful M4 chip enhancements.

Budget 2025: Maori Wardens receive $1.5m funding boost
The extra funding would bring the volunteer organisation's total annual funding to $2.7m.

Flaxmere boy injured in bike crash and left on side of road; father, police seek rider
Police are seeking information about the motorbike involved in the collision.

The House: Parliamentary privileges - Race as an aggravating factor?
Analysis: Reactions and advice from Parliament's Clerk, Speaker and even the committee chair show it has recommended indefensibly harsh punishments.

Legal aid: What is it and who’s entitled to it
Forecast spending for 2025 is $297.3 million, a 54.6% rise from 2020.

Legal aid spending climbs, Government seeks efficiencies in review
Legal aid repayments rose to $32.1m, offsetting some costs for taxpayers.

Safeguard Global to tackle AI & HR risks in LinkedIn Live event
Safeguard Global will host a LinkedIn Live event on International HR Day addressing global workforce risks amid rising AI adoption in human resources.

Large part of north Auckland without internet after outage
The outage map on the Chorus website shows 24 identified internet outages, with indicative affected areas around those points.

A life of service: celebrating the career of Luamanuvao Dame Winnie Laban
Feature - "I've always been aspirational for others. We, Pacific people, have been brought up that we are the people of the 'we' and not the 'me'".

PNG doctors perform first-ever kydney transplant at Port Moresby General Hospital
Health Minister Elias Kapavore praised the first-ever kidney transplant in Port Moresby this week, saying patients can now access treatment affordably and within the country.

Sinner & Alcaraz set up huge Italian Open final
Jannik Sinner sets up a blockbuster Italian Open final against Carlos Alcaraz, after the world number one fought from behind to beat American Tommy Paul.

'In the winter, the roads can be a bit scary': The life of a rural midwife
Fording rivers and driving dangerous, winding roads is all in a day's work for Coromandel midwife Sheryl Wright.

Auckland FC v Melbourne Victory: The key factors as Auckland’s A-League finals quest begins
Facing Melbourne Victory in an away finals match is the side's greatest challenge so far.

YouTuber angers Mexican authorities over chocolate advert shot in ancient sites
During a video showing a visit to ancient Mexican cities, MrBeast pulls out a box of some chocolate he sells, calling it a ‘special Mayan dessert’.

How returning Hurricane inspired stunning comeback
After seven months on the sidelines, Brett Cameron played a pivotal role in the Hurricanes’ last-gasp victory.

Trans-Tasman Resources' Taranaki seabed mining project clears first phase of Fast-track process
Trans-Tasman Resources wants to mine the South Taranaki Bight seabed every year for three decades.

More than 95,000 hectares of farms sold to overseas buyers
Investors from Europe are putting money into sheep and beef farms and converting them to pine forestry plantations.

David Nyika returns to the ring on Sonny Bill Williams v Paul Gallen undercard in Sydney
David Nyika's return to the ring on the SBW-Gallen card is his first since his KO defeat.

Conservatives block Trump's big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback
Lawmakers are insisting on steeper spending cuts to Medicaid and the Biden-era green energy tax breaks.

Laiana McClinton: First Polynesian heritage athlete to win 100m and 200m State titles at high school meet
Laiana McClinton, who has links to Tonga and Samoa, won both the events at the Florida State High School Athletics competition.

Northern Mariana Islands' annual bird count highlights conservation success
The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) annual Christmas Bird Count once again showcased the vital role that community volunteers and conservation efforts play in protecting the islands' unique bird...