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• Lydia's journey: A little Kiwi girl's mission to put two feet on the ground April 13, 2021
  An Auckland family that uprooted their life in New Zealand in a bid to get life-changing surgery for their little girl in the US are celebrating an important milestone. Four-year-old Lydia Golding was born with proximal femoral...
• Person found dead after car fire in Northland April 13, 2021
  Police are trying to understand the circumstances surrounding a body being found in a car fire in Northland on Tuesday. A police spokesman said officers were alerted to a car fire on Wharau Rd near Kerikeri just after 7pm Tuesday."Sadly...
• 'Motel generation' feared as emergency housing need continues April 13, 2021
  By Nita Blake-Persen of RNZ There are fears Aotearoa could end up with a "motel generation" as whānau struggling to afford rents are bumped across emergency accommodation providers.Latest figures show there are more than...
• Syphilis epidemic continues to cause alarm, call for extra funding to stop spread April 13, 2021
  Parliament's health select committee has raised concerns about the growth of syphilis in south Auckland and the need for extra funding for primary and sexual health services to stop its spread.But at least one leading academic says...
• Former cop: Remuera death 'sounds like a homicide inquiry' April 13, 2021
  A former senior police detective believes an eight-day investigation into an unexplained death in Auckland's Remuera "sounds like it's going to be a homicide inquiry". Emergency services were called to a house on Upland Rd on Easter...
• Starship hospital to expand children's ICU April 13, 2021
  There are not enough beds at Starship's intensive care unit and the national children's hospital is seeking donations for a $40 million expansion plan. Starship's Paediatric ICU or PICU currently has 22 beds, catering to New Zealand's...
• Nigel Patrick Poa: Serial sex offender's family still 'love' him despite crimes which led to preventive detention April 13, 2021
  Nigel Patrick Poa's failure to tackle his demons and his prolific sex offending over decades has earned him a sentence of preventive detention.The serial sex offender lived near several West Auckland schools but managed to avoid...
• Covid 19 coronavirus: MIQ moving to in-house security eight months after government decision April 13, 2021
  By Katie Todd of RNZ Government security roles for managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) facilities have only recently been advertised, eight months after the Government decided to hire its own security force instead of using...
• Veteran ocean explorer becomes deepest diving New Zealander with Mariana Trench expedition April 13, 2021
  A Kiwi and an Australian have set new records for their respective countries with their dive to the deepest part of the world's ocean. And not only did the duo descend deeper that than the height of Mt Everest, they also took Marmite...
• Political Roundup: The Māori Party needs to come clean April 13, 2021
  OPINION: How seriously does the Māori Party take issues of corruption and the untoward influence of big money in politics? Not very, based on how it's handling a political finance scandal in which three large donations were...