Olympic rowing success a family affair, three Canterbury men hospitalised after swallowing beer caps, and how to get a job if you've never had one.
1 Success a family affair for Kiwi rowers at Paris Olympics
The NZ rowing team picked up gold, silver, and bronze medals overnight in a stellar performance at Paris 2024.
Featured in those medal winners are Brooke Francis and Lucy Spoors, who took home gold in their women's double sculls, beating the reigning Olympic and world champions Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis of Romania in a close finish at the line.
The pair both became mothers within a few months of each other two years ago.
2 Three Canterbury men go to ED after accidentally swallowing beer bottle caps
All three men ended up in the emergency room of Christchurch Hospital after accidentally ingesting the metal caps over a three-month period.
None of the men were connected or known to each other, and none of them remembered how the caps ended up inside of them.
Warning: This story contains graphic images.
3 Rare Antarctic weather disturbance making NZ unusually cold
NIWA says each winter, a ring of stormy, freezing weather — known as the polar vortex — encircles Antarctica.
Meteorologist Ben Noll said it typically kept harsh, wintry conditions locked up near the South Pole but, on rare occasions, it became disturbed and moved across New Zealand.
4 'Beautiful baby girl' born in back seat of police patrol car
In the Greys Ave area of central Auckland on Monday, two officers were flagged down after a woman had gone into labour.
Police took her to Auckland Hospital under lights and sirens – but they didn't quite make it to the ward.
Minutes after their arrival at the emergency department, a "beautiful baby girl was born in the back of the patrol car".
5 Charges over 'violent kidnapping and assault' of pair in Auckland
Two Auckland men were "allegedly lured to the Westmere area under the guise of buying a vehicle".
"These two men were subjected to an horrific ordeal over a number of hours," acting Detective Senior Sergeant Logan Jackson said.
"On arrival at a meeting point in Westmere, the men were allegedly forced into a waiting vehicle, forced to withdraw money, and were subjected to an assault."
ONE IWI WALKOUT
Te Rūnanga o Ngāpuhi Chairman Mane Tahere said the walkout was a protest against Government policies it did not agree with.
“Our walkout today was on the Government, not the Iwi Chairs’ Forum, there is still much work for us to continue," he said.
"But we cannot and will not sit in this room in silence while this Government continues to run roughshod over our people."
HOW TO GET A JOB IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD ONE
Craig Dyason has been working for more than 20 years as a careers advisor and says now is the hardest it's ever been for young people trying to enter the workforce.
When he asks his students what the most difficult part of trying to get a job is, the answer is unanimous. It’s getting someone who’ll take you on without any experience.
He spoke to Re:News' Stephanie Ockhuysen about how to enter the workforce.
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