All Black discharged without conviction, weather hampers search for missing men on Aoraki Mt Cook, and Health NZ says cuts will keep going until 2027.
1 All Black Sevu Reece discharged without conviction on wilful damage charge
All Blacks star Sevu Reece has been discharged without conviction after crashing a car into a garage in Christchurch.
Name suppression was dropped today when the 27-year-old appeared for sentencing at the Christchurch District Court. He was accompanied by his wife.
The winger had earlier pleaded guilty to one charge of wilful damage.
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Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker has the opportunity he has craved for months – a confirmed world title bout against IBF champion Daniel Dubois in Saudi Arabia in February.
It will give Parker an opportunity to win back a different version of the WBO heavyweight world title he won in 2016 and lost two years later.
4 Weather continues to hamper search for men missing on Aoraki Mt Cook
Police say weather conditions continue to hamper the search for three men from the United States and Canada missing on Aoraki Mt Cook.
The search for Kurt Blair (56) and Carlos Romero (50) from the United States, and a Canadian national was launched yesterday after they were reported overdue.
5 Health NZ says cuts will keep going to 2027, reports $722m deficit
Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora is extending its cost cutting to last three years and signalling more voluntary redundancies, while reporting a deficit of over $700 million.
It's pushing it out by one year, to mid-2027, when it aims the "reset" – launched after the board was sacked midyear – to return the agency to budget.
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