Video / AP / Face Nation / NZHeraldA driveway dispute between two elderly Dunedin neighbours reached boiling point when one entered the other’s home and beat him with a bat. Senior Sergeant Anthony Bond, of Dunedin, said police were called to an address in Saddleview Pl in Fairfield at 10.20am yesterday after a man was assaulted in his own home. The 82-year-old man was at home when his neighbour, a 74-year-old, man entered his home and attacked him using a bat. The assault was due to an ongoing dispute between the two men over their shared driveway, Bond said. The 74-year-old was arrested and charged with aggravated burglary and will appear in court this morning.

Morocco’s position describing the seizure of a phosphate shipment in South Africa as an act of “political piracy” was welcomed on Friday by New Zealand-based fertilizer company Balance Agri-Nutrients. Quoted by Stuff.co mediaMark Wynne, director general of the New Zealand company, described the reaction of the OCP as “pragmatic,” MAP reported Thursday. The financial implications, from our side, are only related to the ship, but we are covered by insurance anyway,” explained Mark Wein. The president of Balance Agri-Nutrients confirms that his company will continue to purchase Moroccan phosphate. This calls for referring the case of the ship NM Cherry Blossom to the merits.

Expat Tales is a Stuff Travel series featuring Kiwis who’ve made new lives for themselves overseas. If you’d like to take part, email us at travel@stuff.co.nzWhat inspired your move, and how long have you been there? It's much easier to have some of the nicer things in life here compared to in NZ. The Children’s Museum is one of the best in the country and there is also a living history museum. Americans work really hard and there is more pressure here to get ahead.

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Deborah Robertson on what inspired her to write her new novel, and to set it in 1953 – the year of the Tangiwai disaster. A group of six girls in purple T-shirts are sitting on a log. Well, not really a log. It’s an equestrian hurdle that has been carved

In this 2 Sense episode of The Australian Property Podcast, six-time author Pete Wargent and Blusk founder Chris Bates are BACK! Every week, Chris Bates and Pete Wargent jump on the Australian Property Podcast airwaves to answer your questions or cover the top 3 property news stories of the news. Don’t forget to send Chris and Pete your questions! In this week’s episode, Chris and Pete cover:1 – Rezoning changes afoot in New South Wales2 – Global inflation pulse is starting to fade now3 – Housing market limping into Xmas

A pedestrian has died after being struck by a bus at Albany Bus Station on the North Shore this afternoon. A pedestrian has died after being struck by a bus at Albany Bus Station on the North Shore this afternoon. “Earlier this afternoon our teams were informed of a fatal collision between a bus and a person at the Albany Bus Station,” said Stacey van der Putten, AT Director of Public Transport and Active Modes. Police are investigating after the fatal accident at Albany Bus Station this afternoon. Photo / NZME“The Albany Bus Station will be closed while police conduct their scene investigation.

The fire on Fruitgrowers Rd near Clyde Dam. Volunteer firefighters from Clyde, Alexandra, Tarras, Dunstan and Luggate, as well as career fighters and staff from Dunedin and Queenstown and skilled helicopter pilots attended. The fire in Fruitgrowers Rd, a short distance from Clyde Dam, had reignited about 4.20pm from an earlier fire started by fireworks on Friday night. Mr Lamont urged people to think twice about letting off fireworks in windy conditions, and to be aware that it only took one spark to cause a wildfire. Elsewhere in the South Island, firefighters were continuing to work on fires at Templeton in the Selwyn District and at Glenham in Southland.

By David Cunningham*Since 2020, the story of New Zealand house prices has been a truly wild one. This limited supply, plus ongoing demand from a growing population, has supported house prices – keeping them at all-time highs. Those people all need somewhere to live – and that’s helped to push up both house prices and rents. What’s interesting to note about UK house prices is just how steadily they’ve increased over this time. The extraordinary monetary policy easing the world over was behind this, instead supporting house prices.

It was the highest level recorded since August, largely driven by positive shifts in the expected path of inflation. All this run of positive data has markets pulling back on their enthusiastic expectation that the Fed will be cutting rates in 2024. It will be interesting to see whether the industry responds with generally lower savings rate offers, or higher lending and deposit rates. The UST 10yr yield is on the rise again, up +12 bps from yesterday at 4.23% on the jobs data. That all means our TWI-5 starts today just on 70.2 and -40 bps lower from this time yesterday, -50 bps lower than a week ago.

Markets with Madison: Best of businessYou didn’t think I’d attend the best event in business and not bring you along with me, did you? Join me at the Deloitte Top 200 Business awards to find out what’s on executive’s minds and how they’re positioning for 2024. Video / NZ Herald

Police take a man into custody after the incident in Mitchell Ave. Photo: Gregor RichardsonA knife-wielding man ignited a large police response after allegedly demanding money from a pedestrian in Dunedin. A police spokesman said officers arrested a man on Mitchell Avenue in Maryhill today. About 11.20am, police received a call that a person was walking around the streets armed with a knife. The 35-year-old man allegedly pointed the knife at a passerby while demanding money. He was arrested at the scene and faces charges of assault and wilful damage.

Deborah Robertson on what inspired her to write her new novel, and to set it in 1953 – the year of the Tangiwai disaster. A group of six girls in purple T-shirts are sitting on a log. Well, not really a log. It’s an equestrian hurdle that has been carved

Winston’s arrogant smug Parliament Speech is riddled with conspiracy theories and bile because Winston is the new King of the Conspiracy Swamp Kingdom that allowed him to scrape back over the 5% threshold and haunt us all with Qanon conspiracy theories masquerading as legitimate social policy. This Hard Right Government has turned us from New Zealand into Q Zealand because the feral antivaxx movement are deeply entrenched within NZ First and have pushed crazy conspiracies to the forefront of our national policy platform. We should all feel deeply embarrassed about becoming Q Zealand. TDB Recommends NewzEngine.comIncreasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice going into this pandemic and 2020 election – please donate here. If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media.

Emma Raducanu's return destination is set and it can be perhaps seen as a puzzling one at that in the ASB Classic in Auckland from January 1-7, 2024. The belief was that the slippy indoor courts played a part which she was forced to play on due to heavy rain. Also read Emma Raducanu's tennis return set for ASB Classic in Auckland as road to 2024 Australian Open beginsIt was a setback that she never quite recovered from needing surgery on both wrists and her ankle in the middle of the year. "So to be stopped by a freak injury, rolling an ankle, is pretty disappointing, in the first week as well. All in all though, it could've been a necessary evil as such for Raducanu, with a stacked field in Brisbane and the United Cup limiting options for her in terms of her tennis return.