Warner Bros. Photo / Robyn Beck, AFPNetflix has said it would not raise its takeover offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, effectively ceding the media giant to a rival bid from Paramount Skydance after deciding the deal was no longer financially attractive. Without a Netflix counteroffer, the Warner Bros. Discovery board is now free to terminate its agreement with the streaming giant and proceed with Paramount.
New Zealanders have not had to dig trenches because of the war in Ukraine, which started four years ago this week. However, as this senseless, needless conflict has worn on in Ukraine New Zealanders have come to know those people well. Photo: Getty ImagesThe Ukraine war has spanned two different New Zealand governments. Russia will keep fighting because its leader wants to; Ukraine will keep fighting because it has no choice. The rest of the world can only keep watching, keep shaking its head in despair, but not forget the people of the Ukraine whom we have now come to know.
Photo: ODT filesAn allegedly drunk woman was seen driving erratically while towing a caravan after managing to bypass her vehicle's alcohol interlock, police say. She was stopped, and police noticed she was on a zero-alcohol licence and had an alcohol interlock installed in her vehicle. ‘‘It was good to get her off the road,’’ Snr Sgt Dinnissen said. Snr Sgt Dinnissen said police located the vehicle and the officers ‘‘did some good work’’ with education and prevention. The driver was a 57-year-old forbidden driver breaching his bail, and in the passenger seat was a ‘‘high-risk recidivist’’ shoplifter.
“The victim was transported to hospital, by ambulance, in a serious condition,” Hill said. Hill said the assault appeared to be a road-rage incident, believed to have started on Higgins Rd. The incident then made its way to the intersection where the assault occurred. People with information, or who have dashcam footage, should get in touch. Sign up to The Daily H, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Barrera criticised Israel in 2023, writing that Gaza was “currently being treated like a concentration camp” and resharing a post that said Israel was committing genocide by “brutally killing innocent Palestinians”. Melissa Barrera was fired from the Scream franchise in 2023 after she said Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. Barrera held firm on her statements at the time, writing on Instagram that “silence is not an option” when news of her firing broke. Critics said those appearing in the subsequent films lacked solidarity towards Barrera and were complicit in the ongoing deaths of Palestinian civilians. Other franchise alums Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard also attended the premiere.
The Ministry of Health is at the centre of some of the Government’s most consequential decisions - advising the Government where billions in Vote Health funding should go. New Zealand's Budget gets split into various 'votes', and Vote Health - the health sector's share of the Government's funding pool - is significant. It was a period of significant upheaval in health - Margie Apa had just resigned as the chief executive of Health NZ, and Simeon Brown had recently replaced Shane Reti as Health Minister. Sonerson said it was important she was clear about what the role of the Ministry is and its relationship with Health NZ. "And we need to be acting on behalf of the Minister and the Government of the day on what they want Health NZ to achieve.
Kelsey Waghorn has revealed in her new book - Surviving White Island - how she had an earlier near-death experience after a tour boat exploded in flames off the Bay of Plenty coastline. Kelsey Waghorn survived the boat inferno, and jumping into the sea, only to later almost lose her life in the Whakaari/White Island eruption. Kelsey Waghorn almost lost her life in the Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption. >> Surviving White Island, by Kelsey Waghorn, is published by HarperCollins and has a RRP of $39.99. He has covered the Whakaari/White Island tragedy, and its ongoing impacts, at length.
Ferguson stayed at Ballyliffin twice in 2024, sharing a TikTok video of herself enjoying the “most beautiful, wonderful blast of fresh air” on a nearby beach. The US Department of Justice’s release of the Epstein files has reignited public scrutiny of Ferguson’s long friendship with the convicted paedophile. Photographs released in the Epstein files showed Sarah Ferguson with a woman whose identity has been hidden. Since the scandal broke, Ferguson has been dropped from her roles at several charities. “I think that is why I feel so comfortable in Ireland, because the Irish people accept Sarah as Sarah, instead of trying to make her into anything else.”
Wellington's south coast beaches have been rated unsuitable for swimming just two days after the city's mayor went for a swim in Lyall Bay to show it was safe. On Wednesday, it was announced that the beaches could reopen and mayor Andrew Little taking a dip in front of media. Mayor Andrew Little went for a dip at Lyall Bay on Wednesday. Little said at the announcement he advised residents to check the website before swimming and follow the advice on it. The mayor has been contacted for comment.
Yesterday, Judge Hermann Retzlaff found the defendant guilty of one charge and cleared him of the other. He found that the defendant was aware of the protection order, and the complainant gave credible evidence about the incidents. The court heard the married man had met the woman through work in 2020 before they started a long-distance affair the following year. Judge Retzlaff found the defendant guilty on the second charge of breaching a protection order. At a trial in August, the man was also found guilty of possessing an objectionable publication — footage of the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Photo: Adele Rycroft / MANAWATŪ STANDARDThe source of the loose tar that littered roads and highways from Waiouru to Wellington earlier this week remains unknown. Police were notified by the public to lumps of tar scattered around central roads and state highways on Wednesday morning as unsuspecting drivers tracked the substance during commutes. Though there were "a number of speculative ideas" about the source of the tar, there was no set culprit for the spillage. Pictures emerged on social media showing the substance has been tracked as far as the Bluebridge ferry terminal in central Wellington by unknowing cars heading south. Anyone who witnessed the tar being spilt from a vehicle can contact them on 105 and reference case number P065564731.
Photo: Warwick Smith / Manawatu Standard / LDRPalmerston North and Whanganui are the two centres in the Horizons catchment most vulnerable to building damage from flooding, a new study shows. Various tests were run to simulate what would happen to existing flood prevention methods during extreme weather events. While we have done some flood modelling before, this assessment fills the gaps where there was no modelling done previously". Deputy chairperson Fiona Gordon said it is the first flood vulnerability assessment to this level. Scenarios such as a 1-in-100-year flood were run, with temperature and geographical variables being altered in some tests based on climate change predictions.
PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSHA significant Queenstown and Dunedin-based engineering company is facing liquidation over tax debt of more than $1 million. An application has been made by Inland Revenue to put Dart Engineering (2006) Ltd into liquidation because of unpaid tax. A statement of claim filed with the High Court in November last year said Dart Engineering owed Inland Revenue $1,160,271.61. Dart Engineering opened a branch in Dunedin more than five years ago in Kaikorai Valley Rd. Dart Engineering general manager Richard Cramond had no comment when contacted and referred all comment to Mr Williamson.
A pair of "boozed up" young students who went joyriding in a ute after breaking into the new Dunedin Hospital site have been blasted by police. The two 19-year-olds, both students at a Dunedin tertiary institution, stumbled into the hospital construction site on Cumberland St at 2.46am this morning, Senior Sergeant Craig Dinnissen said. The pair stole a ute and tried to drive off but ‘‘missed the open gate’’. They were soon halted by workers on the site who ‘‘stopped them in the throes of driving around the yard’’. The pair would appear in Dunedin District Court on March 5.laine.priestley@odt.co.nz
