Ngāti Kahu has finished drafting a letter to King Charles III calling on him to stop what they say is a violent attack on Te Tiriti O Waitangi, a Māori academic and iwi chairperson says.
A software glitch led to an employee being overpaid $9000 in wages by a family-owned Christchurch company - but the worker quit just as the agreed repayment scheme kicked in.
Experts say tens of thousands of people could die, hundreds of thousands could be displaced, and the cost of building damage could top $100 billion if a massive earthquake from the Hikurangi subduction zone hit NZ.
The foreign affairs minister has landed in Solomon Islands for the first leg of his Pacific tour, and an audience with the newly elected Prime Minister.