03-Feb-2010 08:30
400 to 500 Telecom IT jobs look like they are going to be outsourced overseas – I wonder if the breakdown in the XT network was deliberate?
Man that stole $18 million from the ASB has pleaded guilty. Not a good look for our oldest bank – Kashin would be turning in her fresh grave!
The cost of the Forsyth Barr stadium in Dunedin has escalated.
A sixty year old plans to swim Cook Straight – good on him!
The net is closing on Paul Hogan, of Crocodile Dundee fame, for tax evasion.
Scientists have come up with a device that allows humans to walk up walls. About time! What's wrong with a ladder?
A former cop in Oz, who was on the kids show Wombat with the puppet Agro, is in court on child porn charges.
The American teenager who was attempting to become the youngest to sail around the world has pulled out with equipment failure – which means Jessica Watson's record, if she succeeds, should hold.
Rip Torn is in rehab. No surprises there.
Phil Harris, the captain of the Cornelia Marie on Deadliest Catch, suffered a stroke on Friday while unloading fish and had been rushed to hospital.