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A family of Spanish tourists, including three children, and the pilot have died in a helicopter crash in the Hudson River that killed six people.⁠ ⁠ The helicopter broke apart in midair and crashed upside-down into the river between Manhattan and the New Jersey waterfront.⁠ ⁠ Witnesses saw the helicopter “split in half” before crashing, reports said.⁠ #ny #usa #nzstuff

While it may look like she's standing in a river, Stuff's Juliet Speedy is actually standing in a flooded Christchurch street - and it's what hundreds of streets across Canterbury could look like today. ⁠#nz #christchurch #weather #nzstuff

📌 16 April, 2025 Tropical Cyclone Tam is now an ex-tropical cyclone, but that doesn't mean it's packing less of a punch. ⁠ ⁠ MetService is warning of 120kph gusts, flooding, thunderstorms and massive swells still to come. Maritime NZ says the forecast winds in the upper North Island are the strongest since 2017.⁠ ⁠ Around 3400 homes were also without power on Wednesday, so MetService's Heather Keats recommends making sure your devices are charged.⁠ #nz #weather #weatherforecast #nzstuff #metservice

The Government is reinstating a total ban on prisoner voting rights, despite concerns raised by the courts and experts about human rights.⁠ ⁠ Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith confirmed on Wednesday that Cabinet had agreed to remove the voting rights of prisoners who were serving sentences of less than three years.⁠ ⁠ Under existing law, prisoners who were serving sentences for longer than three years were already unable to vote.⁠ #nz #nzstuff

You might have noticed the weather starting to turn in your area. A deep, low-pressure system is coming in from the Tasman and is expected to bring heavy rain and strong winds, and there are several severe weather warnings in place across the country. #weather #nz #weatherforecast #nzstuff

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has suggested parents dissatisfied with school lunches should "make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag."⁠ ⁠ Speaking to Stuff on Tuesday morning, Associate Education Minister David Seymour said three-quarters of parents pack their children's lunches and they all have the option to do so.⁠ ⁠ Seymour also said he was taking very seriously an incident at Murchison Area School, where some lunches were overheated and overcooked.⁠ ⁠ "That was a major failure," Seymour told Stuff.⁠ #nzstuff #schoollunch #nz #davidseymour

Las Vegas is known for its bright lights, extravagant nightclubs and jaw-dropping price tags - but even seasoned socialisers like Brodie Kane and her friends weren’t quite prepared for the financial rollercoaster they experienced at Omnia Nightclub.⁠ #vegas #omnia #nzstuff #thegirlsuninterrupted #brodiekane

Is Air New Zealand spying on our fare searches? Is airplane mode really important? Is the mile-high club an actual thing? Explainer Editor Lloyd Burr sat down with Air NZ for a spot of mythbusting. ⁠#travel #airnz #flight #nz #nzstuff

The ferocity of the winds at Wellington's Lyall Bay is clearly evident as reporter Michael Daly does his best to stand up while being whipped by sea spray.⁠ #wellington #weather #nz #nzstuff

📌 15 April 2025 A deep subtropical low is heading towards Aotearoa, and it could bring some severe weather with it. Stuff's Laura Tupou has the latest weather warnings from MetService. #nz #weather #weatherforecast #nzstuff

When Vicky Ngo enrolled at AUT at the age of 13, she believed she was New Zealand’s youngest ever university student. That was until her sister Alisa Pham began her own undergraduate degree at the age of 11.⁠ ⁠ Now, at 18, Vicky is completing a PhD in cyber-security while working in Air New Zealand’s cyber-security department. Alisa, at 15, has signed on to do simultaneous masters degrees at AUT and Harvard.⁠ ⁠ But when their student visas expire in October, the two highly intelligent teenagers fear they will be deported back to their native Vietnam after being declined the chance to apply for residency by Immigration New Zealand.⁠ #nz #nzstuff

The wet weather system lashing New Zealand is continuing to move eastwards across the country - but not without making its mark. #weather #weatherforecast #nz #nzstuff

As a storm lashed Auckland in the early hours of Saturday morning, video has surfaced showing the Sky Tower being struck by lightning. The footage shows a strike hitting the tower, before the thunder that followed shook the people filming from a building some distance away. “That’s so f..... loud,” said Amanda Horne, the person filming. Horne told Stuff that she was filming the lightning from her balcony when she heard thunder so loud it caused her to sprint inside. “ I'd never heard anything like it, it was like the world was ending,” she said. #auckland #lightning #thunderstorm #weather #nz #nzstuff

A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake has rocked Southeast Asia, prompting evacuations in Thailand and Myanmar and causing the collapse of a high-rise building under construction.⁠ ⁠ Two people are dead, at least one is missing, and 50 have been injured in the building's collapse. Seven have been rescued.⁠ ⁠ Thai authorities have declared a state of emergency in Bangkok, the country's capital, while the military junta in Myanmar has declared an “emergency situation” across large parts of the centre of the country.⁠ ⁠ At least 13 people are dead and 200 injured in Myanmar, the New York Times is reporting. Details about the extent of the damage in the country - which has been ravaged by civil war since a military coup four years ago - are unclear. ⁠ ⁠ Khit Thit Media, one of the few independent news outlets in Myanmar following a military coup four years ago, has published a number of photos following the magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck the country.⁠ 📎 Head to Stuff.co.nz for live updates

British YouTuber Niko Omilana landed in New Zealand with no money, no place to stay, and no idea where he’ll sleep. But he’s pretty relaxed about it.⁠ ⁠ The 26-year-old creator, best known for pulling wild public stunts and running for London mayor "for the vibes", is midway through an audacious global challenge: travelling the world without spending a single cent.⁠ ⁠ Speaking to Stuff’s Imogen Wells as she gave him a lift into Auckland city, Omilana opened up about the chaos, kindness, and sheer exhaustion that’s shaped the journey so far...And he even landed himself a place to stay the night.⁠ #nikoomilana #nz #auckland #nzstuff

Stunning footage has emerged from the North Island town of Ōpōtiki, where this week a fireball was captured falling from space, lighting up the night sky.⁠ ⁠ The video, captured by cameras belonging to David Greig of Fireballs Aotearoa - a designated Section of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, showed the meteor at 10.49pm on Wednesday night.⁠ ⁠ Fireballs Aotearoa, a group that aims to recover freshly fallen meteorites, said it was looking to determine whether a meteorite had fallen in the area.⁠ ⁠ The group said the sky and the foreground looks very bright due to the bright moonlight and the very sensitive camera.⁠ #meteorite #fireball #nz #astronomy #nz #nzstuff

Foreign Minister Winston Peters has moved quickly to sack Phil Goff as high commissioner to the UK, after he took a jab at US President Donald Trump.⁠ ⁠ When asked if he had consulted with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon about Goff's sacking, Winston Peters said no, because he was the minister for foreign affairs.⁠ ⁠ When a journalist pointed out that Luxon was the prime minister, Peters bit back.⁠ ⁠ "This is not juvenile behaviour, I know he's the prime minister, I made him the prime minister."⁠ #nz #nzstuff #winstonpeters

Money raised for breast cancer research and the RSA was stolen from two different New Plymouth businesses at the weekend, with CCTV footage suggesting it was the same person.⁠ ⁠ Footage posted on social media appears to show the man taking a Pink Ribbon donation jar at Deluxe Diner restaurant, before going to a nearby Caltex petrol station, where an Anzac poppy donation bucket was taken.⁠ ⁠ Deluxe Diner manager Toni Gooch-Johnson said she was horrified by the theft.⁠ ⁠ “I can’t believe someone would steal from a charity, well, not even just one charity, but two charities,” she said.⁠ #nz #newplymouth #nzstuff

Jimmy Heremaia has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the 2022 murder of Ariki Rigby, after he killed her and set fire to a car with her body in it.⁠ ⁠ In March, Heremaia admitted murdering Rigby following an argument about her wearing a Mongrel Mob T-shirt.⁠ ⁠ Rigby was 18 when she was killed. Her body was found in a burnt out car in a car park beside the Tukituki River on the outskirts of Havelock North on September 5, 2022.⁠ ⁠ Heremaia, 32, was sentenced to life imprisonment on a charge of murder and arson in the High Court at Napier on Friday morning by Justice Jason McHerron.⁠ ⁠ Justice McHerron ordered him to serve a minimum of 12 years.⁠ ⁠ In a victim impact statement on Friday the sister of Ariki, Anahera Rigby, said the tragic loss of her sister has devastated her.⁠ ⁠ “For over two years I have struggled to find happiness. I am trying to piece together a heart I know may never heal.⁠ ⁠ “The way she was taken from me, so violently and tragically has turned my life into a living nightmare.”⁠ ⁠ “Despite this deep pain, I refuse to let it completely break me. I will continue to carry my sister's memory and fight to keep her spirit alive.”⁠ #nz #nzstuff

The Government wants to remove the requirement for a second practical test when gaining a driver's licence and reduce the number of eyesight tests required.⁠ ⁠ The proposal is part of the first major changes to the driver licence system since 2011.⁠ #driving #nz #nzstuff