What to book now for 2024: New travel routes, tours and cruises for next year

What to book now for 2024: New travel routes, tours and cruises for next year

Virgin Voyages’ Valiant Lady cruise ship offers something for everyone, whether you’re looking to indulge or unwind. Photo / Supplied Each week in Travel, we check out some of the latest happenings from Aotearoa and beyond to inspire your next adventure. Brussels routes If you’ve already flipped through this week’s Travel pages, read our story … Read more

Media Insider: Kim Hill on the leaders’ debate, leaving RNZ and her extraordinary career; Rupert Murdoch steps down; Radio stars settle with MediaWorks; Facebook news traffic plunges

Media Insider: Kim Hill on the leaders’ debate, leaving RNZ and her extraordinary career; Rupert Murdoch steps down; Radio stars settle with MediaWorks; Facebook news traffic plunges

Departures: RNZ broadcaster Kim Hill and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch with son and successor Lachlan. Photos: file/ AP Kim Hill: ‘We have to find another model … that wasn’t a debate’; Radio stars, including Tova O’Brien, settle with MediaWorks; Rupert Murdoch steps down; IAB Awards finalists; Barry Soper’s One Good Text. Broadcaster Kim Hill … Read more

Nature, coffee and pastries reign at SunSan Bake, nestled in a hidden slope off Old Klang Road

Nature, coffee and pastries reign at SunSan Bake, nestled in a hidden slope off Old Klang Road

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – The bar welcomes you in duotone: slate grey for the counter, vermilion wood for the base and stools. On display are the pastries of the day, each lovingly arranged on raised trays like works of art. Almond croissants and kouign-amann, that most buttery and sweet of all Breton pastries. Apple … Read more

Six hundred dollars to fly to Auckland and back: Napier candidate fires shot at Air NZ over last-minute flights

Six hundred dollars to fly to Auckland and back: Napier candidate fires shot at Air NZ over last-minute flights

Six hundred dollars to do a round trip from Napier to Auckland on Air New Zealand is too steep for Labour Party Napier electorate candidate Mark Hutchinson’s liking. He says he forked that out for a family member to fly out of Hawke’s Bay Airport last week. Yes, the flight was booked at reasonably short … Read more

Auckland crime: Police arrest six children aged 12 and 13 for breaking into cars

Auckland crime: Police arrest six children aged 12 and 13 for breaking into cars

Six 12- and 13-year-old kids have been arrested overnight for breaking into cars in East Auckland. Six children aged 12 and 13 years have been arrested overnight for breaking into cars in East Auckland. A police spokesperson said officers received reports at 3.45am about the group of offenders and the Eagle helicopter was sent. Counties … Read more

Stuart, Lawrence, Russell and Bayliss all on Summer Nations duty

Stuart, Lawrence, Russell and Bayliss all on Summer Nations duty

Steve Borthwick and Gregor Townsend both name Bath Rugby duos for their Summer Nations fixtures this weekend. stuart & Lawrence in for England Borthwick has selected tighthead, Will Stuart, for his second start in as many games in the Summer Nations Series.  The prop is one of four players to retain their place in Borthwick’s … Read more

Toronto store known for low prices forced to close because of rent hike

Toronto store known for low prices forced to close because of rent hike

An independent retailer that has long been a staple for all kinds of cheaply-priced items in Toronto’s Beaches neighbourhood is suddenly shuttering for good after the property’s landlord unexpectedly jacked up the rent. Locals have noticed some new posters in the windows of Plus Dollar and Bargain at Queen St. E. and Woodbine Ave. announcing an abrupt sale and … Read more

South Atlanta business owner forced to close after repeated break-ins

South Atlanta business owner forced to close after repeated break-ins

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – Atlanta police are looking for a man who repeatedly robbed a business in South Atlanta. Authorities say Reggie’s Food Mart on Dill Avenue was hit three times in a week in early July. The business owner is frustrated and tired and has taken the help of lawyer Musa Ghanayem. … Read more