New Zealand Police are seeing too many crashes caused by people using their phones.

There is no excuse, says Superintendent Steve Greally, National Manager for Road Policing.

Article: https://www.newsie.co.nz/news/161096-dont-trade-your-life-text-message.html
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Dunedin City Council has become the second council in the country to become an accredited living wage employer.

The announcement was made today in Dunedin where the 2019 list for accredited living wage employers was made.

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Wannabe robbers ripped an ATM machine from a wall in a small Canterbury town, but were not able to get any money out it.

Darfield residents will now have to travel out of town if they want to withdraw money outside of work hours after the town's only automated teller machine (ATM) was smashed out of its shop front. 

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115465469/darfield-community-left-inconvenienced-after-towns-only-247-atm-ripped-from-wall
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Health experts in Auckland have criticised anti-vaxxers as "misinformed" as the number of confirmed cases passes 800.

Measles should not be treated as a trivial illness, Auckland Regional Public Health Service (ARPHS) spokesman William Ranger said.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/115469156/auckland-measles-outbreak-arphs-criticises-misinformed-antivaxxers-as-number-of-cases-passes-800
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Auckland parents say fears over the measles outbreak have caused them to change their day-to-day habits. 

There have been 778 cases confirmed in Auckland region as of Saturday, with 19 new diagnoses since Friday, the Auckland Regional Public Health Service said.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/115444170/auckland-measles-outbreak-fear-of-infection-shaping-families-daytoday-life
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that two New Zealanders have died in a plane crash in the Philippines. 

All nine people on board a small Beechcraft King Air 350 medical evacuation plane were killed when the aircraft crashed into a resort area near Calamba City and exploded in flames, officials said.

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An 18-year-old from the United States was put into a medically-induced coma to recover from ailments doctors believed were sustained from vaping.

Maddie Nelson from Utah vaped every day for three years, according to US media outlet Fox 13.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/115460424/my-brain-just-completely-shut-off-vapinginduced-illness-lands-us-teen-in-coma
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Detectives are investigating after a reveller was stabbed during a mass brawl at a party in the Dunedin student quarter.

Article: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/one-stabbed-during-mass-brawl-hyde-st
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