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Parents must register the name of their baby before the child is 2 months old. Each year, we learn the most popular names for girls and boys. Last year the most popular girls name was Ruby. This is quite an old name, popular in the time of our grand-...
One hundred years ago today, January 17th 1912, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four other men, reached the South Pole. They had hoped to be the first to reach the South Pole but were very disappointed to find the Norwegian flag flying there. The exp...
First listen to the previous item: Journey to the South Pole. Tomorrow an exhibition called Scotts Last Expedition opens in London, in the Museum of Natural History. Captain Scott and the four men who went to the South Pole with him, died on their re...
Once again, Christchurch is hosting the Buskers Festival. This time it is the 19th year. Buskers are street performers. Listen to January 24th 2011 to hear about last years events. This year it will be different but the same, said organizers. The ven...
Four men were arrested yesterday and charged with internet piracy of movies and TV shows. Their website MegaUpload was a file-sharing website, with 50 million hits daily. It was based in Hong Kong. One of the founders of the website, a man who calls...
Lignite is low grade coal which contains more moisture than high grade coal and is dirty to burn. Southland has ten areas with lignite. Solid Energy, which is a government company, plans to mine this lignite. The company has plans to build a $25m bri...
Meridian Energy has decided not to go ahead with their plan to put 176 wind turbines in Central Otago. Local people set up a protest group. This group has spent a lot of time and money fighting to stop Meridian Energy for the last six years. In 2009,...
TAG Oil and its partner Apache both Canadian companies have the rights to 500,000 hectares around Gisborne and South Hawkes Bay. TAG Oil says they have had some success in finding gas although they have not developed any wells yet. The company told s...
On Friday, the Prime Minister announced that a Chinese company, the Shanghai Pengxin group will be allowed to buy the 16 Crafar dairy farms. The owner of the Shanghai Pengxin group is a billionaire, Jiang Zhaobai. Mr Crafar lost his farms when he was...
The new school year begins again this week for most schools. Most primary schools start again tomorrow although the Ministry of Education website says the starting date can be any week-day from 30th January to 7th February. February 6th is a national...
Occupy Wall St which began in New York in September has spread around the world. By last Saturday, there were 2,668 groups in about 100 countries. Occupy protest groups have been in our main cities for the last six weeks but now councils are getting...
Christchurch and Dunedin have their Santa parade tomorrow. Wellington and Auckland had their Santa parades in November 13th for Wellington and 27th for Auckland. It was good weather for both parades. Crowds of people lined the streets to watch the pa...
Some rivers and beaches in New Zealand are not clean enough. A new report to the Minister of Conservation, Kate Wilkinson, says that we need to do more to protect rivers. Some of the problems with rivers are because too much water is taken out of the...
The Pike River Mine Commission is still listening to evidence about why 29 men died at the mine last November. Each day, we hear about things that were not right at the mine. There were money problems. The mine was losing money and the men were under...
After the Labour Party lost the election, the leader, Phil Goff, resigned. Later this week the Party will choose another leader. They will choose between two men David Shearer and David Cunliffe. Both men have been speaking at Labour Party meetings....
