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Police have closed access to Battle Hill Forest Park - as searches for a downed helicopter continue north of Wellington

28 January 2026

Police have closed access to Battle Hill Forest Park - as searches for a downed helicopter continue north of Wellington

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5 years on from the junta’s coup, Myanmar’s flawed elections can’t unite a country at risk of breaking apart
	28 Jan: Far from being free and fair, the elections lack any meaningful resemblance to democratic practice.... more

A former priest at a Christchurch Catholic boys' school has admitted sexually abusing and indecently assaulting students
	28 Jan: A former priest at a Christchurch Catholic boys' school has admitted sexually abusing and indecently assaulting students... more

Otaki MP Tim Costley is urging people to give emergency services space, after a reported helicopter crash near Paekakariki Hill Road, north of Wellington
	28 Jan: Otaki MP Tim Costley is urging people to give emergency services space, after a reported helicopter crash near Paekakariki Hill Road, north of Wellington... more

Rocket or arugula? How a salad vegetable mapped the Italian diaspora
	28 Jan: The words used to describe this peppery green are a linguistic fossil record revealing the history of Italian migration.... more

Police are asking for help in finding Christchurch man Roy Markland - with grave concerns for his welfare, after he was last seen yesterday leaving his Burnside address
	28 Jan: Police are asking for help in finding Christchurch man Roy Markland - with grave concerns for his welfare, after he was last seen yesterday leaving his Burnside address... more

The cold war maps that can help us rethink today’s Arctic conflict
	28 Jan: Donald Trump grew up in cold war America. Maps of the time had an overtly political purpose.... more

Greenland’s Inuit have spent decades fighting for self-determination
	28 Jan: Greenland’s inhabitants call it Kalaallit Nunaat, or land of the Kalaallit. It is an Indigenous nation whose relatively few people now mostly govern themselves.... more

Two people have been arrested after a police chase spanning Christchurch's eastern suburbs
	28 Jan: Two people have been arrested after a police chase spanning Christchurch's eastern suburbs... more

A new name for Wellington's stadium
	28 Jan: A new name for Wellington's stadium... more

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Police have closed access to Battle Hill Forest Park - as searches for a downed helicopter continue north of Wellington 14:17

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