Articles by Michaela Gower
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Watch: Customer attacks Hastings phone store owner over 5G connectivity issue
Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 12:19pmA family has been left feeling “helpless” after a violent in-store attack in their Hastings phone repair shop that was captured...
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Yummy Fruit Company turns 50 amid cyclone recovery
Sunday, 27 October 2024, 4:13pmWhen you ask the founder of the Yummy Fruit Company John Paynter if he would have done anything differently during his tenure...
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Dannevirke’s Luke Kemeys: Reaching your savings goal in 3 steps
Friday, 25 October 2024, 3:39pmLuke Kemeys has always loved numbers, finance and business and he is now working towards helping others feel the same. The...
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‘Fire bomb’ destroys family vehicle: ‘We watched our $100,000 ute go up in flames’
Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 1:12pmA Dannevirke family watched helplessly as their 2022 ute burned after four masked men threw a “firebomb” into the vehicle. Annette...
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Petrol pumps down across the country because of leap year glitch, hopes for fix soon
Thursday, 29 February 2024, 10:14amFuel stations are reporting nationwide outages at self-service pumps. Allied Petroleum, Gull, Z, Waitomo and other fuel...
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Stay out of the water: DoC warning after shark kills stranded whale
Tuesday, 27 February 2024, 2:00pmThe Department of Conservation (DoC) says volunteers trying to refloat stranded whales face a heightened risk of shark attacks. The...
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Ghost aisles: The soon-to-be closed supermarket that’s a shadow of what it once was
Friday, 23 February 2024, 2:11pmThe aisles of a soon-to-be-shut New World supermarket in Hawke’s Bay are eerily bare, with a councillor saying the shopping...
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At least 50 lambs dead after van and stock truck crash, overturning trailer
Thursday, 8 February 2024, 3:20pmAt least 50 lambs have already died and more deaths are expected after a stock truck and a van crashed near Ōtāne on Wednesday. A...
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'Devastating': Town of more than 10,000 to lose its only supermarket
Friday, 19 January 2024, 10:18amFoodstuffs is abandoning the low-income suburb of Flaxmere, leaving the town of more than 10,000 people without a supermarket...
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'Just my nature': Plaudits for worker's generous act before woman's heartwarming Lotto win
Tuesday, 16 January 2024, 11:39amA heartwarming story about a $1 million Lotto win has not just shone the spotlight on winner Rana, but also the community...
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Rana's Lotto joy: In the morning she couldn't pay for fuel, by afternoon she was a millionaire
Friday, 12 January 2024, 4:01pmA new millionaire’s life-changing trip to the store where she would check her Lotto ticket was made using a $10 top-up of...
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'She was telling everyone': The moment a young woman became a millionaire
Wednesday, 10 January 2024, 3:53pmThere was an agonising 10-minute wait, followed by tears of joy and frantic phone calls to family, as a young Maraenui woman...
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'Team effort': Tropical tuna hauled aboard by family near Cape Kidnappers
Friday, 5 January 2024, 3:44pmA Hawke’s Bay fisherman has bagged a yellowfin tuna just off Cape Kidnappers. David Tyman set out on Friday morning with...
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'Just the beginning': Student awarded half a million dollar scholarship to US but might not accept it
Tuesday, 7 November 2023, 3:19pmHavelock North High School student and promising athlete Sofia Lumbreras has been offered a $500,000 scholarship to attend...
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'I haven't heard them complain': The jobseekers who rebuilt Tararua’s cyclone-smashed farm fences
Tuesday, 31 October 2023, 3:14pmA group of jobseekers who wanted to help farmers with the enormity of the task at hand after Cyclone Gabrielle have spent...
