aura Casey is facing the reality of turning off life-support for her husband, Seamus Casey, after the celebrated young Christchurch opera singer was hit by a car, leaving him in a coma in Sydney.
Casey, 27, attended Burnside High School and did a Diploma of Performing Arts at the Hagley Theatre Company before moving offshore to [...]
This Patagonian winter resort town wears a mantle of white in the South American autumn. But it’s not from early snows.
Ash from the Chaiten volcano across the Andes in Chile has been falling on the Argentine side of the border since the long-dormant volcano erupted last week — its first eruption in thousands of years.
The [...]
Thousands of teens reveal their perceptions, experience in scientific survey
Perception does not equal reality with teen drivers according to a study released today by The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and State Farm Insurance(R) in the journal Pediatrics. Using the National Young Driver Survey, researchers studied more than 5,000 9th through 11th graders from across [...]
At the school, all is good, and green. Their hands caked in dirt, giggling students plant seedlings in their new garden.
But outside Sheppard Elementary School in Roseland, temptation awaits: a dozen vendors line the sidewalks, ringing bells to signal a bounty of soda, candy, ice cream, and the increasingly popular snack, Cheetos “Flaming Hot with [...]
The economic slowdown has swelled the ranks of people without health insurance. But now it is also threatening millions of people who have insurance but find that the coverage is too limited or that they cannot afford their own share of medical costs.
Even many of the 158 million people covered by employer health insurance are [...]
Spring is here or so the calendar on my desk top informs me. I will believe it more when the 7 foot snow mountain on my deck melts and I can find my Weber which is buried like a Cracker Jack prize somewhere at the bottom of it all. Earth Day reminds me: I know [...]
School holidays have rolled around again, meaning hungry tummies aplenty. Naomi Mitchell meets a Nelson woman aiming to transform the diet of teenagers.
Charlie Ainscough’s job is one that many people would dread - feeding dozens of hungry teenagers every day.
But Ainscough, a chef for 17 years, loves it - and her enthusiasm is catching on.
She [...]
Six Elim Christian College students and a teacher died after the group of 12 they were part of got caught out by a rapidly rising Mangatepopo Stream near Turangi.
A spokeswoman for Mr Carter confirmed to NZPA he had met officials yesterday and had said it was time for the guidelines, which have been in place [...]
Six Elim Christian College students and a teacher died after the group of 12 they were part of got caught out by a rapidly rising Mangatepopo Stream near Turangi.
A spokeswoman for Mr Carter confirmed to NZPA he had met officials yesterday and had said it was time for the guidelines, which have been in place [...]
After 11 years at Waihopai Schools Park Syndicate the 16-year-old pupil is ready to move on.
It was an emotional last day for Antonia, who has global development delay and neurofibromatosis, and the presentation of an album full of photos from her time at the school brought tears to her eyes as well as a smile [...]
