Deaths and Tributes

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (89+ words) Container News CentrePort has advised of a fatal incident at Wellington’s port involving a worker employed by an independent stevedore. The port authority has extended its thoughts to the family of the worker, his colleagues, the independent stevedore and the…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (349+ words) The Australian has launched a new investigative true crime podcast from Hedley Thomas, national chief correspondent for The Australian, reopening the 1986 cold-case murder of Rosslyn McQueen. McQueen was a 30-year-old pregnant mother when she died in rural Victoria in 1986. Thomas…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (405+ words) Legendary soprano Ileana Cotrubaș has died at the age of 87. Born in Galați, Romania on June 9, 1939, Cotrubaș grew up in a musical family with her father, Vasile a tenor in an amateur choir. At the age of nine, she began…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (393+ words) The “tragic” death of a man in his 20s might have been avoided if medication had been prescribed earlier, a coroner has said. The 29-year-old Jake Read was found deceased at his home in Melton on May 5 last year, having taken…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (111+ words) Waikato police are investigating an unexplained sudden death. Detective Senior Sergeant Reece Durston said a scene investigation was underway following a sudden death incident in the northern Hamilton suburb of Rototuna. “The death is being treated as unexplained,” Durston said....

4+ week, 15+ hour ago   (541+ words) A doctor has also previously shared what her patients' biggest regrets were before they passed away No one wants to have regrets in their life when it's time to move on, but one psychic who claims she can 'talk to…...