6 September 2026
Memphis wrestling legend Bill Dundee died at 82 on Sunday morning.
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6 September 2026
The average Kiwi home is now worth $894,977, down 1. 7 percent since the start of the year.
6 September 2026
Passengers at Auckland Airport will see a change to the order of passport control and security screening from late 2027.
6 September 2026
Chlöe Swarbrick says it won't be up to politicians to determine the price of eggs should the government set up its own supermarket chain.
6 September 2026
Ventura Offshore has struck a management deal with Eldorado Drilling for the seventh-generation Deep Value Driller and simultaneously secured a one-well drilling contract with Petronas in Indonesia valued at around $58m. The Oslo-listed contractor said it will provide marketing and operations management services for the ultra-deepwater drillship, expanding a managed fleet that already includes Eldorado’s …
6 September 2026
Germany’s Leonhardt & Blumberg has signed up for another pair of MR chemical and product tanker newbuildings at Guangzhou Shipyard International, extending its rapid move into the tanker sector. The Hamburg owner signed for two additional 49,500 dwt vessels with CSSC’s GSI, adding to its series at the yard that kicked off two years ago. …
6 September 2026
Greek owner Sea Pioneer Shipping has emerged as the company behind SK Oceanplant’s recently announced series of six firm plus two optional aframax tankers. Market sources have identified the Vasilis Bacolitsas-led owner as the previously unnamed Greek customer behind six 115,000 dwt crude carriers at the South Korean yard, with two further options attached. SK …
6 September 2026
Video showed thick smoke rising from the plane crash of the Boeing 767 that the Federal Aviation Administration says overran the airport runway in Miami. (Image credit: Joe Raedle)
