Customers Jump Up to Help Run Restaurant When Chef is Left Alone After Staff Emergency: 'Beautiful to witness'
Huntly, New Zealand restaurant customers jumped in to help when Thai Food Huntly lost most of its staff on a busy Friday night.
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Karma Comes Back Around for Man Who Broke Religious Rule to Help Boy
One good deed has led to another for a man who broke a tenet of his religion to help and provide comfort to a little boy hurt in an accident.
A Homemade Bumper Sticker Saved a Stranger's Life After She Asked the Universe For 'a Sign'
College student Brooke Lacey's bumper sticker has saved a suicidal persons life. Here's that story from New Zealand. It's inspiring.
KÄkÄpÅ Population Soars to its Highest Number in Almost 50 Years
The world's largest and only flightless parrot has been confined to predator-free islands for decades, but positive winds are blowing.
Fossil Found by Kids in New Zealand Turns Out to Be 27 Million-Year-old Giant Penguin
A fossilized penguin was found by kids in 2006 in New Zealand, which has now gone on to be a new species, uniting the giant penguin genus.
70 New Species Were Discovered in 2021 - Including 2 Guitarfish and a Pink Pygmy Pipehorse
The California Academy of Sciences announced 70 new plant and animal species discovered in 2021 on five continents.
Mom and Daughter Reunite With Nurse Who Saved Their Lives 30 Years Ago-Now as Co-Workers
She managed to acquire the £70 cost for the life-saving surgery in 1993 and formed a close bond with Catherine, but lost touch.
Prehistoric Bird Once Thought to Be Extinct Returns to New Zealand Wild
For the Māori, the reintroduction is incredibly special. In the past Māori people gathered the feathers of the bird into cloaks.
Digging A Wastewater Pipe Reveals Fossil Treasure Trove of Unknown Species 3-Million-Years-Old
182 different mollusks were recorded, including the oldest known member of the genera containing the famous New Zealand flax snail.
Cuteness Overload as Seal Walks into New Zealand Hardware Store
Seals found in Bunnings tend to be for windows or pipes, and don't typically come with whiskers or flippers.
Hero Teen Saves Brother Being Swept Away: 'Mom…I Might Not Be Back'
In New Zealand, a young boy has become the world's youngest recipient of the Mountbatten Award after saving his younger brother
Lonely Birthday Boy Receives Big Surprise When Convoy of 40 Truckers Come to Parade Him Through Town
Oliver Johnson turned 8 years old yesterday. Lonely by nature, his mother had just the idea of what might cheer him up.
Kava Plant Used for Centuries in Traditional Medicine Now Studied for PTSD Treatment
Kava comes in many traditional names, all relating to the root of the Piper methysticum plant, consumed with company when mixed with water
Powering Cars With Wood Byproducts Turned into Graphite for EV Batteries
Graphite is an indispensible resource for mass battery production, and a firm in New Zealand has discovered a way to synthesize it from wood.
Scientist Photographs Once in a Lifetime Sighting of Bird with Half Male and Half Female Plumage
Half of its body was blue, which meant that the men were looking at a "bilateral gynandromorph," or a bird that was half male half female.
Endangered New Zealand Bird Chooses Airport as Nesting Sanctuary, With Tall Fences to Keep Out All Their Predators
Over the last ten years, Hawley has estimated that she has seen 80 dotterels hatch on the taxiways of the country's busiest airport
When Man Gets Ominous Email From His Boss, He Hires Clown to be His Invited 'Support Person' at the Meeting
Rather than bring a therapy dog or doting friend to his job termination meeting, this cheeky New Zealand man decided to have some fun and hire a clown.
Population Doubles For One of New Zealand's Rarest Birds, As 150 Chicks Hatch This Season
The adorable orange-fronted parakeet is making an impressive comeback in New Zealand-doubling its population with an epic hatch in 2019, thanks to trees.
Airline to Stop Using 55 Million Plastic Items On Flights
Air New Zealand announced it was cutting 55 million plastic items from flights, starting this month—which will cut 3.5 million tons of CO2 from the skies.
Depressed Cow 'Overjoyed' to Be Reunited With Therapy Goat Stolen From Their Paddock
After Peaches the goat was stolen out of her paddock last month, Bunter the cow was devastated-but thankfully, they have finally been reunited.
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