Melissa Stokes

1 month ago | 1news.co.nz | Melissa Stokes

Michael Campbell made it to the top. He said as a ten year old growing up in Petone that he’d win a golf major, and he went out and did it. Only three New Zealanders have won them. He sits in the middle of two New Zealand's biggest names in golf, Bob Charles, and Lydia Ko.His run to become US Open champ began in 2005, and as the field dropped away it became apparent Pinehurst was about to witness a David and Goliath sized battle, with a certain Tiger Woods on the fairway.

2 months ago | 1news.co.nz | Melissa Stokes

It was all just a joke. A set up that made Levi Hawken and his mates laugh, riotously. Its maybe too far to say the joke backfired, but it changed Levi’s life forever and he didn’t love all of it. He’s the “Nek Minnit” guy, going viral back in 2011 in a big way – at the time, the saying was everywhere. Hawken said of the time: “I didn't really know that it was going to get that big.

Oct 18, 2024 | 1news.co.nz | Melissa Stokes

The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior was an event that led the news for weeks, with many saying it was a time that saw the country lose its innocence. Former Greenpeace chief executive Bunny McDiarmid was a deckhand aboard the Rainbow Warrior in 1985. The crew, based in the Pacific Ocean, campaigned against nuclear testing and relocated Marshall Islanders from an atoll polluted by radioactive fallout. "It was our home – it was all of our home," McDiarmid said.

Sep 6, 2024 | 1news.co.nz | Melissa Stokes

There is political news and then there is Political News — deserving of the capital letters. These are stories that not just pundits or analysts are talking about but they reverberate around the country, from the school gate, taxi drivers to the family dinner table. Stories that consume the news cycle for days on end. Arguably New Zealand's biggest Political News story was 40 years ago. Sir Robert Muldoon, slurring on his words called a snap election.

Aug 16, 2024 | 1news.co.nz | Melissa Stokes

There’s a climbing wall in the gym at Elim Christian College in Botany. It's divided into seven different tracks, with phrases of encouragement written alongside “do your best, love, trust God.” These phrases urge you to keep going and keep fighting all the way to the ceiling. The sentiment is big at the school, the message that life keeps going, that you have to keep moving even when you’ve been brought to your knees.