Skip to content
HeyJared

Tess Brunton

Reporter · NZ

Indexed articles, last 90 days
3
Latest publication
Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for NZ Herald
Top 5K sites
Earliest in this view
Jul 15, 2026

Latest articles

  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Tess Brunton

    Council may abandon controversial Lauder sludge disposal plan (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Removing stored sludge from Cromwell could cost more than $3 million. Central Otago District Council could backtrack on plans to truck treated human effluent on to farmland after discovering the proposed site near Lauder might not be able to handle all of its sludge. The council will decide on Wednesday on how to deal with a growing volume of treated wastewater sludge, with staff warning that Cromwell’s ponds urgently need de-sludging and geobags containing thousands of cubic metres of dried slu

  2. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Tess Brunton

    Council may abandon controversial Lauder sludge disposal plan (opens the original)

    Excerpt · English

    Read excerpt

    Removing stored sludge from Cromwell could cost more than $3 million. Central Otago District Council could backtrack on plans to truck treated human effluent on to farmland after discovering the proposed site near Lauder might not be able to handle all of its sludge. The council will decide on Wednesday on how to deal with a growing volume of treated wastewater sludge, with staff warning that Cromwell’s ponds urgently need de-sludging and geobags containing thousands of cubic metres of dried slu

  3. Article · Jul 15, 2026 · Tess Brunton

    Former owner of Dunedin's Captain Cook Hotel jailed for paying minor for sex (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone · English

    Read excerpt

    Michael McLeod has been sentenced in the Dunedin District Court after paying a 15-year-old for sex and drug charges. Photo / RNZ, Tess Brunton A Dunedin entertainment industry figure who paid a 15-year-old for sex can now be identified. Michael McLeod, the former owner of iconic Dunedin pub The Captain Cook Hotel, has been jailed for two years and three months for contracting the minor for sex. While sentencing McLeod in the Dunedin District Court on Wednesday, Judge David Robinson described the

Publishing over time

Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.

Recurring subjects

Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.

Audience

Top 5K sites

For NZ Herald, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026

Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.

About this data

Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.

Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.

See coverage about Tess Brunton