The government is responding to animal welfare issues at flood-affected farms at the top of the South Island, but concedes the number of ...

After his two young cousins were killed in a car crash on Summit Rd in Christchurch, Rob Fleming was motivated to help save lives.

Sonny Bill Williams won't get a rematch after Paul Gallen announced his retirement from all sport following his split points boxing win over ...

A man has been found dead on a bus in central Auckland this morning. The body of the unresponsive man was found about 5.35am on a bus at the ...

The price of a block of butter is now 120% higher than it was 10 years ago, and increases in dairy prices in general helped pull up food prices in June, according to Stats NZ. Food prices lifted 4.6% ...

Good food, country living and hard work are the secrets behind reaching 100, says Canterbury centenarian Valmai Wilson.

The power and internet bills are paid but Latu said dinner is sometimes just rice - her children's schools are part of the government lunch programme. "Sometimes if we have, we have. If not, they come ...

A man cut open by a bottle thrown into a partying crowd was taken to hospital as disorder erupted on north Dunedin's notorious Castle St last ...

Police are continuing to appeal for information from the public following a fatal crash in Canterbury that claimed the life of a person in ...

Abandoned - that is how customers of a Christchurch Westpac branch are feeling after the bank announced it will close its doors on August 8.

Israel has launched airstrikes in Damascus, blowing up part of the defence ministry and vowing to destroy government forces attacking Druze ...

Tessa Elizabeth Macintosh Sheild, 20, of Marlborough, died following a crash near Hampden, in North Otago. The two-vehicle crash was reported to emergency services about 4.20pm on Sunday. Police ...