The government is shifting its work and safety regulator's priorities from enforcement to advice, saying this will help address concerns ...

Providing a space for Samoans living in Dunedin to connect with their homeland is the goal for the community when celebrating Samoan ...

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, ...

Mushroom cook Erin Patterson will give evidence to her highly publicised triple-murder trial, after she was called as a defence witness. The deaths of children in driveways is "all too common" in this ...

The most successful cyclist in New Zealand Olympic history has dedicated her latest honour to the people who supported her decorated career - ...

A senior government minister has refused to apologise to a Lake Alice abuse survivor for telling the United Nations more than ...

More than 30 Palestinians were killed and nearly 170 injured in south Gaza near a food distribution site, the health ministry said.

Stark warnings about looming gridlock in Queenstown have sparked pleas for urgent investment in public transport. It is seven months since Queenstown girl Meila Davis died of an aggressive bone cancer ...

Tweaking rules to enable theatre venues not owned by the Dunedin City Council to be developed with council debt might be "clever", but also ...

Loretta Swit, who played US Army combat nurse Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in the hit TV series "M*A*S*H" for more than a decade, has died at the age of 87. An electricity outage on Otago ...

The chorus of defence contractors interested in working on the proposed missile defence system is growing, with the New Zealand-founded ...

A mother of five used a stranger’s driver’s licence details to create a fictitious carer for herself so she could get nearly $30,000 in payments, while also collecting ACC benefits. In his first ...