A Birdlings Flat resident has taken top honours in a global competition to find the world’s ugliest lawn. Police believe ...

A runaway car that crashed into another vehicle in central Dunedin sparked a response from emergency services this morning. Six years after completing the first leg of his solo circumnavigation of the ...

Firefighters have finally started gaining control over two major wildfires in Los Angeles, as fierce winds that supercharged ...

Police across the motu will observe a minute's silence in honour of the Nelson police officer killed on New Year's Day. The Regulatory Standards Bill is "dangerous" and "alarm bells need to ring", ...

Scientists need help to work out why monarch butterfly populations in Australasia seem to be declining, writes Myron Zalucki. Norman Winter of Tribune News Services takes a look at a new flower ...

A mother of three is facing a $38,000 bill for overpayment of Working for Families credits after being caught out due to an oversight in filling out an IRD form. Police have confirmed two people who ...

Electricity was lost at places such as Sawyers Bay and Roseneath today after vegetation struck power lines. As LA construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in ...

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on December 29 stopped recording about four ...

The government has been accused of a "blatant disregard for transparency" as unanswered questions continue to mount while the ...

Scrub fires around the country are keeping fire crews busy today. The firefighters' union has serious concerns about the deteriorating state of Auckland's frontline fleet of fire trucks and specialist ...

A person has died after being found at the bottom of a cliff in the Coromandel. More of upscale Pacific Palisades is being ...

Police are investigating the unexplained death of a man in Nelson. Health NZ says it will increase security at Middlemore ...