The New Zealand Army Emergency Response team has trained for the first time in using a commercial fixed-wing aircraft to ...

Culture is the winner at the end of the day.” That’s how Indigenous Men’s captain Nicho Hynes summed up this year’s NRL All ...

Dentists are raising concerns about the underfunding of a dental contract that provides free treatment for teens, with one ...

David Seymour proposes reducing government departments from 41 to 30 and ministers to 20. Seymour argues the current public sector is inefficient and over-governed compared to similar countries. The ...

Kevin Page is a teller of tall tales with a firm belief too much serious news gives you frown lines. Picture, if you will, a sun-soaked bit of grass adjacent to the cottage we are currently residing ...

The Beths, led by singer/songwriter Liz Stokes, have toured the world for the past three months after last year’s album was ...

A single bar of mobile phone coverage allowed people trapped by slips in rural Taihape to raise the alarm. Cars stranded by a slip in rural Taihape are now free after a local farmer cleared a path ...

A Wellington plastic surgeon is patching up dog attack victims on a weekly basis, with some injuries so severe they are life-changing. Dr Emily Yassaie has already treated two dog attack victims this ...

Dalton Papali’i, captain of the Blues, will depart the club after the 2026 Super Rugby season to take up an opportunity with French Top 14 team Castres Olympique. Papali’i, who debuted for the Blues ...

Police have urged a group who kidnapped an elderly man in a suspected case of mistaken identity to safely return him to his family. Police and loved ones hold grave fears for Chris Baghsarian, 85, who ...

South Wairarapa residents are turning to one another in the face of “unprecedented” flooding that triggered several evacuations overnight. The stormy weather lashing the region caused rivers to burst ...

Mayor Rodney Dow told the Waikato Herald there were still a few isolated communities but the district had started “getting ...