More than half a dozen New Zealanders narrowly escaped last week's deadly flash floods on the Nepal-China border after their ...

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says there are long-standing protocols that give Taiwan observer status at the Pacific ...

Outgoing Labour MP and former Deputy Speaker Greg O'Connor has something of a reputation around Parliament for his interest in poetry. It was fitting then that the MP for the disappearing North ...

Southland's regional council will use emergency powers to open Waituna Lagoon to the sea after weeks of unusually high water ...

Police have found a body in Lake Rotokākahi, near Rotorua. Officers found the body at about 8am while investigating a ...

BNZ and Kiwibank have become the latest to move on interest rates, after the official cash rate was increased on Wednesday.

The Secretary for Education has confirmed Gloriavale Christian School's registration as a private school will be cancelled, ...

Residents in Nelson's Tāhunanui Hills are divided over speed bumps intended to slow traffic and reduce rat-running on the ...

A restaurant and takeaway business with branches in Auckland and Cromwell and its owner have been ordered to pay $130,000 in ...

Tauranga ratepayers are footing a $1.2 million legal bill following the Mt Maunganui landslide after the council ...