A soft ball for babies and young children has been recalled on the basis it poses a choking risk. A NASA telescope has ...

A 66-year-old woman is in a critical condition and an 82-year-old woman has serious injuries after a hatchback car and heavy truck collided on a notorious accident blackspot near Henley yesterday. A ...

Hundreds more jobs are poised to go at Health New Zealand under proposals to be laid out to staff on Friday. Parts of the ...

Neighbours are in shock after attempts to save a "wheelchair-bound" woman from a Christchurch house fire on Wednesday afternoon were unsuccessful. Hundreds more jobs are poised to go at Health New ...

A car was set alight and two properties spray painted with anti-Israel messages in Sydney just days after an arson attack at ...

Maori Hill residents have been left horrified after hearing an elderly neighbour fell in her garden and lay injured for ...

One person is dead after a house fire in the Christchurch suburb of Hornby this afternoon. The man who killed 62-year-old ...

Some councillors may not have dared speak up after revelations the DCC's chief executive was in the habit of insulting them, but Cr Mandy Mayhem was one who did.

One person has died after a serious crash on the South Island’s West Coast. A police spokesperson said the single-vehicle crash on the ...

A 37-year-old man has been charged with murder after a fatal crash in the west Auckland suburb of Massey. A motorist's ...

Whooping cough cases have almost doubled in the past week, and Southland continues to have the most cases. Political leaders ...

Syrian rebels battled government forces for control of the key city of Homs on Saturday and advanced towards the capital ...