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 ...

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 ...

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

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

A Dunedin healer who sexually assaulted seven of his clients will be released from jail 18 months before the end of his sentence.

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

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

Dunedin police raided a Caversham "gang pad" in an investigation into stolen crayfish estimated to be worth several hundred thousand dollars. A sordid love affair in Broad Bay has split a popular ...

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

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 ...

Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has hinted that New Zealand may soon announce the start of long-anticipated trade ...