Public health experts have found New Zealand's water infrastructure system is leaking at a rate far higher than in leading European countries. The upper North Island is expected to be in for a ...

Warning: graphic content. A woman called her husband and sent a photo to police while she was being allegedly violated close to Coronet Peak near Queenstown, a court has heard. A man who knocked out a ...

The family and friends of a New Zealand woman allegedly set on fire by a man accused of trying to murder her in Australia say ...

Wānaka is shaping as the place to be for those seeking some summer sun and heat this week. More than 100 people gathered at a ...

Soldiers killed nine unarmed people at an AngloGold Ashanti AU.N mine on Saturday night, a Ghanaian small-scale miners' ...

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

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

Politicians past and present have paid their respects to Dame Tariana Turia - with Labour MP Willie Jackson saying the party ...

A cold snap is being felt across the country, with high winds forcing the cancelling of ferry crossings and some North Island ...

Surf photographer Rambo Estrada has always been drawn to the back roads of Aotearoa. He talks to surfer and student Finn Vette while checking out Dunedin and the south coast's waves.

Effluent could have been leaching into two Queenstown rivers late last year, it has emerged as more details are released about an investigation into a troubled wastewater plant.