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 ...

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 ...

Police are hunting a prisoner who escaped from a transport van in Taupō today, and are warning people not to approach him.

The Regulatory Standards Bill is "dangerous" and "alarm bells need to ring", critics of the proposed government legislation ...

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.

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