The Cook Islands government has declared a dengue fever outbreak in Rarotonga. In a statement on Friday (Thursday in the Cook Islands), the ...

Three teenage girls are before the youth court in Auckland after a young woman was seriously assaulted on Thursday night.

This year’s Budget was pitched as prudent and responsible, not a lolly scramble. But from where we stand — alongside whānau struggling to ...

Organisers of the sold-out Bluff Oyster and Food Festival are confident there'll be plenty of oysters to go round. For Southland’s business community, particularly SMEs, the Budget presents a mix of ...

An increase in default KiwiSaver contribution rates announced in Thursday's Budget could leave KiwiSaver members more than $100,000 better off ...

Fire crews are battling a blaze in a commercial building in Cromwell where people have been reported as being trapped inside. A Fire and ...

A rare parliamentary law change has waived a potential $1.4m bill relating to environmental cleanup work that left a 2.2km stretch of scenic coast road at Kakanui unusable. The mum of an Oamaru 2-year ...

Two Israeli embassy staffers, a young couple about to be engaged, have been killed by a lone gunman in Washington, DC. An increase in default KiwiSaver contribution rates announced in Thursday's ...

An enraged Dunedin man threatened to rob and kill a bank call centre worker and ‘‘smash’’ their workplace up, police said. Mary Williams investigates the polluted Kaikorai Stream's journey past two ...

"It feels like a kid robbing his mum to pay for his mates" says library assistant Alex Cass, as she prepares for the government to reveal Budget 2025. “Delete all of your conversations and stop ...

A man who lost $2000 when he got one number wrong in a bank transfer has been told to drop his complaint.

Residents and officials have voiced their frustration with the "untenable" financial pressures expected to arise from the government’s Local Water Done Well programme at a meeting in Balclutha.