Sixty-five years ago John and Bev French spent the first night of their honeymoon at a hotel on Papanui Rd in Christchurch after stopping for a "feed of fish and chips". A young woman who assaulted ...

Principals and teacher unions are disappointed an Education Ministry error meant it failed to forecast teacher shortages for 2024 and 2025. Health New Zealand is scrambling to fix contracts that gave ...

Eighteen-year-old Daman Kumar will be able to stay in New Zealand, following an intervention from the associate immigration ...

A Ngāpuhi leader, long at the centre of controversy over his leadership of New Zealand’s largest iwi, has been sentenced to jail for indecent assault following a determined seven-year legal battle by ...

Israel has braced for the return of the bodies of infant Kfir Bibas and his four-year-old brother Ariel, the two youngest captives taken by Hamas in their October 7, 2023 attack. A joint ...

One person has died following a crash on the Lewis Pass (State Highway 7) late last night. Police said they were notified of ...

Police have been criticised for not laying criminal charges against an officer who admitted to beating his children with a belt.

A passenger on a Jetstar flight from Auckland to Dunedin said dozens of people were left without their bags after Jetstar off-loaded their luggage and did not tell them until they reached their ...

Cheap to feed, considerate of noise, tidy and "quite cute" — Dougal the donkey would be a welcome addition to any home. A teenager at the centre of a sexual assault trial has stressed she did not make ...

Hundreds if not thousands of people are applying for the same jobs in the wake of last year's public sector gutting, a former ...

The latest character in a popular tactical shooter video game has been portrayed as a NZ woman from Christchurch born on March 15, the day of the mosque terror attacks. Fire crews are continuing to ...