Auckland police say they have caught three men with $2700 of shoplifted loot, after a sticky-fingered Boxing Day spree.

People are being warned away from the water at a popular Rotorua lake because of a potentially toxic algal bloom.

Breakers point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright has been charged with grabbing, pushing or mishandling a game official in ...

Opie Bosson, one of the greatest jockeys New Zealand has produced, has today announced his retirement from riding. Bosson, 44 ...

Several vehicles have been damaged, and one passenger injured on an Interislander ferry crossing that left Wellington this ...

Smoke from a large scrub fire has closed a busy road on Auckland’s North Shore. Firefighters are battling the growing blaze ...

A person has been critically injured after a large brawl broke out in Ngāruawāhia. A police spokesperson said two locations ...

Walliams, who is in Auckland for his An Audience with David Walliams tour, sneaked into the Newstalk ZB studio on Friday ...

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown is kicking up a stink after the city’s latest pool, affectionately known as “Browny’s Pool”, was ...

A helicopter is combing choppy waters at Ōhope in search of a man who fled from police and swam away on Christmas Day.

Strong winds in Whanganui cut power to thousands and temporarily closed the Cobham Bridge early on Friday. The winds brought ...

Out-of-control bushfires in Victoria’s west are now estimated to have reached “the size of Singapore” as more residents are ...