The re-vamped scheme has been plagued by concerns about late, inedible, repetitive or nutritionally lacking lunches this year ...

New Zealand's reimprisonment rate is high, with about 30 percent of first-time prisoners likely to return to prison. The ...

James O'Connor is in the Wallabies' selection frame and his experience could prove useful in a squad of relatively young ...

Jurors in the first trial couldn't reach an agreement on whether the protests carried an unreasonable risk to the public.

Vandals in four-wheel drives have mowed down 38 pōhutukawa trees on Napier's Marine Parade. The damage was done overnight on ...

A Land Search and Rescue team has joined the search for missing Masterton man John Rafferty, who was last seen on Sunday.

As part of a world-wide celebration marking the achievement of the first person to cycle around the world on a Penny Farthing ...

The prime minister says new pay equity legislation announced today could save the government "billions of dollars", just two ...

Labour Leader Chris Hipkins says there's no justification for Education Minister Erica Stanford to use her personal email ...

National MP Catherine Wedd, with the backing of leader Christopher Luxon, has put forward a members' bill which would follow ...

Unions are calling it "shameful", but Workplace Relations Minister Brooke Van Velden says it will "significantly reduce costs ...

Some early childhood teachers are warning an upcoming overhaul of the ECE sector will make centres unsafe and lower teaching ...