An Israeli-American hostage has been released from 19 months of captivity in Gaza during a brief pause in fighting and reunited with his family, but Israeli strikes soon resumed. Multiple chickens ...

Prime minister Christopher Luxon has accused critics of the government's pay equity shake-up of "scaremongering" and ...

The government is "testing children to death" with the announcement of a new maths test for the youngest children, says the ...

A Christchurch eye surgeon who attempted to murder his former business landlord has been granted parole and will be released from prison early next month. Pornography has been found on the work ...

Three patients have been transported to hospital in serious condition after a person was trapped in head-on crash in Dunedin ...

Jevon McSkimming has been on leave for four months following his suspension in December, pending a criminal investigation. The teenage boy who died after being stabbed at a Napier party at the weekend ...

The man killed in a single-vehicle crash near Cromwell in March has been named. He was Mitchell Douglas McLeary, 26, of Cromwell. He said the t-shirt was not gang related and just showed support for ...

The person at the centre of a new measles alert in Auckland is a crew member on a Fullers360 ferry, the company has confirmed. One person is dead and three have been injured after an ATV (all-terrain ...

Alerts have been issued after a new measles case was confirmed, with people in Auckland asked to check if they have been exposed. One person is dead and three have been injured after an ATV ...

A teenager has been caught with a knife and a fake gun while trying to enter an AFL match in Melbourne without a ticket. A teenager has died after a serious incident in Napier overnight.

A teenager has died after a serious incident in Napier overnight. It has been a year since an elderly couple were found dead on their four-hectare lifestyle property after a rogue ram entered their ...

The state of emergency on storm-hit Banks Peninsula will remain in place for at least another day, while the Christchurch City Council monitors a land slip in Akaroa. Cancer specialists and patients ...