Queen Elizabeth pressed almost 30 years ago for her son Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor to be made a govt trade envoy, and there is no evidence of ...

A pair of critically endangered Christchurch parakeets have earned their title of "super parents" of the bird world after bringing 55 chicks ...

Finding a 2.5m sunfish washed up on the shore at Lake Ellesmere was an "unbelievable experience" for two Canterbury fishermen.

Ponds and creeks started to dry up at the Pegasus golf course this week, causing more stress for residents already upset about the property ...

The principal of a West Coast secondary school says there are too many barriers to hiring teachers who were trained or born overseas.

The shareholders of a company running a long-standing restaurant-bar in the Octagon ploughed significant amounts into the venture before going ...

An independent analysis of police breath testing data found more than 42,000 "irregular" breath tests — 12,000 more than ...

Transgender people in Britain can be excluded from single-sex spaces such as public toilets and hospital wards when this is necessary to ...

An Auckland man strangled his partner in her home before going outside for a cigarette. When he returned, she was dead. Hao Feng had been charged with murde ...

A man has admitted stealing valuable Pokemon cards from a South Island store he worked at leaving the owner feeling "absolutely betrayed".

Warnings of out-of-control ‘‘debt monsters’’ did not stop Dunedin city councillors from potentially opening the way to more ...

The construction of Ashburton’s $144m second bridge officially starts on Friday and is expected to be completed by the end of next year.