The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) says it has helped safeguard two children from further harm in the United States.

A landmark ruling in the Australian High Court has found planning authorities are required to consider the emissions caused ...

Armed Israeli settlers on Tuesday (all times local) beat an AFP photographer, leaving him requiring hospital treatment, as he ...

The hoiho/yellow eyed penguin could be extinct in less than a decade as a respiratory disease continues to wipe out a ...

Online safety organisation Netsafe says sextortion is at its highest ever level in Aotearoa, and the number of people falling ...

Jailhouse snitch Roberto Conchie Harris was convicted of perjury having made up evidence that Tamihere had killed the Swedes; ...

The physical search for a missing Queenstown woman remains paused, but is still active, police say. Erika Rodrigues Coelho, ...

Almost two dozen rubbish truck drivers in east and south Auckland have been dumped, with some offered the option to buy their own trucks and become contractors instead.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown has come out swinging against politicians on the election campaign trail, telling those in central ...

Death row inmate Christa Pike has woken up and is speaking almost a week after a botched execution attempt at a Tennessee ...

Analysis: Scott Barrett's two recent matches in the NPC - his first at any level in almost 12 months - may be enough to convince the All Blacks' selectors to give him a starting role in Saturday's ...

The croc family tree may be getting a new branch. Analyzing fossilized remains discovered in the same bedrock that built the ...