The Central Otago District Council has updated heavy vehicle bridge postings across the district following a specialist ...

Police are hunting a prisoner who escaped from a transport van in Taupō today, and are warning people not to approach him.

Firefighters have finally started gaining control over two major wildfires in Los Angeles, as fierce winds that supercharged ...

The Regulatory Standards Bill is "dangerous" and "alarm bells need to ring", critics of the proposed government legislation ...

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed on December 29 stopped recording about four ...

Drones with thermal imaging equipment will survey a Coromandel Peninsula fireground on Monday night to identify where pockets ...

A Birdlings Flat resident has taken top honours in a global competition to find the world’s ugliest lawn. Police believe ...

Six years after completing the first leg of his solo circumnavigation of the world in a rowing boat, from Dunedin to Cape Horn in Chile, an adventurer has started the second leg of the journey. A ...

Scientists need help to work out why monarch butterfly populations in Australasia seem to be declining, writes Myron Zalucki. Norman Winter of Tribune News Services takes a look at a new flower ...

Police across the motu will observe a minute's silence in honour of the Nelson police officer killed on New Year's Day. The Regulatory Standards Bill is "dangerous" and "alarm bells need to ring", ...

The government has been accused of a "blatant disregard for transparency" as unanswered questions continue to mount while the ...

Scrub fires around the country are keeping fire crews busy today. The firefighters' union has serious concerns about the ...