Seven people are being evacuated from a property following surface flooding on State Highway 46, near Lake Rotoaira, south of Lake Taupo.The road is closed between Mcdonnells Redoubt Rd and Otukou Rd.Police were asking motorist...

Dunedin police are appealing to the public for help to find a missing 15-year-old girl.Jaaleigh Peek was reported missing from Palmerston by her family on Monday and police said they have concerns for her wellbeing.Miss Peek is...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's baby news has led to the birth of an online social movement. #knitforJacinda brings together Kiwis who, inspired by Ardern's baby news, have come together to knit clothes for those in need.It all...

The recruitment company that helped hire the disgraced Waikato District Health Board chief executive was paid $106,000 for their work.Recruitment company Sheffield interviewed, tested and checked references of chief executive candidates...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she will replace National's targets for social outcomes with Labour's own rather than abandon targets altogether.Ardern announced on Monday that Labour would be scrapping the "Better Public Service"...

The father of a mentally unwell man who died in the care of Waikato Hospital is among those relieved the Government is taking action to improve mental health services in New Zealand.Dave Macpherson, whose son Nicky Stevens was found...

This morning actor Lee Rene Naufahu was sentenced to one year of home detention for indecently assaulting six women.The offending took place between 2011 to 2013 in Naufahu's Auckland acting classes.He initially denied any wrongdoing...

Legendary American singer/songwriter Neil Diamond has cancelled all upcoming concert dates - including a sold-out gig at Mission Estate.The announcement, made on the singer's official website today, comes after 76-year-old Mr Diamond...

A Sudanese refugee stuck on Manus Island since 2013 has a message for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern: "Just keep going". Ardern, who has been criticised for saying New Zealand would take 150 Manus Island refugees late last year,...

Wednesday may be the first time a pregnant Prime Minister has ever spoken at Ratana Pa, in the first big event of the 2018 political year.Political parties have come to the pa each January to pay their respects to Māori and...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong says a court has granted him bail so he can appeal a second prison sentence related to 2014's "Umbrella Movement" protests.The 21-year-old Wong on Tuesday tweeted, "Hello...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden has summoned China's ambassador in the Scandinavian country over reports that Hong Kong bookseller Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen, has been taken away by Chinese authorities again after being released...

SYDNEY (AP) — Refugee advocates say a group of 40 refugees denied entry to Australia has left an immigration camp on Papua New Guinea bound for resettlement in the United States.Refugee Action Coalition spokesman Ian Rintoul said...

PARIS (AP) — French retailer Carrefour says it will invest 2.8 billion euros ($3.4 billion) over the next five years in online shopping as part of a plan aimed at boosting its growth that also will result in 2,400 job cuts.Europe's...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says that the death toll from the Taliban attack over the weekend on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel has risen to 22, including 14 foreigners and eight Afghans.Najib Danish, spokesman...

CAIRO (AP) — A senior Muslim Brotherhood leader has written an open letter from exile to a retired Egyptian army general seeking to run for president, listing the outlawed group's conditions for supporting his candidacy.Youssef...

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a student has been killed by a fellow pupil at a school in western Germany.Dortmund police said the incident happened Tuesday morning at a school in the nearby town of Luenen.Police said a minor has been...

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The Latest on the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland (all times local):9:55 a.m.Stock markets around the world are flying high amid a synchronized global upturn but a leading U.S. investor is...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean Olympic organizers say it's too late to include a North Korean taekwondo performance in the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Games, but it might still occur at the Olympic Stadium on...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Faeroese member of the Danish Parliament who plans to meet Catalan ex-leader Carles Puigdemont says that listening to him is the best way to understand what is going on in Spain's Catalonia region.Magni...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean Olympic organizers say it's too late to include a North Korean taekwondo performance in the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Games, but it might still occur at the Olympic Stadium on...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — There'll be a British man in the Australian Open semifinals for the seventh time in nine years. This time it'll be Kyle Edmund, not Andy Murray.Edmund upset No. 3-ranked Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 3-6, 6-3,...

MOSCOW (AP) — Speedskater Viktor Ahn, a six-time Olympic gold medalist, is among several top Russian athletes barred from the upcoming Pyeongchang Games amid the country's ongoing doping scandal, the Russian Olympic Committee said...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — It took something unique to make tennis the center of sports attention in South Korea, where the Winter Olympics are only weeks away from opening.Hyeon Chung's win over six-time Australian Open champion...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia says 6-time Olympic speed skating champion Viktor Ahn among top Russians barred from Pyeongchang Games.

BERLIN (AP) — Ex-Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda is buying back bankrupt Austrian airline Niki, which he founded 15 years ago before selling his stake in 2011.The Austria Press Agency reported Tuesday that the 68-year-old's company...

Growing up as the oldest of six children, Tony Granato always seemed to be in charge.If that meant telling brothers Don and Robby to help their younger siblings put on their shoes or find their jackets, that's what he did.A decade...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jason Kidd helped make the Bucks relevant again. Someone else will have to help them become champions.Despite mentoring a young, athletic core led by All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kidd was fired by Milwaukee general...

Five years ago, he lost his older brother after a snowmobile crash at the Winter X Games.A year ago, he broke his back while attempting a double backflip in Aspen, Colorado, and spent months relearning to walk.This sport has taken...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The questions hovered around Virginia to start the season.Have the Cavaliers seen their best Final Four chances under Tony Bennett pass them by?Can they overcome the loss of so much veteran talent in recent...

Trade Me should ban the commercial sale of pets altogether, the co-founder of an animal welfare group says.

Eric Sorensen could never be accused of having a cosseted, or dull, life.

Cheap Christchurch rentals are drawing university students away from Wellington, the University of Canterbury (UC) has claimed to the chagrin of Victoria University.

Police are looking for Dunedin man Trevor Pont, who has missing since Tuesday morning.

Police have named the motorcyclist killed in a crash near TaupÅ� on Saturday. 

People have been evacuated from a house in the central North Island due to flooding. 

One person has moderate injuries after their car collided with a tree in Christchurch.

A man and a woman have been arrested following an alleged armed robbery in Palmerston North.

Christchurch's drinking water should be temporarily chlorinated after it was found the city's wells may be in danger of contamination, Canterbury's public health boss recommended.

A fresh round of intelligence leaks from across the ditch have claimed new boat arrivals of asylum seekers, and lay the blame at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's feet.  

Niels Hoegel's deadly drugs of choice were ajmaline, lidocaine and calcium chloride - medications that he would administer to send his patients into arrhythmia, or force their blood pressure to crash to dangerously low levels.

A powerful earthquake has hit 10km deep and 281km south east of Alaska. A tsunami warning is in effect.

In late July, the White House had just finished an official policy review on transgender individuals serving in the military and US President Donald Trump and his then-chief of staff, Reince Priebus, had agreed to meet in the Oval Office to discuss the four options awaiting the president in a decision memo.

The family of a wealthy 93-year-old Australian woman will again be gifted more than NZ$120,000 for birthdays and Christmas this year in the wake of a tribunal hearing.

A volcanic eruption has injured at least nine people at a ski resort in central Japan, officials said.

In a crisis that has shocked the world with its scale, it is the number of children struggling to exist within that crisis that is truly staggering.

The White House says US President Donald Trump has signed a bill reopening the government, ending a 69-hour display of partisan dysfunction after Democrats reluctantly voted to temporarily pay for resumed operations.

An Australian motorist has suffered serious head injuries after the bucket of an excavator fell off the back of a truck and hit her sports car, causing it to flip.

A restaurant in Venice allegedly charged four tourists $1800 for a meal, sparking outrage and prompting the city's mayor to call for an investigation.

An Australian woman is threatening legal action after her five-year-old daughter was left alone and trapped on a school bus.

An incident-packed fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race has served as a timely reminder to Peter Burling on the dangers of the gruelling round the world race.

Cricket Australia (CA) has confirmed New Zealand is in the running to play the coveted Boxing Day test in Melbourne late next year, pending International Cricket Council approval.

Monday broke peacefully at sun-drenched Torrey Pines, with soft breezes drifting in off the Pacific Ocean and a sense of calm floating over this 36-hole public golf resort.

Kyle Edmund has become the first British man not named Andy Murray to reach the Australian Open semifinals in four decades.

Queenstown's Ben McLachlan will contest the semifinals of the men's doubles event at the Australian Open.

Melbourne Stars batsman Kevin Pietersen has been ruled out of what should have been his penultimate Big Bash League game, against the Sydney Sixers, with back soreness.

Swansea City defender Federico Fernandez may have enjoyed the winning goal in his side's 1-0 victory over Liverpool with too much vigour after suffering a suspected broken nose when celebrating Alfie Mawson's 40th-minute strike at the Liberty Stadium on Monday (Tuesday NZT).

An Australian Rules footballer has been jailed for 12 months for kicking an opponent in the head, reports Nine News Gold Coast.

Kiwi squash pro Joelle King pushed eight-time world champion Nicol David hard before bowing out of the second round in her latest tournament.

DeMarcus Cousins became the first NBA player since Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1972 to have as many as 40 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists in an NBA game on Tuesday (NZT).