The paua shell sculpture in Riverton has been damaged and will have to be fixed.

The first calls came in just after 2pm on Valentines Day, seven years almost to the day of the devastating 2017 Port Hills fire, which started nearby.

Two teenagers living in rural Hawke's Bay are hitch-hiking to school after their bus route was canned.

A witness who called the police after a man was hit by multiple vehicles on Auckland's South Western motorway last week says the fact no one stopped is "disgusting".

Rising Queenstown runner Siena Mackley is headed for the bright lights of the United States.

Next time you want to have a courageous conversation at a meeting, how about ditching the proverbial mints and replacing them with something altogether more tasty?

Independent directors of Millennium and Copthorne Hotels have described a takeover bid by its majority shareholder CDL Hotels Holdings New Zealand Ltd as "too low" and "inadequate".

Westpac has bumped up its farmgate milk price forecast for this season by 30c to $10.30, citing resilience in world dairy prices and a lower New Zealand dollar.

Pāmu is aiming to increase its deer numbers in the South.

A series of livestock sales making way for blanket afforestation on a productive hill-country station in Southland is a shame, a local farmer says.

Another week, another bidding war for a shedding ram from Central Southland.

On a summer’s day 3395 years ago, a young woman in Denmark died and was interred under a tumulus, in a coffin hewed from a massive oak, wrapped in a blanket and an ox hide.

After a week of cloud-choked nights putting paid to any chance of astronomy, the forecast finally promised clear skies last Sunday.

Australia's women's soccer captain and Chelsea striker Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially abusing a British police officer after a dispute with a cab driver.

Worshippers gather around candles stuck to jars with honey to mark the day of Saint Haralampi, the Orthodox patron saint of beekeepers, in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria,&nbsp...

A teacher at a South Korean primary school has admitted to stabbing a seven-year-old girl who was found in cardiac arrest and later died in hospital, a police official said today.

You may recall last year I wrote about achieving my lifeguard award.