The government says its emergency housing target has been reached five years early. But the whereabouts of 20 percent of those leaving emergency housing is still unknown. Last year, as one of its ...

The ACT leader has used his first major speech of the year says the country was at a tipping point between "two invisible tribes", in his first major speech of the day.

A vehicle believed to have been used in an armed robbery at a Japanese Restaurant has been found, police say. Officers were called to Tokyo Bay in Takapuna on Sunday night to reports of armed ...

Christchurch's CBD will be filled with some of the world's best street performers from Friday, as the World Buskers Festival gets underway.

The developer of what was set to be New Zealand's tallest residential building did not want the media around during a meeting updating Auckland Council on the status of the stalled luxury skyscraper.

Celebrations for the Lunar New Year are about to kick off with a bang in Auckland as Asian communities welcome the Year of ...

The four-day event will transition to a free-ticketed format for the first time, offering free public transport to and from the festival.

Duncan Hann used to actually suffer from tinnitus - a persistent ringing in the ears - while playing in bands, which eventually led to a master's thesis in tinnitus.

Mitre 10 is set to take over the location of a central Wellington Warehouse outlet when the red shed is vacated this year.

Police are searching for the vandals who removed the heads from two statues of Australian prime ministers and damaged 18 others in Ballarat early on Thursday morning.

An innocent bystander gave gang member Kevin Grey a friendly nod, moments later he and his partner were viciously attacked.

Friday's Rātana celebrations will be a chance for the prime minister to front up to Māori, a Māori leader says. Followers of the Rātana Church, called mōrehu, gather at the small settlement south of ...