Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away ...

There's buoyancy and optimism in the tourism industry in spite of New Zealand's long slow slog when it comes to the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he will expand the offensive while Hamas says it will not accept an interim truce for ...

Long-serving Labour MP David Parker is giving his valedictory address to Parliament. Labour leader Chris Hipkins says the new ...

A Christchurch based-businessman and illegal tyre dumper has been banned from being a company director for life.

Five people have been hurt after a school bus crashed into a tree in South Auckland. Emergency services were called to the ...

Amid a nearly 80-year-old territorial dispute over Kashmir, India's offensive followed an attack by Islamist assailants that ...

A family violence support agency says police are undoing decades of hard work by not attending some domestic violence ...

Russia launched an intense drone and missile attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities overnight in Europe, killing a mother ...

Former rogue cop John Dewar can now be revealed as the Hamilton businessman who has been fighting theft and fraud charges.

The Pay Equity Amendment Bill has passed through all stages in Parliament, after being rushed through under urgency.

India, Pakistan and China all claim partial or complete ownership of the region, but how did that become the case?