China’s central government introduced a childcare subsidy on July 28 that will provide families with 3,000 yuan (around £312) a year for each child under the age of three. The announcement came days ...

Much is due to Briscoes homeware sales, rather than of Rebel Sport gear.

BURIAL PLOT OF IRISH RAILROAD WORKERS: At this site, known as Duffy’s Cut, fifty-seven Irish immigrant railroad workers from ...

They'll scrap NCEA, to make English and maths compulsory in year 11, with a standard benchmark test. Years 12 and 13 will be replaced with certificates the Minister suggests will be internationally ...

Fire and Emergency say multiple vehicles responded to a well involved blaze on Candy Crescent in Kaiapoi at 2am. The occupants were waiting outside and one patient transported to Christchurch Hospital ...

The Full House actor has stepped in to play King Herod in the live production at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles over the weekend after the Frozen star pulled out with COVID-19, and he has hailed ...

Senior Sergeant Mark Kirkwood says the area's riddled with mine shafts, cliffs, steep drop-offs, trenches, and West Coast bush. A dog team and searchers will try another possible area tomorrow. 04 Aug ...

It was created in May for medically discharged patients, who still require lower-level help from places like an aged-care facility - who have nowhere appropriate to go. Some stay for weeks, looked ...

The 78-year-old singer got clean back in 1990s after a long battle with substance abuse and he's now marked three and a half decades since he turned his life around with Elton sharing a picture of the ...

On July 18 three males assaulted a person at a Pouto Road address - then stole a gold Toyota Landcruiser. Detective Constable Wendy McDermott says it was later found on fire near Kaikohe, on Ngapipito ...

The Wednesday star, 22, is convinced many people "don't talk to each other in person" anymore and she thinks it has eroded their sense of community - insisting she likes the idea of life in the 1970s ...

The Memento star shot to fame on Australian soap opera Neighbours in the mid-1980s and after leaving the show he followed in the footsteps of his former co-stars Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan by ...