More than 36,000 nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants are set to walk off the job for 24 hours today, over deadlocked contract negotiations.

The government is set to repeal the oil and gas ban this week, after a significant 11th-hour change handing discretionary powers to two ministers.

A store on a landmark Dunedin site is getting a solar-powered upgrade. Placemakers Dunedin, in Burns St, is among 20 buildings across the ...

An Australian tourist was allegedly assaulted in his car while making a U-turn in Buckingham St, Arrowtown, on Friday. The 56-year-old victim ...

Kiwi Water Park co-owner and former Queenstown political aspirant Emily Rutherford has been discharged without conviction for her role in a ...

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the risk of nitrate poisoning in Gore, the price of milk products, and a ...

Pop star Ed Sheeran will play a second show in Christchurch due to high demand for tickets to his upcoming tour. Sheeran has already unveiled ...

Household electricity bills for Aurora Energy customers could increase by an average of about $10 a month next year, the Commerce Commission ...

Otago businessman Grant Cochrane was always going to return to farming, he just got side-tracked a little on the way. Business and rural ...

The election of Canterbury sharemilker Karl Dean to the national dairy chairman role for Federated Farmers will cause Bex Green to step up as ...

Japanese students got a close-up lesson of where fine wool in their school uniforms comes from during a visit to the Todhunter family’s ...

A photo of a Blue Mountain College head boy doing kapa haka during last year’s Matariki celebrations has been chosen as part of an ...