A last-minute amendment to cut Auckland’s proposed rates increase from 7.9% to a less imposing 5.9% has been backed by a “significant number” of councillors.

An Auckland man launched into action as soon as he heard desperate cries for help to save a woman from a burning house. Mt Roskill resident Victor Manua pulled a paralysed elderly woman from her smoke ...

The Topp Twins’ management company confirmed that Topp died peacefully at her home on Saturday with her twin sister Lynda, brother Bruce, close friends and pets by her side. Dame Lynda Topp has shared ...

A former Mongrel Mob president has won a battle to save his gang pad from Crown confiscation. Bill Elers, the past head of the gang’s Mataura chapter in Southland, told the High Court last month that ...

Once one of New Zealand’s wealthiest political donors, some parties are now distancing themselves from Sir Rod Drury, as ...

Investors are waiting on financial results for market heavyweights to bring clarity as the earnings season kicks off this ...

Police are investigating after a man was stabbed in the back multiple times while attending a party in Tikipunga. Photo / NZ ...

Staff at a Chicago museum are baffled after their replica of KITT, the iconic black Pontiac Trans Am from the TV series Knight Rider, was issued with a speeding ticket. The museum shared a photo of ...

New and intriguing tracks picked by music writers at the NZ Listener magazine.

World-first research conducted for Qantas’ Project Sunrise program. Dr Svetlana Postnova, Neurophysics and Brain Dynamics ...

Three crew members had to be rescued off Northland’s west coast after the World War II navy vessel they were aboard lost ...

The kidnapping and manslaughter trial of alleged sect leader Kaixiao Liu and his wife (Lanyue Xiao) and parents (Xiuyun Li ...