Luxury is not how Maree Pickett describes her island living, especially when she has to transport her rubbish by boat to the closest waste enclosure.

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about Donald Trump talking up his relationship with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, seven years on from their last meeting. Yesterday the US ...

Iran will shift to a "fully offensive" military posture because efforts to negotiate a permanent end to its war with the US have stalled, a senior Iranian official has told Reuters, as Washington ...

Firefighters have rescued people trapped on a roof after strong winds brought down powerlines in Christchurch.

FIFA has confirmed that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour has left the governing body, weeks after he publicly criticised President Gianni Infantino's plan to sell a stake in its tournament ...

Auckland Council has secured legal protection for 700 more hectares of regional parkland in Tāmaki Makaurau. The land, now protected by an Order in Council, includes a significan ...

Several Auckland Councillors have come out against plans to reinvestigate a second Waitemata Harbour crossing from Meola Reef in Point Chevalier. The government has commissioned a detailed business ...

Patients with endometriosis will be able to get a diagnosis and start treatment sooner under new clinical guidelines.

Two students have been killed in a high school shooting in the southern Philippines - one of them the gunman - and the situation was now under control, officials said, in the second such incident in ...

Labour leader Chris Hipkins has sarcastically applauded Chris Penk's "intestinal fortitude" for his role in a leadership challenge against Christopher Luxon, as Parliament debated the former ...

Virgin Australia says it is reviewing an incident which left a disability advocate feeling "humiliated" after he was removed from a plane before its departure.

Cryptocurrency is a story about how lines of code can be like cash. It's a pretty stupid story says actor Ben McKenzie. He's best known for playing teen heartthrob Ryan Atwood in The O.C. and ...