New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon says Australia is his country's closest friend in the world, and doesn't mind if Australia nominates another nation as theirs.
Sudden changes to support for disabled people are not a funding cut, the ministry says. Advocates and families who rely on the funding disagree and say the changes put their children at...
Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick has failed in her attempt to get Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to commit to resigning if his moves to threaten evictions for unruly Kāinga Ora tenants lead...
A prolific violent offender who humiliated, starved, stabbed, strangled and raped his Wiri Prison cellmate during seven months of torture has been ordered to serve an indefinite sentence.
A cache of rare artworks with South Island connections will soon be up for sale, with pieces by Sir Grahame Sydney, Bill Sutton, Ralph Hotere and Rita Angus, set to fetch...
Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters is doubling down on his comments likening Te Pāti Māori statements to Nazi Germany - and is promising to say more on the subject later today.
Dominique Vallette’s ambitious goal of tracking down the Cantabrians who nursed her back to health after she suffered spinal injuries in a car accident in 1972 has been fulfilled.
A 41-year-old project manager who died on a worksite after a metal gate fell on him has been named as his body has been returned to his home in the UK.
A moving company is allegedly refusing to return nearly $50,000 that was accidentally paid into its bank account - and it won’t disclose where it’s keeping the money either.
Christopher Luxon says he intends to speak with Winston Peters, whose speech over the weekend compared co-governance with Nazi Germany's race-based theories.
Evicting more people from Kāinga Ora homes shows the government is ignorant to the consequences of poverty, the Greens say, but the Housing Minister says state housing is a privilege that can be...
Air New Zealand has checked pilot seats on its Boeing 787 Dreamliners after a flight deck mishap may have caused a Latam aircraft to plunge without warning a week ago.