Fire and Emergency will be relying on volunteer crews to fight fires in the main centres on Boxing Day between midday and 1pm, as its paid staff go on strike.

King Charles delivered a message about journeying into the past to find values of compassion and reconciliation in his Christmas Day address.

Four-year-old Evie Coutts is chuffed with the new bike and helmet she got for Christmas.

Photo by Izzy Polson

A Dunedin teenager driving almost double the speed limit on a city road fled police and was later busted unlawfully possessing ammunition, police say.

Torrential rains have drenched Southern ‌California, unleashing widespread flash flooding as authorities urged motorists to ⁠stay off roads and residents ⁠living downslope of wildfire-scarred...