Expanded weapon search powers will be put to the test as Melbourne police prepare for possible clashes between anti-immigration demonstrators and counter-protesters.
US President Donald Trump says a National Guard member has died after being shot in an ambush by an Afghan national - an attack he blamed on Biden-era immigration vetting failures.
Hong Kong fire authorities say they expect to wrap up operations after the city's worst fire in nearly 80 years tore through a massive apartment complex, killing at least 94 people.
He’s been called the Indiana Jones of microbiology. Canterbury University's Matthew Stott goes to the ends of the earth in his quest to study life in the planet’s most hostile environments.
Pedestrians were stunned when the driver of a car mounted the footpath and did donuts on the forecourt of Christchurch's busy central city bus interchange.
The assault of a youth coach and a dog biting a young touch rugby player come amid fears of escalating violence linked to the homeless camp at Dunedin’s Oval sports ground.
Port Otago and its property arm "being stolen away" from the ORC may be used to pay off other councils’ debt, its chairwoman says, but she's comfortable with proposed local body changes.