Donald Trump's former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors the Republican presidential candidate personally approved a hush money payment to bury a porn star's story of a sexual encounter.
Some first year University of Canterbury students are so famished they are resorting to buying takeaways after meals, despite paying annual residence hall fees of about $20,000.
Ngāti Kahu has finished drafting a letter to King Charles III calling on him to stop what they say is a violent attack on Te Tiriti O Waitangi, a Māori academic and iwi chairperson says.
David McBride will appeal his nearly six-year prison term after he was sentenced for leaking classified documents that revealed alleged Australian war crimes.
Up to 200 production staff could be out of jobs, as the 2024 season of renovation show The Block NZ is axed and the North Shore property remains a building site.
Police are searching for a man after a firearms incident in the Christchurch suburb of Addington that forced a school to be locked down and a person taken to hospital.
Police will establish a national gang unit, supported by 'district gang disruption teams', to target crime, harm and intimidation caused by patched members.
Army crews in Baltimore have set off controlled explosions to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of a massive container ship that toppled the span in March.
A software glitch led to an employee being overpaid $9000 in wages by a family-owned Christchurch company - but the worker quit just as the agreed repayment scheme kicked in.