The birth of their baby is one of two reasons a Wellington couple will always remember today's date.
An injured cruise ship crew member has been rescued by two New Zealand helicopters near remote Campbell Island south of New Zealand today.
The shooting of a Auckland woman with a crossbow yesterday has brought renewed calls for the weapons to be licensed like firearms.
A blacklisted fishing boat has been spotted in the Southern Ocean by an air force surveillance aircraft, Foreign Minister Murray McCully said today.
Over-enthusiastic hairspraying by budding ballerinas caused a mass evacuation at the Regent Theatre at Palmerston North.
A bus accident in Tibet killed 18 people, the Chinese government said on Monday.
A call for prepaid cellphone customers to be registered to stop criminals using them has been labelled an unnecessary intrusion into people's lives.
Falling roofs, fire and loss of electricity are just some things Coromandel residents might have to face in the event of a Mount Ruapehu eruption.
Finance Minister Michael Cullen has used the release of figures showing 827,000 people are now KiwiSaver members to attack National's plans to "gut" the scheme.
A woman told today how one of the trio accused of murdering Korean tourist Jae Hyeon Kim admitted to her strangling him before chopping off his head with a spade.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) had to pay $400 to a Beijing nightclub after an athlete shattered a glass dance floor while celebrating the team's medal haul.
National says it has made a decision on the future of the Families Commission should it win this year's election.
Shortfalls between subsidies provided to GPs for child immunisations and the actual cost of delivering the service is likely to be stifling efforts to improve immunisation rates, a new report suggests.
Thailand's prime minister declared an emergency in Bangkok today, empowering the military to restore order after overnight clashes between government opponents and supporters left one person dead and dozens injured.
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People experiencing mental illness will suffer more from the introduction of Taser stun guns into frontline policing, says the Mental Health Foundation.
Naming and shaming child sex offenders who are released into the community risks creating further outcasts, and is not the answer, says a legal ethics expert.