Construction services company Aquaheat has announced there will be 30 redundancies in Wellington as a result of the downturn in construction work in the capital.
A sentence of home detention handed down to a comedian for indecently assaulting his 4-year-old daughter was excessive because it would cost him his career, his lawyer has told a court.
The police dive squad has arrived in Invercargill and will this afternoon travel to Milford Sound in preparation for a sonar search of the stricken fishing boat, Governor, and her two missing crewmen.
The Court of Appeal has reserved its decision on whether Kim Dotcom will receive disclosure from the United States government in their case against him.
The great-great-great-granddaughter of the man who discovered the Ross Sea says the New Zealand Government is destroying her legacy by failing to protect one of the last intact marine ecosystem in the world.
The Government has done nothing to stop a "lost generation" of youths from killing themselves by sniffing butane-based solvents, the Chief Coroner says in a critical report released today.
Taxpayers forked out nearly $170,000 to send five police liaison officers, with no constabulary powers, to the Olympic Games in London.
A man died after his surgeon cut directly into his heart, a coroner has found.
Addiction researchers are concerned that a study of gambling habits in Pacific families reveal children as young as nine are betting with money.
Middle-aged women who motivate themselves to eat healthily have a lower body mass index than those who do so in order to keep others happy, new University of Otago research suggests.
KiwiRail is planning to close the Gisborne to Napier rail line, Gisborne-based Labour MP Moana Mackey says.
Stewart Murray Wilson will continue to be have his movements monitored by two minders after the Parole Board declined to change that release condition.
Police are still looking for the person who punched a young referee in the face when a schoolboy rugby match turned ugly at the weekend.
A pedestrian has been hit by a bus in central Wellington this morning, the 14th such incident in the capital since bus lanes were introduced two years ago.
Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is more powerful than Harry Potter author JK Rowling but not Lady Gaga, according the Forbes Magazines's annual ranking of the world's 100 most powerful women.
A police dog took down a man swinging a samurai sword at passing traffic in Upper Hutt early yesterday.
A legal blunder has put an end to a father's battle to be compensated after his daughter developed cerebral palsy due to complications when she was born 11 years ago.
Scientists say there is still a 50/50 chance that Mount Tongariro could erupt - and it could be at any time.
New Plymouth police say this morning will be the last chance for some days that they will have clear weather to search for three people who have been missing off the coastline since Wednesday.
Legal action is being taken against the Royal Commission into the Pike River explosions to force it to hear further evidence into the tragedy.
