The Finance Minister has joined international counterparts in calling for a return to free and safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz.

An Auckland project manager has been sentenced to three months community detention for defrauding nearly $30,000 through Covid schemes.

A 14-year-old student shot at least nine people dead including eight of his fellow pupils and wounded 13 others at a middle school in southeastern Turkey, officials say, in the country's...

In January 2017 Irish yachtsman Enda O'Coineen was towed into Port Chalmers after his yacht the 'Kilcullen Voyager' lost its mast during the solo Vendee Globe Round-the-World yacht race.

Snow has fallen on the Crown Range Road and the Milford Road as a cold blast brings strong winds to parts of the South, and there is more heavy rain on the way. MetService has issued a strong wind...