As Sid and Jan Dyer celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary this week, they recalled driving to the ceremony and noticing a huge cloud looming ominously in the sky.

A month after Steven Gardiner was assaulted, he became so frustrated at the police progress on his case that he decided to take matters into his own hands.

Police have made further arrests in attempts to dismantle an international organised crime syndicate smuggling Class A drugs through Auckland Airport.

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.

A Dunedin woman abused staff and kicked in two sliding doors during an alleged drug and alcohol-fuelled rampage through a holiday park reception.