National has kept its tax cut promise in the coalition govt's debut Budget, laying out a relief package largely in line with the 'Back Pocket Boost' it campaigned on during the election.
Families in a village in Papua New Guinea were sleeping when a "mountain" of rubble buried them alive in a landslide, a UN rescue worker at the disaster site said.
"I’m not being creepy or a paedo," a Dunedin rest home manager insisted to a student nurse he later asked to provide him with a picture of her face so he could use it as reference for a sex robot.
A Ministry of Education official has admitted the alternative model for the Government's free school lunch programme is unlikely to be as nutritious as the previous programme, RNZ understands.
The man behind a far-right media platform who claimed he was wrongfully arrested outside court during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic has had a court case against the police dismissed.
South Africans have voted in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, amid high turnout and with opinion polls suggesting the ANC may lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.
Compulsory Shakespeare and grammar lessons will feature in a new-look secondary English curriculum that ranges from contemporary NZ authors to Chaucer and Beowulf.
Jurors in Donald Trump's hush money trial have finished their first day of deliberations without reaching a verdict that would decide the fate of the only US president to be charged with a crime.
Hundreds of people have marched from Queens Garden to the Octagon in Dunedin as part of nationwide protests against the government's policies on Māori.