A MainPower employee got an electric shock while repairing network damage caused by copper thieves - a stark sign of the growing danger the thefts are creating in North Canterbury.

Netflix has partnered with an AI firm to recreate late actor Gene Wilder’s voice for a Willy Wonka themed reality competition series.

Five people have been arrested and more than a million cigarettes seized as part of the effort to crack down on the black market tobacco trade.

The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to impose restrictions on transgender student athletes, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho banning them from female sports teams.

"Rather than acting with honesty, courage, and integrity, you drove him to the hospital while stopping to plan your escape and create lies."

A group of people the size of the population of Christchurch is in hardship, but there are ways to turn it around, a group of social service charities says.

A New Zealand-born neo-Nazi has been sentenced in Melbourne for abusive behaviour emulating "Nazi thugs of 1930s Berlin".