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.

A Dunedin-based fire command unit lost power and had to ‘‘coast’’ ahead of firefighters striking today for better pay and equipment.