The outgoing providers of Dunedin’s needle exchange service is not ruling out seeking an injunction against the new contract holders, the Otago Daily Times understands.
An Israeli minister has hit back at New Zealand PM's comments that Benjamin Netanyahu has "lost the plot," accusing him of being unable to comprehend the challenges of facing Hamas.
A landmark Swedish church has begun its trip to a new home, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.
A group of homeless people living on church grounds in Christchurch will have nowhere to go if the city council moves against the impromptu encampment, advocates say.
A young Nelson hospitality worker convicted for possessing and distributing extremely graphic material told one internet user he wanted to be a “famous child sex offender”.
A NZ soldier with links to right-wing groups and gave restricted military info to someone he thought was a spy has been sentenced to two years in a military detention facility.
A flood warning stretches from the New South Wales coast to inland suburbs as residents are warned to prepare for the worst amid heavy rainfall forecasts.