North East Valley Normal School pupil Ihaia Ford pulls a pukana while John McGlashan and Columba Colleges’ kapa haka group Te Tira Haere o te Hahi perform during Otago Polyfest yesterday.

An Aurora Australis display may once again grace NZ's night sky, and the best viewing is likely to be from southern locations.

Four more people have been charged in relation to the death of a Rotorua man, after 12 people were charged with his murder last week.

The search in Victoria for an accused double police killer may be hard to maintain without government support, a former detective says. 

The ACT Party is calling for New Zealand to pull out of the "broken" Paris climate accord as long as it insists on emissions targets that are "disconnected from science".

One of Afghanistan's worst quakes has killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2800, as rescuers struggle to reach remote areas and the Taliban asks the world for help.