The recent Relay for Life North Canterbury raised more than $100,000 for the Cancer Society.

It took nine years but Crusaders outside back Josh McKay has finally fulfilled one of his childhood dreams - earning his first senior rugby cap for Kaiapoi.

Racing Minister Grant Robertson is launching a review into greyhound racing, saying he is not satisfied with the industry's work on animal welfare.

A major public media merger is being mulled over by a government-appointed group. But is such a unification desirable - or even necessary?

Four members of the Sikh religious community were killed in the shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis that claimed the lives of eight workers, a community group and local leader say.

President Joe Biden says he will begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan on May 1, to end America's longest war.

A ship that blocked the Suez Canal for almost a week is being held in the waterway as authorities pursue a huge compensation claim against the ship's Japanese owner.