One person died and dozens fell ill from E. coli infections linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers in 10 US states, ...

A 19-year-old University of Otago student may have been psychotic from drug use when he disappeared from a music festival in ...

Rewilding is growing in popularity. Maureen Howard and Bruce Munro visit the largest piece of regenerating forest on Otago Peninsula. It was the best of times, and it was undoubtedly the epoch of ...

A hedge fire near Rangiora knocked out power to more than 100 homes in North Canterbury this afternoon. A Northland high school was put into lockdown for an hour after fighting broke out and parents ...

After almost 50 years of dancing into work at Dunedin hospitals, Nele Tili is hanging up her apron. The Otago Regional Council will not vote today on tougher new rules for the environment after an ...

An Air New Zealand flight was diverted on its way to Auckland this morning because of a "disruptive" passenger. The government has pulled funding from New Zealand;s flagship research centre into ...

The government has pulled funding from New Zealand;s flagship research centre into violent extremism. Police investigating concerns regarding burials at an Auckland cemetery.

Warning: graphic content. The former long-time chief executive of US fashion giant Abercrombie & Fitch has been charged with sex trafficking and prostitution involving dozens of men.

The late Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al Fayed sexually abused female staff at his London department store Harrods, lawyers for alleged victims said on Friday.