Police say they know how a head-on two vehicle crash that left five people dead in Waikato on Tuesday afternoon happened but are still investigating why.
A disgruntled ratepayer who police believe may be behind a bomb scare that saw Whakatāne District Council offices evacuated and closed for the afternoon on Friday has appeared in court.
A Taranaki woman was alive, but likely unconscious when she burned to death crumpled beside an overturned bed and mattress tipped over and set on fire by her partner, a jury has been told.
Greta Pilkington is set to become the first New Zealand sailor to compete in the women's single-handed discipline at the Olympic Games in over a decade when she lines up in Marseille in early August.
Ellie Violet Bramley looks at the best outfits at the Cannes Film Festival, the looks that might trickle down, and styles that should stay on the riviera.
Experts have been working for almost two weeks to free Florence, a tunnel-boring machine wedged deep underground at Snowy 2.0, the hydro battery project's boss says.
A prosecutor says a hush money payment at the heart of former US President Donald Trump's criminal trial was an attempt to "hoodwink the American voter" during the 2016 election.
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including blinkered thinking, saving the trains, the private universes of Israel/Gaza, and a case of buyer's remorse.