In a controversial move, unelected Hastings youth councillors have been given voting rights on committees, after the mayor ...

Central Otago is creating a strategy to shape its economic future with hopes it may ease the pressures from rapid growth.

Police have charged a man with murder after a woman's body was discovered in a burnt-out car. Jasmaine Corin Reihana, 35, was found dead inside the car on 9 September on Ripiro Beach, Dargaville.

In Focus on politics, RNZ's political editor Jo Moir examines the government's rocky relationship with its Cook Strait ...

The parents of a boy who died on a school trip to Abbey Caves say they trusted teachers to keep him safe. Whangarei Boys' High School student Karnin Petera drowned when the cave system flooded in May ...

Asia correspondent Erin Hale spoke to Lisa Owen about the world's longest-serving death row inmate being acquitted in Japan, China's Ministry of State Security taking to social media to air grievances ...

Dame Noeline Taurua is calling on the Silver Ferns to find their mongrel. A relatively new look New Zealand side will take to the court against England in Auckland on Sunday, the Roses fresh off an ...

Students and supporters in Auckland, New Plymouth and Christchurch swapped their books for picket signs as they joined the School Strike 4 climate protests today. They're calling for the government to ...

Central Otago is creating a strategy to shape its economic future with hopes it may ease the pressures from rapid growth. A recent report suggests more growth is on the horizon with the population ...