A medical expert has told a court the baby at the centre of a high-profile child-abuse case did not have bone fragility. A ...

Ashburton Mayor Neil Brown says the town's second bridge "is going to happen if there is a lizard there or not". A tour bus carrying about 50 people rolled over when the driver lost control on a ...

Nine-year-old Nahima Bibi wants to be a doctor, but is one of nearly 500,000 Rohingya children who can't go to school. Auckland DJ duo the Katayanagi Twins have reportedly been denied entry into the ...

The failure of global leadership in response to the Gaza war could precipitate a ‘‘descent into the law of the jungle’’ if NZ and like-minded countries don't step into the gap, Prof Robert Patman ...

Alcohol lobbyists pushed health officials not to raise taxes, curb supply or cut industry sponsorship of sport - despite those measures being endorsed by the WHO as among the most effective ways to ...

A Christchurch school's almost 70-year-old repurposed buildings are doing their best to keep the bitter cold out. But signs of water damage are visible in one classroom, while parts of a wall are ...