Political parties cannot agree on a social media ban, but more than half of New Zealanders support it for children under 16.

Two Christchurch high school students have urged city councillors to improve safety at the city's bus interchange. Some ...

Portuguese and German police have launched joint searches for new evidence related to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

A driver found himself crawling out of his flipped car after hitting some loose gravel on a rural Dunedin road. A ...

A "deep-seated and unhinged" desire to bring down big tobacco via sky-high taxes has created a thriving black market in Australia, an expert says.

The government’s war on road cones is "just fuel thrown on the fire" for road workers already suffering regular abuse, a Dunedin traffic ...

A revenge thriller by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, barred from filmmaking for 15 years by the government in Tehran, has won the Palme d'Or top prize at Cannes. As the stunts get bigger and better, ...

At least 24 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip, local health authorities say. An Australian woman accused of murdering ...

The prime minister has dismissed international climate scientists as "worthies" for criticising the government's approach to methane. An Australian woman accused of murdering three of her estranged ...

More 90,000 humans - and tens of thousands of animals - have signed a petition in support of a ban on the public sale of fireworks. The ...

Providing a space for Samoans living in Dunedin to connect with their homeland is the goal for the community when celebrating Samoan ...

Nationalist opposition candidate Karol Nawrocki narrowly won Poland's presidential election, results showed on Monday, ...