`Saturday Night Live` player Beck Bennett announced his departure from the show on Monday, leaving behind his his impressions of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Vice President Mike Pence. Read...

People using the Rotorua lakes are being asked to check their boats and gear are clean with trout fishing season getting underway. Read...

Australia and Nauru have re-committed to maintain the detention of asylum seekers and refugees on the island. Read...

Officials will no longer have the power to enter marae without a warrant under the government`s Water Services Bill. Read...

A pod of orca enjoyed a day of surfing and eating in Mount Maunganui, to the delight of locals.Tauranga photographer Erin Armstrong has dreamed of photographing orca swimming in the surf for years.On Sunday, that dream came true... Read...

Two people have been seriously injured during an altercation in South Auckland this afternoon. Police were called to the Great South Rd address in Ōtāhuhu around 2pm.Three people suffered injuries, including two who... Read...

State Highway 10 has been closed in the Far North following a serious accident near Awanui. The highway is closed between Church Rd and Kumi Rd with traffic advised to avoid the area.A diversion is possible via Church Rd, which... Read...

Students working on some of New Zealand`s most important `blue sky` research projects are having to support themselves with second jobs – prompting more than 700 scientists to call for a funding boost. The Marsden Fund, managed... Read...

Manslaughter trial witness describes seeing defendant `just slamming him around with fists` Read...

West Coaster Anthony John Watson, 28, died in the crash, which happened about 5pm on Sunday on Mossburn-Five Rivers Rd. Read...