A judge says `inflation of ego` has led to an investigator and process server being found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon -- an extendable baton he brought into a courthouse.Judge Gerard Lynch said he believed Shane Matthew... Read...

The country has experienced another 15 deaths of people with Covid-19 and 8435 new community cases, the Ministry of Health says. Read...

Retailers have had a quieter start to the year after the busy end to 2021. Read...

Otago Regional Council will resume winter grazing monitoring flights in the coming weeks. Read...

The country`s largest red meat company has said it will no longer supply offal to a meat plant at the Gloriavale christian community. Read...

Rangatahi across the Ōtara region are following in the foosteps of mountaineering pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary by climbing a career in creative technology.Hillary House Leadership Centre and the Ministry Of Education and Media... Read...

By Charlotte Cook of RNZ Climate change is being blamed for more than 40 little blue penguins/ kororā washing up dead over a week at a Far North Beach. Local resident Carol Parker found the lifeless bodies of the kororā... Read...

No one who watched Deborah James`s final interviews, after she announced via her Instagram feed that she was stopping active treatment for bowel cancer, can fail to have been moved by it. `I don`t want any other Deborahs to have to... Read...

More tributes have been paid to Dame Aroha Reriti-Crofts, former Maori Women`s Welfare League president and kapa haka advocate, on the final day of her tangi. Read...

Analysis - Despite New Zealanders` close connection with the oceans, very few will have heard of `temperate mesophotic ecosystems`. Even fewer will appreciate their importance for coastal fisheries, and possibly climate change mitigation. Read...