Yesterday`s brief power emergency is a good reminder for people to be prepared for power cuts, a consumer advocacy organisation says. Read...

Today`s Matariki celebrations signal the maturing of Aotearoa, Sir Pou Temara has said at a hautapu ceremony this morning. Read...

The sentencing of four Bangladeshi nationals implicated in human trafficking in Vanuatu was handed down this week, after four years of a legal battle. Read...

Brazilian national and recreational fisherman Felipe Fiuza Zanelatto speaks with some disbelief at landing one of the biggest snapper ever caught on Hawke`s Bay and Gisborne coast – in the dark and using a drone.When it hooked... Read...

An immigration adviser has been censured, fined and temporarily banned from getting another licence after `deliberately deceiving` an overstayer and her family into thinking her visa application was in hand.Christopher Mark McCarthy... Read...

The latest iteration of Amazon`s Alexa voice assistant could sound eerily familiar. Read...

Ukraine and Moldova have both been granted EU candidate status, European Council president Charles Michel has announced. Read...

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has thanked the country`s indigenous peoples for gifting the `first authentically Māori public holiday` saying it is one that `unites us under the stars of Aotearoa`. Te Rā Aro ki a Matariki,... Read...

A man has been rescued and taken to hospital following a water incident in Northland. The St John`s ambulance arrived at the Whangārei Marina at 9.30am today to find an elderly man face up and unconscious in the water. ... Read...

A 41-year-old man will appear in court today facing charges of assault and wounding with intent over an incident on Auckland`s North Shore yesterday. Read...