Firefighters have finally started gaining control over two major wildfires in Los Angeles, as fierce winds that supercharged ...

Mike Dickison has always had a soft spot for Banks Peninsula. Now the world’s first Wikipedian-at-large is determined to enhance the peninsula's profile on Wiki - and has been given $50,000 to do it.

The Regulatory Standards Bill is "dangerous" and "alarm bells need to ring", critics of the proposed government legislation ...

Police are hunting a prisoner who escaped from a transport van in Taupō today, and are warning people not to approach him.

Drones with thermal imaging equipment will survey a Coromandel Peninsula fireground on Monday night to identify where pockets ...

The Central Otago District Council has updated heavy vehicle bridge postings across the district following a specialist ...

A Birdlings Flat resident has taken top honours in a global competition to find the world’s ugliest lawn. Police believe ...

Six years after completing the first leg of his solo circumnavigation of the world in a rowing boat, from Dunedin to Cape Horn in Chile, an adventurer has started the second leg of the journey. A ...