One person has died after a single-vehicle crash on Port Albert Road, Port Albert, this evening. Emergency services were called to the scene about 5.25pm. One person was located in critical condition, ...

The Building Amendment Bill makes a wide array of changes that aim to make building faster, cheaper and more efficient. This ...

Immigration New Zealand (INZ) had to repay infringement fines to more than 20 rogue employers because staff were not authorised to issue them. It could not issue new notices against the companies ...

The Alliance Party has expressed its strong concern at alleged grave misconduct found by inspectors in March at the inpatient ...

Power company Genesis is preparing to launch a petition calling for a ban on incandescent lightbulbs. A phase-out of the bulbs was proposed in 2008, but the next National government scrapped it.

National finance organiser Callum Francis said staff were losing perks like access to a waiver of the low-equity premium that is applied to home loans, when people have a smaller deposit, some account ...

Snow has forced the closure of state highways in Otago. In addition, State Highway 88 Sawyers Bay to Port Chalmers, between Station Road and Borlases Road, is closed due to flooding. The closure comes ...

Auckland Business Chamber says National's plan to open trade talks with seven new markets is a good move for Auckland businesses. "We've got members already trading into some of these countries, and ...

It was physical, a bloody battle befitting the start of the new Nations Championship competition. In the end the All Blacks hung on to win 34-32 at the One New Zealand Stadium in Christchurch, in ...

Lincoln University Tutor in Master of Science in Food Innovation, Dr Ruchita Kavle, said a small market, high production ...

A life-threatening typhoon is barrelling its way across the western Pacific with sustained wind speeds of more than 250km/h, with people in the area warned to prepare urgently. Typhoon Bavi is ...

World governing bodies like FIFA and the International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the hosts, are most vulnerable to moral and ethical criticism before sporting competition commences. At that point, ...