A general practitioner who had a sexual relationship with a patient for almost a year has been found…

Three News will replace its weather presenter Mike Hall with veteran journalist Ingrid Hipkiss at the end of the month. After…

1. Colin Hogg: Plenty of hot air over weather (38 comments)

A former bouncer from Queenstown who posted footage of English rugby player Mike Tindall being kissed by an old flame on…

A man has died in hospital after a highway crash near Greymouth. Luke Daniel Wilson, 30, was driving south on the Harihari…

A car has smashed through the window of a retail store in Rotorua. Witnesses say a white Mazda with…

One passenger was injured this morning when a Wellington train hit a concrete safety block.

A giraffe is expected to surprise a few gawking motorists today. Nakuru, a 15-month-old giraffe, is being driven from Auckland…

1. photos Photos: Auckland zoo's baby giraffe debuts (4 photos)

A trial continues today for a man who allegedly bashed Christchurch teenager Hayden Miles to death before cutting him into…

Emergency services, the University of Otago and the Otago University Students' Association (OUSA) have hailed Dunedin's…

1. Judge slams drinking culture

A Korean woman visiting Queenstown was allegedly racially abused and robbed by members of a stag party…

Auckland regional park rangers' morale has been rocked by changes brought in by the Super City's central-style bureaucracy…

The man accused of breaching a suppression order by posting a video online of Jesse Ryder's two alleged attackers says he…

1. video Ryder assault accused appear in court (1:00)

A severe weather watch is in place for the top of the North Island with a heavy rain system from the north Tasman Sea reaching…

1. Kauri icons threatened by inaction

The fire that gutted two flats in Palmerston North this morning is being treated as suspicious. Fire crews were called…

They've been found guilty. Should they receive the maximum sentence for their crime? Or should they…

1. Sentencing principles

The spymasters facing questions over possible illegal spying on 88 New Zealanders will not say what details were supplied…

1. video GCSB: Commissioner recollects meeting with PM (3:18)

Judges are facing the biggest overhaul of accountability in decades, with the Cabinet considering legal changes that would…

Auckland Council will host a battle of the giants tomorrow at the first public test of the Ports of Auckland's new plea…

1. Council spent $60m to spread word

The average farming wage is higher than for the country as a whole and living costs in rural areas are lower.

1. No drought assistance requests from West Coast farmers

A complaint about an anti-gay marriage brochure, criticised as being "extraordinarily offensive", has…

1. Gender-neutral terms possible for marriage forms

Scientists from across the world have come here to examine how to unlock secrets hidden within our offshore tectonic plate…

1. Rangitoto: Blasts from past

It's a subject schools and universities don't like to dwell on - the likelihood that students may be cheating their way…

1. Education protest draws 2000 marchers

Judges are pledging greater openness and better information for the public about the administration of justice in New Zealand…

Lynette O'Brien supports intensification of Papatoetoe so long as it is not like the "concrete jungle" of stucco townhouses…

1. Politicians key to fixing housing (59 comments)

A low that we’ve been talking about, since the models in late March first picked it, is now finally…

More New Zealand children than ever have competed in the Weet-Bix Kids Tryathlon series, and yesterday's North Shore event…

1. Mum's budget meal-page winner if money is short

To geologists perhaps, six years is nothing, writes Brian Rudman. But for those of us on human time, it seems an inordinate…

1. video Auckland's volcano risk (2012) (3:44)

The United States has approved Japan's entry into negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a critical step for Tokyo's…

1. Fran O' Sullivan: Key's Latin American trip adds to our shine

Rachel Johnson, sister of the more famous Boris, says women are constantly being told to pamper themselves and to spend…

1. Deborah Hill Cone: Girls, it's time to face real world (67 comments)

Auckland's Unitary Plan takes a sledgehammer to decades of agreed zoning and the property rights of…

1. David Thornton: Rush to rezone: an open letter to the mayor (2 comments)

A background check will not scoop up those who have lower level mental health problems, writes Anna Fifield. Nor will it…

1. US state designs tough gun laws

1. South London's Kiwi capital

1. Editorial: Super City needs battle for mayoralty, not a shoo in (50 comments)

New areas of the Christchurch CBD have been reopened…

1. Time-lapse: Christchurch CBD

Deforestation intentions have soared as the emissions trading scheme, at least at current rock-bottom…

1. Beijing hit by first bird flu case

Hugh Jackman was frightened when a woman threw a razor filled with hair at him during a workout at a New York City gym.

1. video Trailer: The Wolverine (2:27)

NZ's biggest home childcare provider is rewording its contracts to impose mandatory charges beyond the…

1. Parents being forced to pay up

Women don't need to wear a bra, a new French study suggests, saying the under-garment is a "false necessity."…

1. Start the day the romantic way

Alf Hoyle of Rotorua shares this story: "After 53 years in real estate in Rotorua one incident has stuck in my mind.

1. Tree looks like a stag (62 comments)

Reinstating the "Pig Patrol" may be the only way of fixing discrepancies in prosecution rates between Pakeha and Maori and…

1. Warning system saves court time