An elderly woman faces losing her home after letting her son keep a total of $11 million of alleged…

A Christchurch couple's romantic dinner was ruined by National MP Aaron Gilmore's "unpleasant" behaviour at the table next…

1. MP's 'disgusting' behaviour

The Financial Markets Authority still wants Mark Hotchin to be repaid the $12.2 million he put towards an Auckland mansion…

Tariana Turia believes it was Parekura Horomia who stopped other Labour MPs from crossing the floor during the controversial…

1. photos Farewell to Parekura Horomia (6 photos)

The failings and poor decision-making of Easy Rider skipper Rewai Karetai are highlighted in a damning…

1. Editorial: People smuggling is serious (25 comments)

A company with 50 staff and its own board is being set up with a budget of $33.6 million to run the 2017 World Masters Games…

1. Tourism trends from A to Z

Maori leaders of the future learned a variety of waka tangata skills yesterday. The waka training, held at Port Waikato…

1. Big summer of surf rescues for Northland lifeguards

Auckland Council's water company says it will start bringing in "much fairer" waste-water charges for 22,000 businesses…

1. Water charges cause ripples

Auckland Council wrongly listed for protection 150 pre-1940s houses, drawing criticism from the Environment Court.

1. Pair win leaky home appeal right

The Prime Minister's heart, other vital organs and skeleton are to be displayed in Mt Wellington tonight…

1. Campaigning MP keeps up the fight

Pacific health experts are calling for a quota on the amount of fatty food exported to the Pacific Islands, where heart…

1. Diabetes risk in one daily drink

The Health Ministry said it was working on the idea of forcing tobacco retailers to be listed on a state register of tobacco…

1. Sebastien Aymeric: Tobacco industry's plain packaging fight a lost cause (102 comments)

A rescue is underway in Northland after a tractor went down a bank near Maungaturoto.

1. Truckie jumps from fire

An animal welfare strategy released today will not see an end to sow cells or battery farming, an animal welfare group says. The…

1. Cage protest against battery farms

Police say today's property search in Taranaki, in relation to the murder of George Taiaroa, is likely…

1. Taiaroa probe focuses on town

A Lower Hutt woman has admitted receiving nearly $80,000 over eight years in social welfare payments she was not entitled…

Sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson is still denying an alleged breach of his parole conditions. A telephone conference…

Three young children swept into the Kaipara Harbour have been retrieved safely by family, shortly after a search was started…

Craggy Range vineyard in Martinborough has been fined $36,000 after a contractor fractured his arm when he was thrown from…

The man shot and tasered by police in Porirua is in a stable condition, with two women also recovering…

1. video Police shoot and Taser armed Porirua man (2:27)

Bad decisions, poor weather and incorrect ground level readings may have contributed to a fatal plane crash that killed…

Police and fire investigators are investigating a suspected arson after a fire extensively damaged a Bayfair couple's home…

Trade Me has warned members about a phishing email which aims to trick users into entering their details on a scam website. A…

Ship crews must decide on an agreed common language to avoid lapsing into their native tongue during an emergency, says…

1. Ship in port for repairs after grounding

A senior officer who stole $2750 in cash during his role at Christchurch police says he was "stressed"…

A Whangarei man charged with manslaughter after he allegedly assaulted a mother of two who later died has been further remanded…

A security guard was shot from a car with an air gun in what police say was a "callous and unprovoked attack" in Lower Hutt…

A new survey has found that failing to leave details after hitting a parked car is the driver habit Kiwi motorists found…

1. John Roughan: It's the roads not the motorway (66 comments)

A bull mastiff dog bowled an elderly Runanga man over and tore a large chunk out of his arm - ripping his flesh to the bone…

A man accused of threatening politicians and other high-ranking officials has been warned by a judge…

The policies and planks of Mayor Len Brown should be subjected to the challenge of a worthy rival in October.

1. Editorial: Finance fiasco also a learning experience (25 comments)

1. Shelley Bridgeman: Can we communicate with dead people? (51 comments)

1. Trim milk

A major probe into allegations of fraud and corruption…

1. Brownlee questioned over quake fraud allegations

Captain Kirk played a key role in thrusting Commander Hadfield to the sort of fame not enjoyed by a…

1. Mascot sent to final frontier

Reese Witherspoon recalled that she panicked, said some "crazy things" and even claimed to be pregnant the night she was…

1. video Reese Witherspoon apologises after arrest (0:50)

Teenagers in a pocket of rural Georgia have held their first integrated school prom, ending decades…

1. We're not racist, but ...

Gatoloaifa'ana Amataga Alesana-Gidlow has long been a champion of healthy living in Samoa. The former…

1. Drought at home and in US hits Skellerup, as forecast profit cut to $17m

Lamp-post in the way now A great-grandmother had a driveway laid just days after council contractors put a lamp-post directly…

1. Make room for the pigeon (15 comments)

The great and the common man came to farewell Parekura Horomia yesterday. On the first day of the Ikaroa-Rawhiti MP's tangi…

1. Talk swells over MP's successor