Threats of vigilante justice have prompted Dunedin police to call for calm, following claims a man was filming children and "flashed" a gun while trying to abduct a child from a Mosgiel park recently.
Concern about how easy it is for postgraduate students to isolate themselves "to an extreme level", has prompted the OUSA to create a new support programme to combat loneliness.
A small West Coast town is sitting on a significant supply of a valuable mineral used in everything from mobile phones to solar panels and electric vehicles.
Parliament's Speaker Gerry Brownlee has referred complaints about Green MP Julie Anne Genter's behaviour in the House last Wednesday night to the Privileges Committee.
The Marlborough district councillor who became an MP at the 2023 election says "upon reflection" he'll donate the money from his council role to a local charity.
Allowing himself to dream, Wellington Phoenix coach Giancarlo Italiano says a match-up with Sydney FC and mentor Ufuk Talay would be his fairy-tale A-League Men grand final.
The companies behind a luxury Queenstown hotel described as "beyond five-star" owe creditors more than $30 million after making significant trading losses since opening.
Tens of thousands of Australians who endured cancelled flights will each receive hundreds of dollars in compensation after Qantas admitted to misleading customers for years.
Kiwi director Taika Waititi struck a pose with wife Rita Ora as Hollywood stars, A-list celebrities, musicians and fashion's elite turned out for the 2024 gardened-themed Met Gala.
In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.
The board of the Canterbury A&P Association has announced almost all of its members will step down later this year because it can no longer work with the association's general committee.
The number of dams across Otago that could need a new "potential impact classification" shows how sensible recent changes to dam safety regulations were, an Otago sheep and beef farmer says.
Israel is playing down the likelihood of a ceasefire in Gaza after Hamas said it had accepted a proposal from mediators, even as residents fled the city of Rafah in fear of an Israeli assault.
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics that include disadvantages of the new rubbish and recycling system for rural properties, the urban landscape and the Uni's carbon footprint.