A scaffolder has been paid out $17,500 by his former financial adviser when it was discovered he did not have the accident insurance in place that he thought he did. Police in Waikato have offered ...

A man is due to appear in Porirua District Court on Saturday, charged with attempted murder after a cyclist was hit by a car ...

Police want 'at risk' children as young as nine to be targeted for social investment to prevent them becoming criminals. A fire investigator was last night trying to ascertain the cause of a fire ...

With the holiday road toll season upon us, ODT editorial artist Austin Milne recounts how his father was killed by a drunk ...

A Dunedin man is spending Christmas Day cooped up inside a motel, as the date to move back into his flood-damaged house keeps ...

Crews are responding to a "hopper fire" at a Southland commercial property, fire officials say. Santa got a last-minute ...

A scaffolder has been paid out $17,500 by his former financial adviser when it was discovered he did not have the accident ...

India's Virat Kohli has been fined 20 percent of his match fees following a clash of shoulders with debutant Australia opener Sam Konstas in the Boxing Day test in Melbourne. With the new century ...

A family-owned restaurant in the Far North is making sure people who could have gone hungry today will instead go home full ...

A child has died after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Masterton this afternoon. A family-owned restaurant in the ...

Hasty tourism operators are worrying the Automobile Association after a fourth crash involving a tour bus on South Island roads in the past five months.

Dunedin's Town Hall was packed to the rafters with merry-makers from all over the city for a special Christmas meal today. A ...