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Gusta Peach came to New Zealand in 1951 to be a land girl. Now 87, her story roams from a human skull on her mantlepiece to lost love with a married man and buried cars in Indonesia during WW2.

It had all the makings of a movie: a 400kg diamante-encrusted horse head, 35kg of cocaine, and people nicknamed 'the Godfather', 'the Artist' and 'the Technician'.

For women in filmmaking, the struggle is real. My Year with Helen director Gaylene Preston wants to change that.

Voters in the electorate face a choice between two cousins: Labour incumbent Nanaia Mahuta and the Māori Party's Rahui Papa. Audio

Manchester United netted four goals for the second consecutive week in the Premier League to rout Swansea City 4-0 and ensure their highest-scoring start to a season for 110 years.

Taika Waititi's star-studded birthday, the All Black spelling scandal, Guy Williams v The NZ Herald and more.

The National Party has chosen Hamish Walker to fill disgraced MP Todd Barclay's shoes in the Clutha-Southland electorate.

The Insurance Council is confident most claims for Canterbury homes following the November quake will be settled by the end of the year, its chief executive says. Audio

Nick Bollinger reviews a fresh set from Wellington singer-songwriter Charlotte Yates

Simon Morton and Alison Ballance present a three-part series exploring the science of sweat, virtual reality and Vitamin C. This week, the function of a much-maligned bodily fluid that plays a vital…

Slaughterhouses in England will have to install CCTV as part of government plans to monitor animal welfare.

The ACT party says it will cut through red tape and build at least 600,000 new homes in rural Auckland land over the next decade.

The Ardern ascent set the news agenda this past week, even if it was in part due to unwanted questions about babies. How long will the honeymoon last and how long will “new car smell” linger?  

The US president is taking an extended break at his golf resort despite previously saying he would be too busy.

Opinion - The new Labour leader's popularity and charm fit the script our political drama writers have been pitching for some time: out with the old and dowdy, in with the young and funky, writes…

The unruly climax to Papua New Guinea's national elections continued this weekend, with a late afternoon court intervention delaying the return of writs and reports of election-related violence…