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A near-capacity crowd of music fans has descended on the WOMAD festival of music and dance in Taranaki.

Lois Lawrence was hit as she stepped off a bus, and her daughter told her she looked as if she'd been bashed. Now she wants e-scooters banned.

Russia's forced deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators say.

Date pencilled in for Forum summit; PNG leader wants to expand cabinet; new flu vaccines in Samoa; and more

Auckland is set to have an A-League football club from next year.

Special sitting delayed by cyclones; Fiji schools re-opening; concerns over Fiji's debt; and more

Three more shipments are due to depart New Zealand shores in the next six weeks.

Campaigners for lowering of the voting age to 16 say the government is denying them human rights by delaying changes until the next term of government. Audio

The government is looking to remove unnecessary red tape that could prevent a streamlined recovery and rebuild following Cyclone Gabrielle.

Olympic high jump champion Dick Fosbury, who revolutionised the event with a radically different jumping technique, has died aged 76. Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the 1968...

The minister who lost the most in the government's second policy bonfire in just over a month insists it will not harm efforts to lower emissions.

Twitchers are recording more kererū, piwakawaka, and tūī in their backyards each year, according to the garden bird survey. Audio

The second set of government programmes to be cut, trimmed or delayed include the voting age, alcohol reform, a used container refund, and various transport projects.

Retraction: Oro governor refutes bribery trial allegations as false; Nauru detention move criticised; sex trial in French Polynesia abandoned; and more

A Texas man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing three women of helping his ex-wife obtain abortion pills, in one of the first major legal challenges under a state abortion ban since the United…

A British anti-transgender activist is planning a visit to Aotearoa, sparking concerns amongst Rainbow communities who say she has a "track record of hateful speech and the incitement of violence".

A South Canterbury town is continuing to lead the national roll-out of a new public transport model.

The National Party unveiled two dove-tailed policies last weekend - pumping up childcare subsidies while cutting down on consultants to cover the cost. Mediawatch looks at how the media ran the rule…

Australia and Canada are abandoning rebate policies for failing to address childcare affordability issues. It might be a good idea for New Zealand to learn from their experiences, writes Aisling…