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Veteran broadcaster Paul Holmes is off life support after undergoing heart surgery last week.

Two prisoners who escaped from a Waikato prison are to appear in court on Monday.

Two prisoners who escaped from Waikeria Prison have been arrested in Northland.

Police believe two escaped prisoners could be heading to the Far North.

Police say they are yet to find two prisoners who escaped from their cell at Waikeria Prison, near Te Awamutu, on Wednesday night.

Thursday's headlines: home mortgage rates tumble; childhood friends spent four hours in Lake Taupo without lifejackets refusing to believe they would die; Govt observer seen as calming influence on…

One of three men charged with murder at Blueskin Bay near Dunedin has pleaded guilty. The others are expected to be go on trial in mid-July.

A legal attempt is being made to save the building where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote one of his most famous Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound Of The Baskervilles.

Witnesses who were shot and wounded by Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik have told of their extraordinary escapes at his trial in Oslo. Audio

An earthquake engineer says many construction companies are scared of adopting new quake-resistant building designs because they do not realise how simple and cost effective they are. Audio

An unreinforced masonry building that collapsed and killed a man during the February 2011 earthquake in Christchurch had previously been repaired and deemed structurally safe.

The general manager of The Press newspaper has rejected claims he was pushing hard for the company to re-occupy its historic central Christchurch building after it was red stickered following a large…

The big-hitting American golfer J.B. Holmes has lost swing speed and driving distance but is simply thankful to be back competing on the PGA Tour this week after undergoing brain...

The use of shear or exterior walls to hold up buildings has been called into question at an inquiry into the Canterbury earthquakes.

A trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been issued a year ahead of its release. Audio

An inquiry into the Canterbury earthquakes has been told the premises where a man was killed by a falling concrete wall were not inspected by structural engineers between the September and February…

An overseas expert giving evidence at an inquiry into the Canterbury earthquakes has called on authorities to act quickly to strengthen buildings.

The Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission has heard from the employer of the engineers who declared that the Pyne Gould Corporation building was safe to enter in the months before it collapsed in…

Engineers who cleared the Pyne Gould building after September's earthquake have told the Canterbury Earthquakes Royal Commission they would not have done anything differently.