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Australia's most exceptional athletes reside in football-devout Melbourne, although they don't perform in stadiums, nor do they feature on the nightly news.

Police have named the man shot dead at a police stop in New Plymouth earlier this weekend, and say he had rammed a marked police car.

In today's sports news - Scott McLaughlin loses championship lead, Mitch Evans dominates in Rome and Tiger's irons go for record price.

The 85th anniversary of the Royal New Zealand Airforce, Te Tauaarangi o Aotearoa will be marked on Saturday with a flypast over most of the North Island.

He was lured to New Zealand with promises of money and a better life, but instead he was kept as a slave, repeatedly assaulted and cut off from his family. For the first time, he tells his story.

As heavy rain fell in northern Hawke's Bay two weeks ago, Hamish Pryde waded his bulldozer through deep water to reach the Wairoa River, where he worked till nightfall to stop a potential disaster.

A trans man says he was endangered on multiple occasions when in the care of Corrections. Is the department doing enough to ensure the safety of trans prisoners?

A tsunami warning issued for Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu after an earthquake struck south-east of New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands yesterday has been lifted.

Wellington clinicians say the capital's youth mental health service is desperately short staffed and has all but collapsed.

Civil Defence is today delivering vital supplies to Gisborne residents cut off by the week's severe flooding, while contractors work to clear slips and landslides in the Tairāwhiti region.

When police shoot and kill, they're investigated by fellow officers. Guyon Espiner reveals that shooters have been shown evidence in advance of being interviewed.

For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the Chernobyl exclusion zone, the site of the worst nuclear accident in human history - until Russia invaded Ukraine.

Japan and Australia on Friday slapped fresh sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

American Samoa's Covid 19 response is changing as it deals with the community spread of the virus.

They were supposed to be a sanctuary for tamariki taken away from a world of abuse, but for those placed in Social Welfare facilities in the 1970s and '80s, they were houses of pain and fear.

European Union leaders have condemned the "unspeakable suffering" Russia is inflicting on Ukraine, despite refusing Kyiv's appeal for rapid accession to the bloc at a summit in France.

Samoan PM says women need to be heard; on-trial doctor's denial; and four hospitalised in American Samoa

"It's a disaster. These people have nothing, just one bag because they had only three minutes to run and save their lives," a Lviv city official said as thousands arrived from bombed Ukraine cities.

A report obtained by RNZ has laid bare a litany of failures during the escape of two offenders from a youth justice residence in 2020.

A discarded part of a rocket is believed to have crashed into the Moon's far side by now, say scientists who were expecting the impact at 1.25am this morning (12:25 GMT).

Opinion - Social support is badly failing women trying to escape abuse, and often retraumatising them, says a founder of Backbone Collective.

The NSW premier says "things will get worse before they get better" with up to 200mm of rain expected.

When a firefighter abused his young son, many in their small town refused to believe it. Fire and Emergency kept him on, and locals turned on the boy's mum, saying she'd made up the allegations.