10+ hour, 7+ min ago   (879+ words) It took only seconds for two jets to fly over DHL Stadium in Cape Town. It has taken considerably longer for them to fly out of the headlines. Minutes before kick-off in the second test of the Rugby's Greatest Rivalry…...

13+ hour, 19+ min ago   (466+ words) New Zealand First says it will be campaigning for conservation land to be opened up for economic development. The party's deputy leader and resources minister Shane Jones said he fought hard to retain a controversial clause 6ea in the Conservation Amendment…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (623+ words) New Zealand's Tibetan community said it was shocked to see the devastation caused by last week's catastrophic flash flood near the Nepal-China border. The community said the disaster had also highlighted ongoing concerns about the impact of increasing infrastructure construction…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (199+ words) The chief executive of the Financial Markets Authority, Samantha Barrass, is leaving her role with immediate effect. She intended to return to the UK to attend to family matters. Barrass had earlier been suspended from her role. The FMA board…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (570+ words) Opportunity party leader Qiulae Wong says New Zealand needs to rebuild its relationship with Māori, promising to restore changes to marine and coastal area law and repeal legislation that has stripped references to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. In an interview…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (307+ words) A North Canterbury holiday camp that was at the centre of a serious E coli outbreak has hooked up to the council water supply. Six schoolchildren were hospitalised, 10 others became ill and at least 37 others were thought to have become…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (751+ words) A woman who murdered her two children, stuffed their bodies into suitcases and abandoned them in a storage unit has had seven years taken off the time she must spend behind bars. Hakyung Lee is still subject to a life…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (161+ words) If you're in Tauranga this weekend, things are about to get exciting... That's because the Zespri AIMS Games are back - bringing young athletes, their families, and their supporters, into the city for a massive week of sport... With over 14,000 athletes…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (518+ words) A string of earthquakes rumbling the Southern Alps north of Milford Sound are not due to the Alpine Fault, a seismologist says. Dozens of aftershocks have been recorded in the lower South Island after a string of earthquakes that struck…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (382+ words) South Africa halfback Morne van den Berg is relishing a match-up with New Zealand's Cam Roigard in the third Rugby's Greatest Rivalry Test in Johannesburg as he backed the Springbok defensive system to keep the livewire number nine under wraps....