Chorus says phone and internet has been restored to most homes and businesses in Golden Bay, after a day-long outage affecting 111 emergency calls.

Seven people were missing after a fire and powerful explosion levelled a commercial fireworks facility in rural northern ...

The Minister for Mental Health has been briefed on the death of a baby found in a wheelie bin in Auckland. A 32-year-old ...

The building will be the largest single health facility in New Zealand and largest health investment in the South Island.

More than a dozen Ministry of Social Development staff have walked off the job, refusing to return to what they say is an unsafe office with ''strong mould and sewerage smell'. Staff in the ministry's ...

The amount of money Health NZ is spending on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing and could reach $200 million this year. Checkpoint has obtained figures that show the spend on fill-ins ...

Te Tūkohu Ngāwhā Mātauranga Māori Science and Design Fair is run by Te Arawa Lakes Trust and, this year, it will be held from ...

The amount of money Health NZ is spending on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing and could reach $200 million this year. Checkpoint has obtained figures that show the spend on fill-ins ...

The Indian business community is divided over proposed reforms to the Trespass Act that were unveiled by the government in ...

A former IRD prosecutor is calling for changes to the student loan system so that Kiwis living overseas aren't put off coming home because they're worried about being arrested at the border. In April, ...

United States correspondent Todd Zwillich spoke to Lisa Owen about the latest updates in the Sean 'Diddy' Combs trial - Combs has been aqcuitted of the most serious charges in his criminal federal ...

Canadians have boycotted US goods, since Trump launched his trade war and threatened to annex his North American neighbours.