Hundreds if not thousands of people are applying for the same jobs in the wake of last year's public sector gutting, a former ...

A week into the new school lunches regime, a Dunedin school says they are "not better, not worse" than those served last year. For more than 40 years, scientists have puzzled over how our sensory ...

One person has died following a crash on the Lewis Pass (State Highway 7) late last night. Police said they were notified of ...

Freedom campers are welcome on the South Island's West Coast, but too many are leaving unwanted deposits behind. The West Coast Regional Council is defending its latest increase in staff numbers — ...

Grass-track harness racing returns to the South in 2025 at Riverton tomorrow. Two southern colts with a spring in their step should attract some interest at the Karaka yearling sales. ODT Odds On ...

Two political polls out today show the left bloc has the numbers to form a government if an election was held today. Prisoners' pay rates need to be increased, say reform advocates, who have labelled ...

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a smokescreen for digging up fossil fuels. A friend who was with a New ...

A landlord who says her tenant poisoned her dogs with chocolate has had her claim for compensation declined by the Tenancy Tribunal, and been told to pay $1320 to the tenant. US President Donald Trump ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%. Former PM Jacinda Ardern's "deeply personal memoir" will be released in early June - and promises to provide all the ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab than from nature.

The Green Party is asking the speaker of the house and prime minister to reprimand government ministers over comments made ...