A man is due to appear in Porirua District Court on Saturday, charged with attempted murder after a cyclist was hit by a car in Kāpiti. Israeli forces have raided one of three medical facilities on ...

Police want 'at risk' children as young as nine to be targeted for social investment to prevent them becoming criminals. A fire investigator was last night trying to ascertain the cause of a fire ...

Crews are responding to a "hopper fire" at a Southland commercial property, fire officials say. Santa got a last-minute ...

With the holiday road toll season upon us, ODT editorial artist Austin Milne recounts how his father was killed by a drunk ...

Dangerous fire conditions are sweeping across several states as Australia's southeast endures a Boxing Day scorcher. Fire and Emergency NZ is warning holidaymakers to have a plan and be prepared for ...

Fire and Emergency NZ is warning holidaymakers to have a plan and be prepared for the possibility of a wildfire this summer. Buildings on the old polytech site in Ashburton have been marked for ...

A Dunedin man is spending Christmas Day cooped up inside a motel, as the date to move back into his flood-damaged house keeps ...

A child has died after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Masterton this afternoon. A family-owned restaurant in the ...

Dunedin's Town Hall was packed to the rafters with merry-makers from all over the city for a special Christmas meal today. A ...

A family-owned restaurant in the Far North is making sure people who could have gone hungry today will instead go home full ...

Knives, tasers, screwdrivers, knitting needles, knuckledusters, fireworks and even an axe were among the banned items people have tried to take into courts across NZ recently. Police and DOC are ...

La Prele is an archaeological site in Wyoming where mammoths were hunted 13,000 years ago. Our people are the wayfarers of the ocean, we live by the lore of the sea, we are fed by it and fear it. Gary ...