Two lifeguards are being praised for a heroic rescue in the Far North of a surfer who needed to be resuscitated twice after getting into trouble over the weekend. Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Lifeguard Service lifeguards Quinn Bedford... Read...

OPINION: Imagine this: you`re really keen to move to another country. Not just visit - you want to go and live there. In fact, you`re so keen - you`ll do anything to make it happen.So you think to yourself, `mmm, what would pretty... Read...

A safety camera trial monitoring how many people drive while using their mobile phones or while not wearing seatbelts will start tomorrow in Auckland. Waka Kotahi says no enforcement action will be taken during the trial and no... Read...

A dentist who removed a man`s tooth, despite him indicating partway through it was the wrong one, neglected the most basic requirements of a competent dentist.The deputy Health and Disability Commissioner today released a report... Read...

Michael Thorpe wasn`t expecting a bike ride to change his life forever.It was the summer of 2019 and Michael was riding up Gisborne`s Fox St to a mountain bike trail.`Just some fun, nothing crazy, and then I got the jump wrong,`... Read...

A Gisborne district councillor wants a climate emergency to be declared for the region following severe weather events in Tairawhiti. Read...

The Work and Income office in Papakura, was locked down for a short time this morning. Read...

Cabinet has confirmed New Zealand will send a further 30 NZ Defence Force personnel to the UK to train Ukrainian in using a light artillery gun. Read...

Faultlines is a partnership with North & South magazine - the full interactive project can be viewed here . The Alpine Fault is the longest natural straight line on earth, over 800km of fault line running between the Australian... Read...

A Kiwi photographer has captured an incredible aerial shot of a tartan-styled ocean wave break which is being described by some as a `phenomenon`.Nelson man Jack Burden grew up visiting Whangamata when he was a youngster and decided... Read...