An Otago free-range farm that became infected with bird flu in December has been confirmed as free of the disease. Approximately 200,000 birds at Mainland Poultry's Hillgrove site were culled after ...

As more than 700 people sit down to community Christmas Day lunches, the levels of need in the community this year are the ...

SPEAKER: Just hang on a minute, sorry. Look, you need to be clear about this. It's a Government motion. The member may speak to the motion but it's not a ministerial statement, which has the question ...

Emergency services are currently responding to a crash on State Highway 2, between Hebden Crescent and the Haywards Hill Road off-ramp. A motorcycle crashed at around 9.15am and both sides of the road ...

In the fairly recent past, accusations of cannibalism in a society or group were often considered to be a propaganda move on the part of the accusers. William Arens argued in his 1979 book The ...

Buildings on the old polytech site in Ashburton have been marked for demolition after failing to find a new home. Earlier this year the Ashburton District Council decided to relocate or demolish the ...

The PA forces also killed Yazid Ja'ayseh, the commander of the Jenin Brigades, who had evaded Israeli assassination attempts for his leadership role in unifying all Palestinian Resistance fighters ...

The brutal conflict, which erupted between rival militaries vying for power and influence last April has driven over 12 million people – nearly a quarter of Sudan’s population – from their homes, ...

Councils are set to get an annual report card and Ashburton’s Mayor Neil Brown believes his council would get a good grade this year. “I think we would get an A grade,” he said.

A street in Tauranga’s CBD returning to two-way traffic will be “good for business,” a cafe owner says. In March, the lower end of Harington St became one-way because of nearby construction and, the ...

Earlier this month, the Government announced the end of a pilot programme that allowed Māori and Pacific people to access bowel cancer screening starting at from age 50, effective 5 December.

At Colac Bay/Ōraka, 40 minutes west of Invercargill, a former landfill sits behind a crumbling coastal road next to the ocean. Affidavits signed by past and present residents claim the site is home to ...