Law changes mean pet shops that want to keep selling dogs can only do so if they get them from a rescue centre.

A person has been taken to Middlemore Hospital in a serious condition after a house fire in Papakura on Sunday afternoon.

Helicopters were being used on Sunday to drop animal feed to farmers in Australia's New South Wales state stranded by floods ...

Orange heavy rain warnings have been issued for Buller, the Westland ranges, parts of Canterbury and parts of Otago from ...

Police believe a person critically injured after being struck by a vehicle in Dannevirke this morning was deliberately hit.

Britain's South Western Railways on Sunday (UK time) becomes the first private train operator to be returned to public ...

The government believes raising the speed limit on Auckland's Northern Gateway toll road will allow people and freight to get ...

An Air New Zealand plane suffering a hole in the fuselage after hitting an airbridge is due to fly back to Auckland at low ...

A child has been taken to Christchurch hospital in a critical condition after a crash. Police were called to Fitzgerald ...

A 45-year-old man has been charged with the murder of a three-year-old Northland girl. Police were called to a house on ...

Glenn Renwick was twice listed by American business magazine Forbes as one of the 40 most admired chief executives in the ...

A $77 million write-off of the Navy ship HMNZ Manawanui, which sunk off Samoa last October, is contained in the Budget papers ...