Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners ...

Fire and Emergency (FENZ) said it was alerted to the large scrub fire at around midnight and it had since grown to 1200 ...

Work is underway to protect taxpayer information from quantum computing's power to break through commonly used encryption ...

Opinion - Success will depend on how they are implemented and, most of all, on the sector receiving sufficient funding.

A risk assessment by the Department of Conservation looked at 1145 species of birds, bats, lizards, and frogs, insects and ...

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts has revealed New Zealand's second emissions reduction target of between 51 and 55 percent ...

A person has died in a water related incident in Gisborne on Thursday afternoon. Police said they were called to an address ...

Advocates say many in the disabled community, particularly deaf people, submitted on the bill - but are now being excluded.

Former minister of Justice Kiritapu Allan made a submission as the committee heard from organisations such as YouthLaw ...

The park and its contents will be vested as a legal person, its peaks will be named Te Kāhui Tupua - so the park will ...

Auckland FC have an almost identical home and away record in their first season in the A-League. In the 14 games played so ...

John Drummond, former music professor at Otago University, composer and broadcaster, talks about his book Habitation of ...