The government is introducing rules to punish people who endanger the welfare of their dogs by tying them up for too long.

Vape stores setting up inside booze shops "only exacerbates the harm from both", say opponents, but the vaping industry says ...

Police have suspended the search for a boat reported to have been swamped by water in the Cook Strait last night.

Police in Levin say a man has been arrested after reports of a firearm being discharged. It's the sixth such incident in the ...

Leo Darin Goodwin, 53, is accused of approaching teenagers under the age of 16 in breach of the conditions of the order.

The engineer who signed off a ferris wheel that lost a part at a Christchurch light show says no one's safety was compromised ...

There are calls for a Rental Warrant of Fitness to ensure student flats in North Dunedin are actually complying with Healthy ...

A jury has found a man guilty of manslaughter after his dogs fatally mauled his friend to death - the first conviction of its ...

A Lake Alice survivor has asked the High Court to review Cabinet's decision on redress and formally find it breaches his ...

The Mystics have added 52-test cap Silver Fern to their shooting end, after nine seasons with cross-town rivals the Stars.

A homicide investigation has been launched after the death of a man in Mangapapa this morning. Police were called to reports ...

More than half of the 422 pāua illegally taken from Kaikōura's south coast were undersized, says the Ministry for Primary ...