President-elect Donald Trump and his allies prepared today to take power after a decisive election victory that could hand Republicans unified control of Government and give Trump a broad mandate to ...

The controversial bill will have its first reading next week when Christopher Luxon is out of the country. Video / TVNZ ...

But this month, he was sentenced to 150 hours of community work for drug possession. Polkinghorne’s defence suggested he be fined roughly $650, Justice Graham Lang said. The maximum fine able to be ...

At 78, he's the oldest man ever elected to the presidency. US Correspondent Logan Church reports on Trump's political ...

A person has been seriously injured in a car-jacking outside a South Auckland McDonald’s fast-food outlet this afternoon. Emergency services were called to Bader Drive in Mangere’s town centre at ...

Trump is heading back to the White House and Unions call for plan to help young people into jobs. A patched member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club gang has been arrested as part of an ongoing police ...

A 14-year-old girl who scored high on an Oranga Tamariki suicide risk screening three times had her file closed by the agency and then disappeared off its radar. Four months later, she died from a ...

Those were the thoughts a 16-year-old murder defendant recalled racing through his mind after throwing a punch - with a kitchen paring knife gripped in his fist - at a stranger who immediately started ...

Indonesia’s best-kept secret is Raja Ampat, a jungle-covered archipelago replete with wildlife and surrounded by coral reef – easily the world’s last unspoiled destination, writes Paul Walters There ...

There’s no accounting for public taste. That would surely have to apply to the American public with the election of. Despite seeing himself as pulling off the bigge ...

Iwi leader Helmut Modlik and six other senior members of Ngāti Toa walked out of the public gallery at Parliament today in protest during the introduction of the controversial Treaty Principles Bill.

Nine people defended multiple charges, including the murder of Tauranga man Mitchell Te Kani, in the High Court at Hamilton. A tenth defendant, Jamie Thomas, had all of his charges dismissed. Photo / ...