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 ...

Dashcam footage has captured a van "driving erratically" on the rural, windy road from Piha Beach, narrowly avoiding a ...

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 ...

Ataria Heta, Summer Mills-Metcalf and Hamuera Ellis-Erihe have all been under inquiry at a Northland coroner's court. A 14-year-old girl who scored high on an Oranga Tamariki suicide risk screening ...

Candid comics (from left) Brynley Stent, Tom Sainsbury, Chris Parker and Kura Forrester. Photo / supplied In 2016, four New Zealand comedians on the cusp of collective and individual acclaim met in a ...

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 ...

Rory McIlroy believes Donald Trump becoming US President for the second time could help “clear the way” for a peace deal in golf’s civil war. The four-time major winner also said the potential ...

Vice-President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, delivers a concession speech at Howard University. Photo / The New York Times The keen ones began lining up at about midday to get ...

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 / ...

Farewell to the coolest man in the room.