A Tauranga barber will travel the length of the country to promote Lifeline and stop the stigma surrounding mental health. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Twenty-one seconds is all it took for Wendy Atkinson's 2-year-old to scale their regulation-standard pool fence.

The little girl who had been missing at sea with her father for almost a month is due back in New Zealand in the next few days.

An extradition order is not being sought for a Kiwi yachtsman who sailed to Australia with his young daughter.

A record number of New Zealand students have received early round offers to some of the world's best tertiary institutions, including the Ivy League.

These are the first pictures of Que Langdon reunited with her mother, after almost a month at sea with her father.

Queensland Police have found no evidence a New Zealand man found under an Australian bridge was seriously injured in a "gay hate crime" as his husband alleged.

Alan Langdon's father believes his son always intended to sail to Australia, not the Bay of Islands as he claims.

A man has been jailed for an attack that ruined a tourist's trip to New Zealand and caused her to suffer flashbacks.

A Christchurch mother who objected moves to exhume her son five years after he died, has now been buried alongside him.

A yachting expert says a fleeing yachtie's sailing trip with his young daughter would have been slow going with big weather risks as he crossed the Tasman.

Waikato District Health Board is postponing around 500 patients' appointments because of the strike.

Auckland commuters can groan in agreement with a report that reveals the city has the worst travel times and reliability in Australia and New Zealand.

Three quarters of Kiwis say they would pay more for organic, sustainable and ethically produced products. The latest Colmar Brunton

NZ adventurer to attempt never-before-tried trip - rowing from Singapore to Darwin, cycling across Australia, rowing to New Plymouth and then a 40km cycle to Stratford.

The thieves who broke into Gun City and stole BB guns and air rifles probably wanted firearms, the chain's owner says.

NZ on Screen has released its top 10 legendary Kiwi party anthems.

A posterior tattoo canvas and erotic eggplant are among the site's oddest hits of 2016.

A British couple who had all their most valuable belongings stolen from their campervan have traced their phone to an apartment block but can't get to it.

A rich-lister's son who made headlines for punching a police officer unconscious has finished second in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race.

Firefighters spent more than an hour battling five small blazes in Taupo which they suspect were deliberately lit.

Three young teenagers died in a high-speed car crash when their vehicle, driven by a 14-year-old, slammed into a tree.

State Highway 2 between Gisborne and Wairoa will be closed at some point over the next two days to investigate at fatal bus crash.

The best spots for enjoying a Christmas hamper outdoors will be in the Bay of Plenty, Nelson and Central Otago tomorrow.

The public are being asked to help find jewellery stolen in Palmerston North.

A Sydney conman who fleeced $500,000 out of a Christchurch man in a vending machine scam has today been jailed for 15 months and will

A double-murderer who has spent 22 years in prison for killing an elderly couple for a thrill has again had parole denied. Gresham

A pregnant Auckland woman is set to become the first Kiwi to have in-utero surgery to reduce the severity of spina bifida in her child.

Organisers of a Christmas fireworks show in Taranaki say anyone who thinks they were hit by debris should contact them.

Overseas associates of missing man John Beckenridge, who abducted his 11-year-old stepson last year, are working with New Zealand police to track the pair down.