Partnered content: Many stroke survivors who regain the ability to walk in hospital struggle to maintain the same level of mobility once they return home.

A toddler who died yesterday after she was hit by a car driven by a relative in her West Auckland driveway has now been named by police.

Certainly New Zealand offers a lot less than Australia in many ways, but at least we can still have the conversation about inequality, writes Dita De Boni.

A man has been ordered to pay his ex-wife and business partner more than $100,000 after their relationship ended and she was sacked.

Bank of New Zealand is watching dairy prices closely but has faith in farmers' ability to manage finances through dips in the commodities cycle, says chief executive Anthony Healy.

One person has died after a a car and truck collided north of Auckland. It is the first road death of the long weekend.

New Zealand's financial regulator is probing two possible cases of insider trading and market manipulation, after receiving 15 complaints about such behaviour in the past year.

New Zealand scientists hope to discover what makes 350kg deep sea beast tick. Watch a live stream of the examination.

Scientists will soon examine an intact colossal squid for the first time in six years.

A police dog handler whose animal bit a suspected criminal, who turned out to be an innocent man relieving himself in a car park, has been cleared of any wrongdoing.

A desperate man managed to send two text messages to his partner after his boat sank, but they were dismissed as a joke.

Scientists at the Te Papa museum are hoping a colossal squid now in their possession is a male - making an already rare find an extraordinary one.

National's election war-chest has been given a half-million dollar boost by the estate of a wealthy Christchurch businessman.

National's Hamilton West MP Tim Macindoe has been referred to police along with Free FM in Hamilton for allegedly airing an election advertisement outside the proper period.

According to a new report from the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA), ethical investments increased by at least 13 per cent over the year to December 2013.

Plain packaging makes cigarettes taste worse than branded cigarettes and makes all cigarettes taste the same, new research suggests.

The pachinko industry in Japan wants casinos, driven by attendance that has sunk more than 60 per cent since the mid-90s and an uncertain legal status.