A top Zealand-born Melbourne Cup jockey has been suspended for three months after testing positive to a banned substance.

A Christchurch musician has successfully had his conviction for assaulting his four-year-old son quashed by the Supreme Court.

Adam Blair, Frank Pritchard and Ben Matulino were today named to return for New Zealand's Four Nations test against Australia.

Americain, with jockey Gerald Mosse aboard, won the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington today.

Tourism NZ has slammed a 55 per cent increase in the flight tax tourists from the United Kingdom will have to pay to fly to our shores.

A backlash against big spikes in departure tax for people travelling on long-haul flights from Britain has gone global.

The widow of 'Good Samaritan' murder victim Austin Hemmings welcomed his killer's guilty plea outside court today and called for law-makers to toughen up on knife crime.

New Zealand light-weight scullers Storm Uru and Peter Taylor are through to the semifinals at the Rowing World Championships.

Sunday Times rugby writer Stephen Jones has labelled the All Blacks' haka as the 'instrument of the worst kind of sporting arrogance'.