Maurice Williamson's comments that opponents of land sales to foreigners were sometimes being racist was a case of humour backfiring, John Key said today.

A Hastings teenager jailed for assaulting his mother told police they had made his life hell and he would become the next Jan Molenaar.

The identity of a woman at the centre of an alleged $1.4 million Waikato bank fraud has been revealed.

New Zealand Football announced a multi-million dollar five-year partnership with ASB today.

There have been more than 1000 submissions against plans to build houses on an unspoilt Coromandel beach.