Better an utter, total if humiliating backdown than a messy compromise that keeps the mining issue alive into election year.

A scheme aimed at attracting wealthy migrants to invest in businesses and create jobs in NZ has resulted in just one approval.

Wealthy Chinese investors say strict fund transfer policies are preventing them from becoming investor migrants in New Zealand.

A shell containing a Taser barb fired from a shotgun is one of the alternative weapons police are considering using in their fight against crime.

Fifteen lucky poker players are headed from Auckland to Queenstown this week for a chance to strike it rich.

Loud explosions could be heard before police battered down the door of a Dunedin flat during an armed standoff today, a witness says.

The principal of an elite Australian Catholic college has suspended a group of boys allegedly involved in a $6000 theft spree in Queenstown.

Couples without children are expected to overtake two-parent families as the most common household formation by next year, according to Statistics NZ.

NZers will look back on the winter of 2010 as the moment we finally realised the last decade of growth was a sham.

A teenager who walked away from a horror smash that left 11 others in hospital says he woke on the road hearing his friends calling for help.