Women, middle-aged people and high-income households are under more financial stress than other New Zealanders, a survey has shown.

A new bottle store licence has angered residents of one of Auckland's poorest suburbs after it was 'sneaked through'.

Gaming blogs and websites have been abuzz over TV3's recent Monday night movie ad, which one said was "very similar" to a US Sony PlayStation 3 ad.

Murray McCully says Afghanistan's Bamiyan Province, where NZ troops have been since 2003, will be ready to stand on its own before Hamid Karzai's 2014 deadline.

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.