Tony Veitch writes: Asking All Blacks to turn up, train their backsides off, plus learn a new format of the game in 10 days. Why not?

A young man has been shot dead while filming a hip hop music video in a Brisbane CBD hotel.

Veteran Aussie Brad Hodges has joined the chorus of disapproval calling Brendon McCullum's ban "a mockery".

Gable Tostee has taken to social media to dismiss as 'nonsensical' suggestions of him being recharged over Warriena Wright's balcony death.

Controversial former Black Cap captain Brendon McCullum has opened up about falling in love with cricket again.

Auckland commuters can groan in agreement with a report that reveals the city has the worst travel times and reliability in Australia and New Zealand.

The death of a 13-year-old Brisbane boy in a choking "game" has sparked warnings for parents to educate their children about the dangers of the online craze.

Footage of a deadly brown snake eating a carpet python in Australia has proved popular internet viewing.

Raonic, who upset Roger Federer in the 2016 final, is top seed this week.

Gable Tostee has taken to Facebook to comment on the Queensland coroner reopening the investigation into Warriena Wright's death.

Australia has been battling the invasive South American fire ants for 15 years, but have so far failed to stop the vicious and aggressive insects.

A pregnant Auckland woman is set to become the first Kiwi to have in-utero surgery to reduce the severity of spina bifida in her child.

A senior nurse in Australia is facing a manslaughter charge amid allegations she failed to seek medical help for her nephew who died from pneumonia.

A track fault, storm damage, and a broken down train came together to cause commuter chaos in Brisbane but it was an emoji that may have caused the most trouble.

Missing Dunedin woman Alice Tocher has been found and is in a Brisbane hospital, her father has confirmed.

The remains were discovered today in a "plumbing pit" at the back of a property in Brighton in Brisbane's north.

The passport of a missing Dunedin Mother-of-three Alice Tocher has been found in Brisbane.

A Dunedin mother-of-three missing since Thursday last week is in Australia, police have confirmed.

The partying hasn't stopped for Michael Atkins as Australian police halt their search for the remains of Matthew Leveson.

Brisbane man who stabbed a woman 11 times had a history of abusing women.

Before Australian Paul Lambert stabbed and tried to burn a woman he met on Tinder he had been deported from the US for stalking another woman.

Rachel Smalley: A young woman loses her life in controversial circumstances, and the man who was with her at the time is paid what's believed to be at least $100k.

Father rang to say good night to his 4-year-old son. Hours later the boy was dead.

The 34-year-old developer, who has become the youngest new entrant to BRW's Rich List, began with a humble gym when he was just 19.

The taxi driver who bashed down the back door of a bus as it burst into flames has given a detailed account of what happened next.

A "cluster of detectives grabbed my phone" after she was suspected of live tweeting details of the case from court in Brisbane.

Gable Tostee's acquittal over the balcony fall death of Wellington woman Warriena Wright was almost scuttled by an Instagram post.

The man accused of murdering Kiwi woman Warriena Wright during a Tinder date on the Gold Coast has arrived in court to await the jury's verdict.

The jury in the murder trial of Gable Tostee is entering its fourth day of deliberations after asking a further question of the judge.

The jury in the Gable Tostee trial have ended a third day of deliberations without a verdict.