Defending champions Central Districts cruised to victory in the HRV Cup opener, thrashing Northern in Hamilton.

If you want Christmas Day to really be a holiday, book yourself into a restaurant and let the staff do all the work.

New Zealand's road to the 2012 London Olympic begins in Adelaide this weekend at the Oceania track championships.

TV3 is taking the BSA to court over a complaint from Social Development Minister Paula Bennett, about a report claiming she offered a beneficiary money to drop a privacy case.

A foreign rowing official who was caught by police driving over 80 km/h over the speed limit has had the charges dropped.

A police officer is to undergo surgery after his patrol car was smashed into - possibly deliberately - by a fleeing driver in Hamilton this afternoon.

Two people were killed and three seriously hurt after a car driven by a 15-year-old on a learner's licence collided with a truck today.

A man has been arrested for a series of sexual assaults on other men.

A former high-profile principal says he will defend dozens of charges against him that include money-laundering, false accounting and fraud.