New Zealand is moving towards its own style of festive feast - and seafood's at the fore.

Eighteen months after stopping a gunman from finishing off two wounded policemen, reluctant hero Len Holmwood has had enough. He wants a job.

The PSA bacteria is spreading through the nation's kiwifruit crops with the latest confirmed infections found on orchards in ...

I have in my hand a taonga. A treasure. Well, it's a treasure to me anyway. And I don't have it in my hand, obviously, otherwise how would I be able to type?

Hawkes Bay is receiving some well-deserved attention.

Three of the world's best-known chefs will combine to prepare a "once in a lifetime" meal at the exclusive Cape Kidnappers resort in Hawkes Bay.

A Palmerston North jury has found David Bourke not guilty of murdering his brother Timothy while on the run from police last year.

'First drop your pie' was the lesson for one of the Hastings crew who cycled into Parliament to prove their weight loss programme was working.

A fifth birthday party finished with a gang brawl and eight arrests in Hastings last night.

The trial has begun of a freezing worker accused of shooting dead his brother and driving around the lower North Island with him in the back seat, avoiding police during a two-day manhunt.

Wairoa police will meet with the town's mayor and the local MP next week after the second gang-related shooting in five days.

Police and the armed offenders squad will be out in force in the northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa tonight.