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NZ's woolly mutants offer big breakthroughs
It might sound like something straight out of the 2006 horror comedy Black Sheep, but woolly mutants are leading our scientists toward intriguing discoveries - and innovative new products.
It might sound like something straight out of the 2006 horror comedy Black Sheep, but woolly mutants are leading our scientists toward intriguing discoveries - and innovative new products.
A bush fire near a Taupo native forest is well under control but it will take crews another few days to make sure it's completely out.
A racially-motivated attack on a young Muslim New Zealander yesterday was of the more extreme kind but was not unique, the Islamic Women's Council says.
Scientists have ruled out any suggestion this morning's 5.2 quake was linked to the mass whale stranding at Farewell Spit.
In Papakura, in Auckland's south, crime and gangs are a regular feature of many students' lives and can affect their education.
Watch: A young Auckland woman who was accosted and assaulted in what appears to be a racially-motivated attack has been "flooded" with support.
As our population ages, retirement at 65 is becoming out of reach for most.
There's "something for everyone" at tomorrow's 17th annual Big Gay Out, including drag queens and an all-day dance party.
Police firearms have accidentally gone off at least 12 times since 2010, and police have had at least 504 unplanned Taser discharges.
Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey are headed to New Zealand.
Gamers from around the world are wanting to help, after the story of a PlayStation stolen from a Wellington Hospital has gone viral.
While Australia is suffering an intense heat wave, a WeatherWatch poll has found 54 per cent of Kiwis say that it doesn't even feel like summer here at all.
A woman was injured after the car she was driving hit a parked car and then "burst into the lounge'' of a Dunedin house today.
Nobody appears to have been injured in a one-car crash near Twizel this afternoon.
A person is dead after being hit by a car in a Taupo driveway overnight.
An Auckland woman says she was left looking "like a burns victim" after a botched beauty treatment at a Ponsonby salon.
A garage owner has defended displaying the Confederate flag after a Dunedin woman took to social media to register her shock at seeing it.
Students at Papakura High School are striving to change the community's perception of their school, one of the country's most disadvantaged.
Two people were seriously injured in the single car crash about 8am north of Warkworth.
Northlander jailed for selling drugs often met his young customers at the school boundary.
Police divers have been called to search near a group of offshore islands in Northland after debris from a missing boat was discovered.
Radio host is unperturbed about ruffling quite a few feathers in his shock-jock career as he jumps into the big red waka, reports Claire Trevett.
EXCLUSIVE: Miles McKelvy ripped off $1.4 million from vulnerable home buyers. Now, he faces a second stint in prison after importing Fantasy into NZ.
Phil Taylor talks to a team member about the Olympics that were airbrushed from our history.
A large amount of offal spilled onto State Highway 2 west of Wairoa.
The theft of the donated Playstation 4 left one of its youngest users - a boy with a brain tumour - in tears.
David Sutherland has spent the past four years rolling the dice on a giant gamble. "It was a big punt really," he says. "We just made it up as we went along."
One person has been injured after the car they were in drove off the road and into a swamp in Taranaki. The car, which was travelling
Police investigations are ongoing following the discovery of a body in a shed fire in Hoon Hay yesterday morning.
A truck has brought power lines down in Matatoki after it backed into a power pole. A police spokeswoman said nobody was injured