Rachael Beardsall says she and her partner have had to go without to ensure their three children do not starve. So when she heard

An elderly woman was lucky to escape serious injury yesterday when her car was hit from behind.

Shocked family members have gathered in mourning after a woman died in a car that crashed down a driveway in West Auckland.

It used to be the thing of the old Western movies where the rancher combating rustlers stealing his stock. But similar scenarios are

Fissure, a new kiwi chick, hatched despite a huge hole in its egg, after staff patched the egg up with masking tape.

More than 520 new jobs and $111 million of capital investment could be pumped into Tauranga by prospective new businesses.

Waiouru has flushed away its competition, and taken out the award for the country's best public toilets.

Cigarette thieves who raided a Bay of Islands dairy are thought to be the same offenders who rammed a pursuing police car after drawing

Median weekly earnings in Hawke's Bay are surging ahead of other North Island regions.

Lobby groups opposed to offshore oil drilling feel they influenced Statoil's decision to pull out of the Reinga Basin - but the Government

The weekend's freak storm in Napier and Hastings - when hail fell, and blue skies darkened - could herald a turbulent week ahead

The Waikato dairy farmer who found a security camera in his milking shed says he thinks students or "greenies" are behind it.

A person had to be cut from their wrecked car after a collision north of Wellington this morning.

Cross your fingers and toes that a tentative forecast for a warm Labour Weekend comes true.

Warm air flowing from across the Ditch will push temperatures up over the whole country this weekend.

A boutique lodge on the fringe of Northland's Waipoua Forest has been named New Zealand's best hospitality business.

Northland MP Winston Peters has cited a Whangarei business as just one example of immigrants ignoring New Zealand's employment laws

A dead cattle or dairy beast may have been lying metres upstream from a popular Ngunguru swimming hole for two weeks before the stench

IN THE GROOVE: Thousands of revellers packed in front of a sound stage on Mount Main Beach to welcome in the New Year. PHOTO/FILE

Ani Tamaki says while one school lunch might not seem like much, it can mean a lot for those who are struggling to afford food for

While they look more like a discarded party dress than a toxic bomb, beachgoers are being warned not to go poking around underneath these jellyfish.

Heartfelt Facebook messages, donations and gifts from around the country have been flooding in for the elderly victim of a daylight robbery.

Tauranga job listings have seen a huge spike in the past three months and businesses are struggling to fill vacancies - with one employer

Students from an Auckland high school have been captured on video fighting - as teachers stand nearby.

Neighbour says Clare Bremner had "big concerns" about her son Ross two weeks before she was killed.

Source: YouTube: 100% Pure New Zealand. Master carver Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell shares the story behind New Zealand's remarkable Mine Bay Māori Rock Carvings.

As an elderly woman was giving $2 to a young man, he grabbed her wallet, leaving her hand bruised as he ran off.

It will be a wet start to the week for the top of the North Island and eastern areas today, however, the rest of the country is expected to stay pretty dry.

Police have found a Lower Hutt man who went missing earlier today.

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