A violent hail and thunder storm has caused two car crashes and left the ground "white like snow" in Wellington. Police have said the storm after 1:30pm had been the catalyst for two crashes...

Forty years in a blokey, sometimes unkind profession hasn't left a dent in the genial exterior of rugby's 'old bear'

Taranaki wrestled the Ranfurly Shield away from Southland in a double dose of disappointment for the Stags.

Taranaki have climbed to the top of the ITM Cup Premiership table with a 26-23 victory over Tasman at Yarrow Stadium.

Taranaki inflicted yet more doubt and uncertainty on Auckland with a ITM Cup win at New Plymouth today.

The operator of the Tui offshore Taranaki oil and gas field says probable reserves are between nine and 11 million barrels of oil short of the 50.5 million barrels previously thought.

A 12-year-old boy suffered serious burns when a petrol container he was carrying burst into flames and then exploded. He's been flown by rescue helicopter to Waikato Hospital where his condition is described as...

Police say 'a great deal' of work had gone into ensuring the safety of a woman taken hostage by a her former partner, who had just finished serving time for trying to cut her throat.

The man shot dead by police yesterday had just got out of jail for trying to cut the throat of the woman he held hostage.

A man police shot dead after he took a woman hostage at gunpoint at a Taranaki Hotel overnight was released from jail last week. Police this afternoon named him as Anthony Ratahi, 46, from Stratford.

A new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.