You may have thought Auckland house prices were bad, but check out these palatial homes from around the world that fetched huge sums.

A teen and her three young brothers have been gassed to death by a lethal pesticide sprayed under their Texas home.

Explore these wilderness areas and you'll find a staggering variety of animal species.

The last anyone heard of Brandon Lawson was in a terrified 911 call as he fled from unknown attackers after his vehicle broke down on a Texas highway.

Cheeseburgers, steak and peanut butter cups formed some of the last meals of the 19 men killed on America's death row in 2016. WARNING: Disturbing content.

A high school teacher has been arrested after a Snapchat flirtation with a student led to beer pong, nude selfies and sex.

Te Awamutu woman has met the love of her life living 11,711km away in Texas while playing a mobile farming game.

Isidro Zarate intervened when he saw a man pulling a woman's hair and beating her in a Texas parking lot. The man did, but only to reach for his gun.

Two Texas students were reprimanded after they performed a skit portraying the assassination of President-elect Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka, has her own dedicated army of followers - or should we say clones? They're spending big to look just like their idol.

If you've just been groped on a plane, but it's too late for the captain to kick the offending passenger off the flight, what would you do?

A lawyer who injured nine in a shooting rampage in Houston was wearing Nazi emblems and was carrying nearly 2600 rounds of ammunition in a Porsche.

A female shooter has injured a classmate before turning the gun on herself at a high school in Texas, according to local reports.

It's unanimous ... on Twitter: Dallas police chief David Brown should join the race to become the next president of the United States.

A Texas mum who shot and killed her two daughters posted a message on Facebook in March demanding the right to keep semiautomatic handguns.

Two people have been killed and several others injured in a shooting outside a Texas dance studio.

Torrential rains in Texas have deluged hundreds of homes, led to prison evacuations and killed at least 16 people in the past week, US officials say.

Sweetwater, Texas, has a big annual event. The centrepiece is a bloody hunt: thousands of Western diamond rattlesnakes are caught, milked, and skinned.

Winston Aldworth flies aboard NZ28, the inaugural Auckland-to-Houston flight.

The brash, bold Texas of JR Ewing's day is still there, but is now overlaid with a veneer of culture, writes Samuel Muston.

Ewan McDonald sips the flavours of the Old South in Texas and New Orleans.

The Texan capital has an outlaw spirit that makes it the perfect place to party, writes Ewan McDonald.

Bigger, better, busier - that's Texas, writes Megan Singleton.

There's plenty more to Dallas than JFK, finds Megan Singleton.

Sample the cowboy lifestyle - hire a car and visit the best that Houston and nearby Texas Hill Country have to offer, says Tim Lamb.

Ahead of Air New Zealand beginning its direct flights to Houston in December, Ewan McDonald visits the space base.

The death of a black woman three days after being arrested in a routine traffic stop has once again put the spotlight on US police.

In Dallas, Winston Aldworth finds there's still plenty of heat in the conspiracy theories.

In the wake of an incident which saw a police officer pull a gun on a teenager at a Texas pool party, Jeff Wiltse recounts the long history of racial tension at America's swimming pools.