Tomorrow Paul Little will be sitting in the gold section of the Staples Center in Downtown LA with his fingers crossed.

A former top gay rugby player says life inside NZ's NPC environment was "suffocating and emotionally draining" and a gay All Black represents an important "last hurdle" for the sport.

A misdiagnosis led to a woman continuing to give her partner medicine that masked the presence of meningococcal disease, which killed him days later.

NZ and India produced one of the most epic one-day encounters on these shores with a tied third match, meaning the series stays alive into the final two games.

As the nation heads back to work after the summer break, it’s time to consider how many of us really need to be in the office at all.

In a case with similarities to the Roast Busters, two teens had sex with a girl who was "almost comatose" from alcohol, but still say it wasn't rape as they were not violent.

A state primary school has recommended that children have an iPad for the upcoming school year, as an increasing number of schools add tablets or laptops to their back-to-school lists.

The PM's about-turn on working with Peters was utterly predictable, writes John Armstrong.

New "executive" and "expert" positions in schools could have wide-reaching effects - including more-energised teachers and reduced competition between schools.

Labour MP Jacinda Ardern is putting a different spin on the phrase "on the record" by agreeing to do a slot as a DJ at the Laneway Festival on Monday night.

Kiwis are an outward-looking, globe-trotting bunch who want to explore the world, with many planning to move overseas for work, new research shows.

Police are trying to track down the owner of an Auckland rental property bought for almost $1 million last year which was destroyed by the young tenants.

Comedy video website Funny or Die, co-founded by Hollywood star Will Ferrell, has partnered with Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows.

Motorists wrongly ticketed in multi-occupancy vehicle lanes want Auckland Transport to use better detection tools such as thermal imaging.

Paul Henry's resurrection - a late-night TV3 current affairs show, which begins next week. He will not be watching what he says.

Scientists expect quake activity in Wairarapa for weeks after yesterday's 6.2 shake.

Newspapers are at the coalface of the media revolution this year as they push ahead with the switch in focus from print publications to online, writes John Drinnan.

Tuesday was a good day for Josef Roberts - he made about 30 million bucks.

Authorities missed many red flags before Bradley and Ellen Livingstone were killed by their father in their Dunedin home.

The small Dunedin school that slain siblings Bradley and Ellen Livingstone attended is working with their mother to plan a lasting memorial to their short lives.

Some holidays are hard work, but, as Danielle Wright finds out, that can be the point.

Clementine Benjamin and Lewis Wallace are young, in love, and expecting. Clem, 25, thought she didn't want kids so when she fell pregnant after a few months with Lewis, it came as a shock.

After deciding to air the Grammys seven hours late, TVNZ bowed to common sense. Nothing less was really going to suffice for such a momentous occasion for the local music industry.

She grew up in Whangarei as a ballerina and a vegetarian, but 23-year-old Emma Phillips is back as a Mandarin-speaking acrobat who loves eating duck heads.

Snoop Dogg, Lion or Zilla? The big question hanging over the Big Day Out headliner's sideshow tonight seemed to be exactly which version of the hip-hop chameleon would show up.

NZ's High Commissioner to the UK is still living in a $390k-a-year rented home in one of London's most upmarket districts while the official residence is for sale.

Auckland bus drivers have been given a taste of road rage from a new perspective yesterday - the handlebars of a fleet of hire bikes.