An interactive map reveals the change in commuting patterns in New Zealand since 2001.

Being world famous in New Zealand is all very well, but a new, fresh-faced wave of New Zealand actors is choosing to be world famous in Australia.

An episode for the upcoming season of Germany's Next Top Model will be filmed in Auckland next week.

"Potatoes, thank goodness! That's a good start," former Mythbusters host Grant Imahara says as he goes on to reveal the 13 other ingredients contained in the US version of the McDonald's fry.

Serial pranker George Clooney has struck again. Actress Evan Rachel Wood was pranked by her Ides of March co-star George Clooney at the Venice Film Festival in Italy.

Recent research suggests carbohydrate-rich foods may not be helping exercise recovery as previously thought and their potential link with metabolic diseases are raising questions.

A Kickstarter campaign by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi to raise $400k to self-distribute their vampire movie What We Do in the Shadows in the US has been criticised.

Tree campaigners are vowing to go to court if Auckland's roading authority presses on with plans to chop down six 80-year-old pohutukawa.

Lindsay Lohan has been hospitalised in London with a rare virus.

A Channel 7 tennis commentator has caused outrage at the Australian Open after asking Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard to "twirl" on live TV.

'The irony is unbelievable.' A breastfeeding conference in Scotland told nursing mothers it 'wasn't appropriate' to breastfeed at the event.

A rare and terrifying frilled shark has been pulled from the water by fishermen near Lakes Entrance in Victoria, Australia.

Couples in a rural town in Denmark have agreed to try to have more babies over the next few years as part of a deal with the council to keep public services running.

One of Auckland Zoo's two siamang gibbons has been put down, ending an 11-year life in which he was believed to have been severely depressed.

When Miss Israel beamed her Crest-commercial grin for a selfie with Miss Lebanon last week, she likely didn't know the Instagram would become international headline news.

Kale, quinoa and kombucha ruled the trendy healthful-food scene in 2014. But what will take center stage in 2015?

The actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films has been taken to hospital suffering from pneumonia.

The idea that a woman could carry a child to a full-term delivery without knowing she is pregnant is mind-boggling. It has to be denial, or worse, right?

It's nominated for six Oscars but American Sniper has become a laughing stock for its use of a fake baby.

James Blunt has written a scathing open letter to a British politician, branding him a "classist gimp" and a "prejudiced wazzock" for criticising the singer and Oscar-nominated actor Eddie Redmayne over their posh backgrounds.

You could be forgiven for judging yummy mummies as the most loathed women in the world. But this year, Grace Cormack is going to give up fit shaming.

The Police armed offender squad searched a house in the Auckland suburb of Panmure this morning looking for a man who fired a gun in an incident yesterday.

This is the miraculous moment a driver survived being crushed between two big rigs in a nightmare pileup on an icy freeway.

The number of people sleeping rough in Auckland's streets and parks has more than doubled as the city's housing crisis deepens.

Legend has it that a ghost walks the halls of the Rangiriri Tavern, known affectionately to locals and travellers alike as "the Rango".

An American lottery employee has been arrested in the latest twist of the strange case of an unclaimed US$14.4 million ($18.48 million) lottery jackpot.

We may have seen our first showers of 2015 yesterday, but the Auckland region is soaking up its driest start to summer in almost a decade.

Pack your togs and your walking shoes - Sculpture on the Gulf is back. Donna McIntyre gives the low-down on what's new at the exhibition this year.