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.

"This buggy signifies everything that ended my happy low cost child free life."

Broadcaster Tony Veitch married his longtime partner Lisa Bryan last Friday in a private, intimate ceremony at Mangere's Kelliher Estate on Puketutu Island.

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?

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.

Lorde's failure to land an Academy Award nomination has drawn the ire of Oscar-watchers and US music critics.

Summer Diary wraps this week, so we sat down with three of New Zealand's biggest acting exports, Danielle Cormack, Anna Hutchison and Sara Wiseman, to talk about their holiday exploits and why they chose to come home to Auckland.

As if we needed more opportunities to embarrass ourselves on Facebook, the world's largest social network is abuzz with a new and questionably worthwhile game.

The former student from Hamilton, won Miss Waikato in 1996 and was runner-up in Miss New Zealand the following year.

New year, new look for New Zealand golf pro Lydia Ko, who has ditched her signature glasses and hair tie for a new online bio pic.

More than a third of Kiwis believe fizzy and other sugary drinks should be taxed, a Southern Cross Health Society survey indicates.

Naya Rivera chose to share her beliefs on ethnicity and hygiene out loud and very publicly when she made an appearance on US chat show The View this week.

People who work longer are more likely to seek solace in alcohol, new research finds.

Scrapping over who is best-suited to pay someone else's mortgage isn't the ideal start to the year, but it's a January ritual for many Auckland renters.

At just 17 Angela Dotchin won fame on Shortland Street, playing receptionist Kirsty Knight for six years from the first episode in 1992.

A video of a man riding a trolley down Auckland's Queen Street while being followed by police has been viewed more than 3.25 million times on Facebook.

After a long wait, most high school students will be finding themselves face to face with their year's work as NCEA exam results are published today.