Lorde has revealed adults don't always like to take orders from her, because she's a teenage girl.

It won’t be a quiet Christmas for the powers that be at TV3, who are scrambling to prepare for Paul Henry’s new multi-platform breakfast show next year.

When is the council, Government, SIS and NZ judiciary going to wake up and move Christmas Day into winter where it belongs?

Jason White, the touring guitarist of pop punk three-piece Green Day, has been diagnosed with tonsil cancer.

The fat has fallen off them, they are feeling fitter and they're fuelled up with knowledge on nutrition and health.

Sir Bob Jones has preached caution over the hype surrounding his former charge Joseph Parker.

The 18-year-old artist, whose career has gone from strength to strength this year, swapped her trademark dark lipstick for a more ethereal look in Stella magazine.

Hundreds of smokers around New Zealand participated in the Stoptober campaign to quit smoking.

Only 20 per cent of people near retirement surveyed passed a quiz about the basics of retirement planning.

He fronts a conservative political party, but Epsom electorate MP David Seymour, the leader of the Act Party, was far from quiet and measured when he got into a Twitter war of words.

Since early settler days and gold rush fever they've been the next stop on the dusty road. A place to hang your hat, quench your thirst, and make new mates.

Sam Smith, Taylor Swift and Iggy Azalea are among artists nominated for next year's Grammy Awards.

Kiwi singer Lorde has distanced herself from a remix of The Hanging Tree, sung by Jennifer Lawrence, for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One movie.

A pregnant woman has told anti-abortion protesters to stop "judging and filming" women visiting an abortion clinic in London.

Bono "can't move" for "a couple of months" after sustaining a number of injuries in a bicycle accident.

A seven-year-old girl who was born with learning difficulties because her mother drank heavily while pregnant is not entitled to criminal injuries compensation.

New Zealand's population is tipped to age at a faster rate than our Australian neighbours.

Bill Murray wants most child actors to be "taken out and shot".

Emirates has unveiled details of its more than half a billion dollar "liquor investment" programme.

Shelley Bridgeman lists ten advertisements from 2014 we'd rather forget.

The official NZ casting call for Disney's first Polynesian princess Moana has opened - and sparked huge interest.

The Heineken Open is famous for punching above its weight - but next month, the tournament will move into heavyweight territory.

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An organisation that houses Maori and Pasifika students so they are in zone for Auckland Grammar School will run a similar scheme for a nearby girls' school.

Wearing a T-shirt which celebrated the life of her late boyfriend Connor Morris, Millie Elder-Holmes has described her biggest challenge ahead of her Fight for Life bout on Saturday.