Traffic will gain clearer runs to and from Auckland Airport from a $140 million accelerated project to turn George Bolt Memorial Drive into a full motorway.

A scorpion has been destroyed after being found inside the tent of a traveller coming back into Auckland from Mexico at Auckland Airport.

After negotiations with the FMA, both Kiwibank and ASB are finally set to kill their respective zombie KiwiSaver schemes.

Stephen Fry addresses the "messy subject" of "drugs and dependency" in his latest autobiography, More Fool Me.

KTVA reporter Charlo Greene quit her job on live TV last night, outing herself as the owner of an Alaskan cannabis club and declaring "f*** it, I quit".

Fashion is about self-expression, individuality, it is a way of communicating with the world around you.

A healthy democracy needs two parties capable of providing good government. New Zealand is well served by National and Labour.

The vote on changing the New Zealand flag could happen next year, Prime Minister John Key says.

Controversial senator equates sharia law with acts of terrorism in a much-criticised television interview.

Taylor Swift has spoken about her friendship with Lorde, calling her a "very special girl".

Inspired by the last requests of death row inmates and allowing diners to "enjoy the idea of a last meal, without the nasty execution bit," Death Row Dinners has caused a stir.

Up on last time, but one of the worst voter turnouts this century.

Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has made an impassioned plea for Britain to stop blocking the flow of young singers into opera houses so the talents of the future can flower.

Jacqui Lambie, the straight-talking, combative Tasmanian, is shaking up federal politics and injecting a breath of the real world into Canberra.

Conservative Party leader Colin Craig says he is in politics for life and will not be deterred by another failed election bid, which came at significant personal expense.

For the changes in the Labour's rules which David Cunliffe was party to and which he promoted in order to undermine Shearer could end up destroying his own leadership.

What the public wanted to hear from him was a large measure of mea culpa. What it got was Cunliffe blaming everyone but himself.

In a frosty and combative interview this morning, David Cunliffe admitted the party's worst result since 1922 was 'not great' but 'not all bad either'.

Photos showing an apparently nude Kim Kardashian are among a group of images that have appeared online in what appears to be a second leak.

A girl whose thumb was left dangling from her hand after a freak washing machine accident has a crack surgical team - and leeches - to thank for saving the digit.

After months of trying to set the agenda for the election, Kim Dotcom last night saw the aspirations of his political party crash and burn.

Tax cuts are coming for most New Zealanders ... but you're going to have to wait for three years.

An indisputable triumph for one man; a total and unmitigated disaster for his many enemies.

Election night celebrations and commiserations as the results come rolling in

China's high-spending gamblers are looking to bet outside Macau amid a government assault on corruption and extravagance.

Theirs is an unlikely story: a bunch of senior citizens from Waiheke — ranging in age from 65 to 95 — who formed a hip-hop dance crew then went to the world champs in Vegas. They talk to Alan Perrott about moonwalking, twerking and feeling alive again.

Leading travel guide places two NZ hotels in top 100 out of 4000 global entries.