The leader of the Internet Party talks about her nervousness, her wardrobe and the Dotcom mansion.

When her daughter was diagnosed with a life-threatening peanut allergy, Kiwi mum Lydia Monin turned her home into a nut-free zone. But life outside is a never-ending risk assessment, she says.

The recipe for Marmite could be rejigged to make it healthier in response to new Government plans to introduce nutrition rankings for all packaged food.

Auckland has been hit by power outages after a storm pushed across most of the region this evening.

Motorists should fill up now if they want to beat the tax going up on petrol on 1 July, says the AA.

A church which advertised that a prayer session could heal health problems including "incurable diseases" has been told to remove the advertisement.

With half of the World Cup teams heading home, we look back on the group stage of the 2014 World Cup and which teams and players stood out.

Breast cancer screening for women under 50 should stop in light of growing questions around how beneficial the practice is, health researchers say.

A new system which labels food using a star-based nutrition scale could mislead consumers, a nutritionist says.

Investigators say the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile abused victims aged from 5 to 75 - and may even have performed sex acts on the dead.

Chlamydia rates in Kiwis are on the decline, but New Zealand still has a much higher rate of infection than Australia.

The owners of a house for sale in West Auckland have taken open-plan living to a new level, inserting an "en suite" complete with toilet into a bedroom, with no dividing walls.

Sally Ridge lost her legal battle to gain half of ex-partner Adam Parore's business and was told to pay costs of more than $100,000.

War hero Willie Apiata drew on his own experiences as a fatherless child to help launch a foundation close to his heart.

A grey 6.6m Comsub, which the owner says has been used to explore waters near Half Moon Bay and Waiheke Island for the past few years, is for sale.

Having grown up in Christchurch and attended a largely Pakeha high school, Leonie Wethey finds she learns as much from the predominantly Pasifika students at Tamaki College as they learn from her.

Sally Ridge's appeal against a High Court decision has stumbled after she failed to pay $5880 as security for costs.

If you think buying property in New Zealand isn't cheap, you're right. We take a look at the top seven most expensive cities.

A Swiss zoo which caused a public outcry by euthanising a healthy baby brown bear because it was being bullied by its father has said the cub will now be preserved and displayed to educate schoolchildren.

It's probably around the two-hour mark of this big, bloated, bombastic spectacle of a sequel that you might start thinking to yourself, why are we doing this again?

It has long been associated with guilt and heartache, but a new study suggests casual sex can have a positive effect - for some people.

Here are a few examples of how to make small and positive changes to your current workplace habits. See which ones apply to you and tackle each one week by week.

Auckland Big Day Out promoter Campbell Smith is confident the event will return to Auckland in 2016 after missing next year.

"While I've yet to experience parenting a teenager, I can report that my approach to children and alcohol was cautious from the outset."

This Friday at 4pm, the music television channel which was previously known as C4 becomes The Edge TV - a TV channel tying into national radio station The Edge.

Jon Toogood was leaving his central Auckland hotel and walking towards York Street Studios with one thing on his mind - the new Shihad album. Then something stopped him in his tracks.

Winston Aldworth flies EK413 from New Zealand to Australia.