Presenter Darren McMullen won over by Wellington’s charms.

New evidence has found a health condition that causes the heart to accelerate rapidly upon standing up is affecting educated, young women more than anyone else.

The BBC is producing "crap" comedy and would not have the courage to commission Monty Python's Flying Circus today, John Cleese has claimed.

A couch potato lifestyle is linked to a significantly greater risk of certain cancers as well as heart disease and diabetes, research has shown.

Children at an Auckland primary school have won a promise from four political parties to let children help to run the country.

Not long after the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world's attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost aircraft.

Kiwi pop star Lorde tweeted that, after nearly 30 years together, her dad Vic O'Connor proposed to her mum Sonja Yelich with a diamond ring.

Eating well is simpler than it seems, says Dave Shaw. Don't be confused by common diet myths and fallacies - we debunk a few of the biggest.

Still recovering from last night's Game of Thrones finale? If you're still piecing it together, here's a wrap of everything that happened ...

Formula One legend Michael Schumacher is no longer in a coma and has been discharged from the French hospital where he has been treated since December.

Pebbles Hooper, the daughter of World designers Francis Hooper and Denise L'Estrange Corbet, is an artist and gossip writer who grew up travelling the world.

Noise, vibration, trouble sleeping, turning a popular part of Auckland's waterfront and the busy Albert St into a construction site for years and pedestrian and vehicle disruption.

Game of Thrones producers say tonight's finale will be the best yet. Will Tyrion lose his head? Will John Snow kill Mance? Here's our recap of the questions Thrones viewers are probably thinking right now ...

A security guard criticised for a hard-hitting tackle of a streaker during Saturday All Blacks game was "100 per cent" in the right, Forsyth Barr Stadium management says.

The last time the World Cup came to Brazil in 1950, some 200,000 people are estimated to have piled in to the Estadio Maracana, to see the hosts shocked by rivals Uruguay.

A birthday card's 53-year journey has come to an end.

An airline has apologised after one of its cabin crew refused to allow a mother to take her toddler to the toilet, resulting in the youngster urinating in her seat.

The richest 10 per cent of New Zealanders are wealthier than the rest of the population combined, according to figures cited by Oxfam NZ.

Ben Smith can sit on the fence as much as he likes in regard to his positional fate in Hamilton, but the All Black selectors won't.

A homely touch in the form of a community garden set amid industrial surroundings is taking root at Wynyard Central.

Kerre McIvor writes: Do the crew of Team NZ really want to be known as New Zealand's highest paid beneficiaries?

Farm manager Jeff Peek hoists a golden gumboot aloft in triumph after he was yesterday named Rural Bachelor of the Year.

Oh, go on, you know what you really want to know about the English comic actress, Su Pollard, is what she was wearing. I know I did.

It’s almost a decade since TV3 decided to take on TV One at 7pm with a daily current affairs show. To celebrate Campbell Live’s 10th year, Greg Dixon talks to John Campbell.

The average New Zealand house price rose by $98 a day or nearly $700 a week over the past year, a new analysis shows.

We might not be any good at the game, and those who follow it from here might like its culture in England, but they should not pretend we are part of it, writes John Roughan.