Team New Zealand boss Grant Dalton believes America's Cup authorities have eliminated any possibility of a commercially funded team from entering the next event.

Women who are sick of buying clothes online only to find they don't suit or don't fit when they are delivered might have a new favourite website.

David Taite still does not accept he should have been shot by police officers in an incident near the Central Hawke's Bay township of Otane in October 2011.

Chamberlain Park's future as an 18-hole public golf course is under threat from a plan to open up the Auckland landmark for football fields, a playground and formal garden.

Young fans got to show off their skills in front of "a big NBA star" when basketballer Steven Adams appeared at a youth training session yesterday.

A landlord tried to rent a North Shore studio which had the kitchen, bathroom and laundry in the same room.

Police are warning parents to buckle in children after a toddler was discovered asleep in the footwell of a car and two siblings unrestrained on the back seat.

It would appear the saying "a girl in every port" is true for one young Australian naval officer who, while staying in Auckland, wrote love letters to women around the world.

Gregor Paul looks back at some of the iconic New Zealand vs England moments of the modern era.

British police searching for Madeleine McCann's remains are examining a hole in the ground about 300 metres from the resort she disappeared from.

A man has posted a video entitled 'Blatant Racism in Cheektowaga NY' on YouTube that appears to show a stranger making bilious racist comments and calling him a "nasty f***ing n****r".

A major new poll on Australians' view of themselves and the world has revealed a nation nervous at the rise of China

My dad had a country music band which played at the Waitemata Country Music Club. Mum played bass and my sister and I both sang.

Areal estate brochure dug out from 1996 features a seven-bedroom villa in Herne Bay - now the country's most expensive suburb. The asking price? Just $190,000.

Lorde is wielding her star power to thwart scalpers ripping off fans.

An Auckland doctor lost $300,000 after a Nigeria-based fraudster hacked into his father's email account and, posing as the father, asked for the transfer of family money.

Nearly 800 young children are believed to be buried in a mass grave beside a former home for unwed mothers in Ireland.

A British woman sailing near Indonesia at the time MH370 vanished says she saw a plane 'burning' and billowing smoke before it crashed.

Megatron could be the newest nickname for Hamilton if public and council reaction to new tongue-in-cheek billboards at the entrances to the city are anything to go by.

Move over Nigella - there are two new domestic goddesses in town.

NASA astronauts can now share their adventures and insights as they post photos and thoughts to Twitter. Here are eight of the best to follow.

Auckland houses might be regularly selling for more than a million dollars, but there are still houses, units or townhouses available for $250,000 or less around NZ.

A German astronaut who used to study at a NZ university has tweeted a picture of Banks Peninsula from high above Earth.

Computer users have been warned to take urgent action to protect themselves from a cyber virus pandemic, with up to a million computers in 12 countries infected since 2011.

If you're like most people, you might sometimes get the feeling your body isn't normal. But don't fret - it's all the virtual bodies around us that aren't.

Five Game of Thrones addicts give their thoughts on last night's eighth episode of season four, The Mountain and the Viper.

Kiwi TV pranksters Ben Boyce and Jono Pryor boosted their audience by millions when they gate-crashed the award-winning The Graham Norton Show.

Rolf Harris has been accused of deliberately lying to the jury in his child sex trial after video emerged of him at a celebrity sporting event in Cambridge in 1978.

Three Auckland fishermen chanced upon a great white shark during a day in the Hauraki Gulf over the long weekend.