Kiwis pay more than buyers elsewhere for some of the most popular consumer goods, a global report shows. So which products will burn a hole in your pocket?

Slow but steady wins the race when it comes to exercising for weight loss, according to a new study out of Australia.

Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse says it is time to decriminalise natural cannabis because it is safer than the synthetic versions that were banned last week.

He's the player many coaches would love to have. But 135kg, 18-year-old Tongan-born prop Taniela Tupou can't represent NZ at schoolboy rugby level.

An Auckland restaurant serving duck eggs with developing embryo has been cleared by the SPCA for possible cruelty against unhatched ducklings.

It won't matter if you spill red wine on the shag-pile carpet and white sofas in this $2.65 million luxury launch — it just slides right off the specially made fabric.

Views from a businessman, parents, migrants, homebuyers, a retiree and a student.

People will always blame the weatherman when the forecast is wrong. For WeatherWatch head analyst Philip Duncan, it's part and parcel of what he does.

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Solange Knowles reportedly lashed out at Jay Z because he has failed to help boost her career.

A man who died during a visit to his parents' grave on Mother's Day was a former soldier, truck driver, father of four - and one of the original King Cobras gang members.

Willie Apiata has moved on from his job helping at-risk youth - and is now being handled by Richie McCaw's management team.

Deep in a glacier crevasse with a broken arm and ankle, Sabine Hellenbrandt expected to take her last breath trapped in the ice. Then she heard members of the South Westland Alpine Cliff Rescue call to her.

A community group wants what it says is Auckland City's deepest quarry filled in before new houses are built in the pit deep below ground level.

Police are willing to enter talks with the two biggest gangs in the country about turning their backs on crime as Black Power and Mongrel Mob leaders meet to broker a peace plan.

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Inner-city suburbs out of your reach? Maybe not. A new data-crunching tool helps renters to look at how affordable their living situation is when transport cost is factored in.

Six Game of Thrones addicts give their thoughts on last night's epic sixth episode of the fourth season, The Laws of Gods and Men.

Tim Finn, OBE, has been making great Kiwi music for more than four decades, first with Split Enz, then in Crowded House and as a solo artist.

Kiwi wine connoisseurs may be in for a new trend - blending their own wine.

A Salafist imam who taught two men who were stopped from leaving New Zealand to join the war in Syria says he is no terrorist.

Two British health researchers are gearing up to challenge New Zealanders' unusually high tolerance of what many countries consider a social evil - inequality.

The maker of Shortland Street has been bought by overseas broadcasting giants in a $1 billion deal.

A Ferrari driver who died yesterday after hitting a wall on a race track was estimated to have been driving at 190km/h at the time.

Clothing retailer Just Jeans has voluntarily recalled four children's garments containing potentially cancer-causing dyes.

Here are the most read news stories today, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about tomorrow.

From airplane banner banter to scary World Cup ads, Daily Shorts looks at the light-hearted side of sport.

The sons of a Muslim imam who was barred from his own mosque for allegedly teaching extreme Islam have denied their father is an advocate for jihad, or holy war.

A survey off the North Island's East Coast has uncovered a huge hidden network of frozen methane and methane gas.