Whanganui officer cadet in British navy
Whanganui 21-year-old Patrick Richardson has celebrated his formal commissioning as a Royal Navy Officer on parade at Britannia Royal
Whanganui 21-year-old Patrick Richardson has celebrated his formal commissioning as a Royal Navy Officer on parade at Britannia Royal
Labour leader Andrew Little has downplayed his comments that the party could hold a referendum on decriminalising cannabis if in Government.
A new study by Victoria University student Alicia Sudden says Work and Income is pushing many beneficiaries into jobs that don't last.
A leading climate scientist has welcomed a new 20-year Government "roadmap" that singles out climate change as an environmental research priority for New Zealand.
University workers look forward to their community when Casey Meyer is their driver.
Students think they may have answer to homelessness: beehives on city roofs.
Kieran Carnegie's Master's research is helping find a solution for simulator sickness, a phenomena where people feel sick when immersed in environments such as the computer-generated worlds of virtual reality (VR).
In 2012, Victoria University launched a new postgraduate programme in Computer Graphics, developed in conjunction with movie visual effects company Weta Digital, games company PikPok and former advanced technology company Fingertapps
Bachelor of Law students are looking at the love life of New Zealand's most famous bachelor to help shape their legal minds.
A team of scientists drilling deep into the South Island's high-risk Alpine Fault have been intrigued to encounter unusually high temperatures just several hundred metres below ground.
A team of 100 scientists and engineers has begun drilling a 1.3km-deep borehole into the Alpine Fault to gather information about the inner workings of the fault line.
A 3D-printed nose guard has earned a Wellington student the top prize in the New Zealand leg of a global design competition.
A former Victoria University student who felt unsafe on city streets has developed a smartphone app that keeps tabs on its user in dangerous situations.
New Kiwi research has proven that Facebook "trolls" aren't so willing to be as cruel in everyday life.
Valuable books are thought to be safe after a fire at Victoria University's library in Wellington this morning was sparked in an acetylene tank.
An new interactive tool developed by a Victoria University professor in conjunction with Treasury lets people address the Government's long-term financial pressures.
Itchy, odorous plaster casts could be banished to the realms of childhood memory thanks to a Kiwi design students's radical concept for a 3D-printed exoskeletal cast.
NZ's top climate change scientists have rallied together to slam a visiting sceptic who is touring the country to proclaim global warming as a myth that should be ignored.
All eight of New Zealand's universities are being taken to the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal for refusing to agree to an increased annual licence fee which allows lecturers to copy authors' work for students.
The absence of out gay players perpetuates the appearance that rugby is a game for "red-blooded" heterosexual men, writes Dean Knight, and reinforces the barriers to participation by gays at all levels of the game.
New Zealand universities have spent more than $250,000 dishing out honorary degrees to celebrities and visiting dignitaries, a Herald investigation into the eight institutions has found.