Up to 95 homes in Auckland's Franklin Rd now have their Xmas lights on at night, says the founder of the annual spectacle.

A seven-year-old girl who went missing in Palmerston North last night has been found safe and well, police say.

A post-mortem has found a teen whose body was found in a Wainuiomata creek last night drowned.

Police are treating the death of a teenager whose body was found in a creek in Wainuiomata as unexplained.

Auckland stand-up comedian Ben Hurley gives insight into his reading preferences.

Flooding in NSW looks set to cost the state and federal governments billions of dollars in relief.

Labour leader Phil Goff today called for Botany MP' Pansy Wong's breach of international travel rebate rules to be referred to the Auditor-General, after she was cleared of any serious misuse of the perk today.

Three people have been hit by buses on a Wellington street since it was made two-way on Sunday.

Just how influential are the movies in transforming audiences into potential tourists?