Holidaymakers have been warned not to swim at a popular beach on the Coromandel Peninsula after reports of multiple shark sightings. Safeswim issued a safety warning for Whiritoa Beach today, advising ...

The index has risen more than 12% for the year and is heading for its best performance in four years after rising 13.92% in ...

Each week our cartoonists at the New Zealand Herald tackle the big stories of the day.

North Shore police are appealing for help to find a man after a woman was dragged 10 metres inside a mall carpark while trying to retrieve her stolen handbag from a thief’s car. A police spokesperson ...

A person has been airlifted to hospital with serious injuries after a crash on State Highway 31 in Waikato this afternoon. Emergency services responded to the two-vehicle crash on Kawhia Rd in Hauturu ...

Breakers point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright has been charged with grabbing, pushing or mishandling a game official in ...

Auckland police say they have caught three men with $2700 of shoplifted loot, after a sticky-fingered Boxing Day spree. Staff ...

People are being warned away from the water at a popular Rotorua lake because of a potentially toxic algal bloom. Health New ...

Opie Bosson, one of the greatest jockeys New Zealand has produced, has today announced his retirement from riding. Bosson, 44 ...

A man dropped off at Dargaville Hospital with serious injuries has undergone surgery. Police were advised at 10.40pm ...

But in a dramatic fall from grace, Kivalu was caught red-handed with two King Cobra gang members unpacking nearly 30kg of methamphetamine he had imported inside frozen vegetables from Tonga.

A person has been critically injured after a large brawl broke out in Ngāruawāhia. A police spokesperson said two locations had been cordoned off after the fight which involved “several people”. The ...