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 ...

Record monthly rainfall in Tairāwhiti was followed by dangerous high wind leaving sections of State Highway 2 impassable.