The government is being criticised for letting its relationships with Pacific islands drift, as China tries to boost its influence in the region. Read...

Auckland`s gridlock nightmare is getting worse with a new report showing travel times are taking longer on the city`s motorways and main roads.The report, from the Automobile Association, said the current approach to tackling gridlock... Read...

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A Wellington company is frustrated it didn`t get the chance to bid for the contract to build two new electric ferries in Auckland, which the Government has granted $27 million for.The Wellington Electric Boat Building Company (WEBBC)... Read...

The doctors and nurses on Shortland Street have survived serial killers, viral outbreaks and volcanoes over the show`s 30-year existence, but the biggest existential threat they face lies in the current chaos of the media industry.The... Read...

As Kiwi health officials prepare for a possible monkeypox outbreak in Aotearoa New Zealand, the associate health minister is reassuring people the disease is unlikely to spawn a major local epidemic. This week on In the Loop podcast,... Read...

A man who left a 3-year-old alone in a car for two hours says he fell asleep while getting a massage for a sore back.Hamish Mark Bain had a sore back before a return trip to Hamilton from Auckland, so he booked a massage before... Read...

A spate of damaging extreme weather events - including three big deluges in recent months - has left even MetService meteorologists surprised.Today marks three years since the national forecaster introduced its `red warnings` ... Read...

`Because it is so hauntingly similar to what happened at Sandy Hook School, it hit closer to home.` Read...

Second seed Daniil Medvedev moves into the third round of the French Open by beating Serbia`s Laslo Djere. Read...