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A Hyundai light electric vehicle has been quietly touring New Zealand’s roads for the past six months gathering data around battery life to help companies prepare a business case for a switch from combustion engines to EVs.

Tens of thousands of secondary teachers have walked off the job this year in a fight for better pay and conditions. Just how bad is it?

Often overlooked in favour of rugby, American football is growing in NZ. Merryn Anderson catches up with one of the women on our first national flag football team.

OG Slipknot frontman Anders Colsefni will perform the Iowan band's 1996 album Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat in full on the Nu-Metal Mayhem tour in tribute to Joey Jordison and Paul Gray

Ryan Woodman is only 19 years old but speaks with the authority of a real leader

Sitting down with Antony Starr, who plays perhaps the most intriguing villain on current television as Homelander on Prime Video's "The Boys," is disconcerting. Homelander is an Aryan super-sociopath, a gleaming Mr. America with a license to kill. Starr, human-sized and chummy, sports fashionable chin scruff, one pair of glasses…

There's plenty of rugby to be played before the World Cup starts in September

On a bright, clear fall morning, the train from Wellington to Auckland clatters away from the rail station precisely as scheduled at 7:55. The temperature hovers coolly in the mid-50s, not at all cold, and quite typical for a Southern Hemisphere fall morning.

This isn’t the first time Tesla has gone through cold-weather testing, with a previous session held sometime in May on the company’s proving grounds in Alaska.

New Zealand's governing Labour party is trapped in a mire of blunders and bad news, the biggest of which might be the technical recession confirmed last week.

The first test of the 2023 Ashes is well underway at Edgbaston in Birmingham, featuring England’s aggressive “Bazball” style of play (named after New Zealand-born coach Brendan “Baz” McCullum) and a surprise early declaration by the hosts at the end of the first day. This invited an Australian fightback inspired…