The Latest Breaking News from New Zealand

With six months to go until the big kick-off, over half a million tickets have been sold for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

Women's football standard-bearers the United States are in Wellington for the first friendly of a World Cup year, co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

A famously animal-shaped building in rural Waikato is up for lease - just like the hopes of the tourism sector in general

We cross live to the centre of the universe

Tokyo’s dramatic and hawkish turn towards defence in the face of China's growing influence is likely to have ramifications for New Zealand. Geoffrey Miller explains. 

Political opposites Ian Powell and Heather Roy take the temperature of the country’s unitary health body.

Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, says a future Labour government will consider measures to incrementally ban smoking. Labour is watching New Zealand, which legislated to criminalise every potential smoker born after 2009. That generation will never legally smoke.

Climate crisis could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for half of languages spoken by the end of the century, say linguists, as coastal communities are forced to migrate

Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists.