The Latest Breaking News from New Zealand

The Labour leader’s approval has dropped to 35% as the country wrestles with the Omicron Covid variant and rising inflation

The fire at overlooked natural treasure Kaimaumau wetland began before Christmas, and it’s still ablaze.

It's not just filtering, but fit and fraud that Kiwis need to take into account when mask shopping.

Will it be a Kiwi woman who finally tops the podium at a Winter Olympics? Merryn Anderson gives a run-down of our strong female contingent at the Beijing games starting next week.

This week's biggest-selling NZ books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias.

The Winter Olympic Games in Beijing are just days away, but the Biden administration’s campaign to orchestrate a diplomatic boycott, so far joined by only a few allies, is already failing to meet certain expectations. It seems as if the criterion for success was to get a sizeable group of…

The nation accepts a big psychological change, one expert says, as people prepare for more cases than they have ever seen before

Eddie Jones has backed England captain Owen Farrell to come back “better than ever” from his latest injury and thrive during the latter stages of his career, just like New Zealand legend Dan Carter.

Small man-made homes for the endangered wētā, which can weigh as much as a sparrow, are popping up in gardens across the country

Denis Bounsall survived three different assault landings in eleven months, including D-Day, and won a Distinguished Conduct Medal for bravery. He passed away in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 100

The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee has taken evidence on free trade deals the UK has struck with Australia and New Zealand.