The Latest Breaking News from NZ

New Zealand sporting teams have welcomed the government's relaxation of border rules, which could allow them to host matches at home this season.

If there was ever doubt NZ had gone up a blind climate alley by moving towards large plantings of pine trees, the latest international scientists' report has firmly laid that to rest

During the anti-lockdown protests at parliament last year, I was told about a 15-year-old who stopped to ask someone why they were crying. The person replied they were Jewish and had been upset by Nazi imagery used by some protesters, including swastikas chalked on the ground.

With Covid sweeping through NZ, Sonia Foote has found a global cycling race the virus can’t touch. Even better, it’s in her garage.

One Chinese printer rejected a history text saying the ancestors of Māori came from Taiwan; another insisted that 19th Century NZ dressmakers imported their silk from the People's Republic

After 6137 daily community COVID-19 infections and just eight cases at the border, the New Zealand government may switch up its border plan.

A bull in New Zealand somehow survived an 80 kilometre journey down a river and over a waterfall after extreme flooding in February.

Athletes around the globe, and here in NZ, are suffering the long-term physical effects of Covid. And some, like footballer Paige de Seymour, are still sidelined by the virus. 

Debbie Strange has coached some of NZ's top throwing athletes to greatness over the last four decades, and now she's sharing her skills around the globe, Merryn Anderson discovers.