Phones have replaced many things: computers, calculators, cameras and maps, but returning to an old-fashioned alarm clock ...

The US and Colombia pulled back from the brink of a trade war after the White House said the South American nation had agreed ...

The Kansas City Chiefs are through to their fifth Super Bowl final in six years, after narrowly beating the Buffalo Bills ...

The storm in Mangawhai was so powerful that power poles were snapped in half and roofs were ripped off, leaving the seaside ...

A severe thunderstorm watch remains in place for Christchurch, the Canterbury Plains and Canterbury High Country until 7pm.

South Australia police arrested 16 National Socialist Network members in Adelaide on Australia Day, and charged them with ...

An outbreak of avian botulism in Otago has led to the deaths of about 1000 waterfowl at the Waikouaiti wastewater treatment ...

Two teens who allegedly tried and failed to break into a jeweller's and a service station before looting a dairy have been ...

Author Neil Gaiman has been dropped by one of his publishers after he was accused of sexual assault and abuse by multiple ...

A two-vehicle crash on State Highway 1 in the Whanganui region has left people with serious injuries, police say.

The 7.8-magnitude quake struck on 3 February, 1931, at 10.47am and lasted for two-and-a-half minutes, followed by aftershocks ...

Otago local Julie Hall's Antique Carriages business has a starring role in the new adaptation of the John Steinbeck classic.