Northland will likely miss out on a multimillion-dollar, government-backed vegetable growing operation following the closure of the Marsden Point refinery near Whangārei.

The change to the Health and Safety at Work Act would mean the land owner would still be responsible for risks where their ...

Shane Palemia won three gold medals in the men's 97kg division. Gaku Akazawa won two gold and one silver, while Jeremiah Tipamaa claimed a silver. Special Olympics Papua New Guinea has trained 23 ...

US Senator Cory Booker has broken the record for the longest floor speech in modern Senate history, surpassing the late ...

Democrat Cory Booker has been speaking since midday on Tuesday, and could break the 24 hour 18 minute record set in 1957. Washington DC correspondent Josh Gerstein spoke to Tuwhenuaroa Natanahira.

Staff had noted the girl, mistaken for a 20-year-old "resembled a child and may have a disability", Health NZ's review of the ...

"Don't use your back like a crane"...went the public health messaging in the 80s. It was aimed at making us all think about how we were lifting - from the legs, not the back.

Thirteen people are thought to have been injured in a crash between a car and a van in Taranaki. Police said the crash ...