New Zealand News

The United States and New Zealand are trialling an electronic boarder control process that will see travellers from of New Zealand to Los Angeles fill out one less form.

An iconic newspaper likely to be familiar to any New Zealander who has lived in London looks to have published for the last time.

The only New Zealander to receive the Victoria Cross for his bravery at Gallipoli will be honoured at a special ceremony in Wellington today, Armistice Day.

A 29-year-old Dutch national, who had been living in Westport for three months, was killed when her car and a light truck collided north of Greymouth this morning.

The sister of the Halesowen man who died in a rock climbing accident in New Zealand this weekend has praised her a beautiful brothera .

Maverick Maori MP Hone Harawira is standing by his racist language and ripping off the taxpayer, Labour leader Phil Goff said today.

The wallet has been a bit lighter over the past 10 years if new figures are anything to go by with food prices both in New Zealand and Australia rocketing up more than 40%. A And experts say it's because New Zealand has only got two major supermarket chains, with a stranglehold on prices.

A teenager has admitted bashing an off-duty policeman outside a Hastings party last month.

From the weather is not climate department, it seems that the USA is not the only country experiencing an October cold snap.

Shares in wind turbine company Windflow Technology have been suspended from trading on the New Zealand stock exchange.

Ladyhawke stirs up a bit of Aussie controversy as her music career soars. Poor Pip Brown.

HE made waves around the world by becoming Britain's oldest emigrant. But nearly two years after leaving Hampshire for New Zealand at the grand old age of 103, Eric King-Turner has died.

A Whatawhata man who accidentally ran over his 2-year-old daughter in the driveway of their home on Monday has warned parents how easily and quickly such accidents can occur.

A woman has been arrested after a joint Police and Customs operation following the seizure of six kilograms of the party drug BZP at Auckland airport.

It is the British empire of the dead. Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last century.

Front-line local government staff in Auckland will be safe for now under the proposed super city, but staff in strategy, policy and planning could face redundancy.

A British climber plunged 155 metres to his death when a rope he and a friend were using to descend a cliff face on New Zealand's South Island became entangled, police said Sunday.

New Zealand, Australian and Korean officials will meet in Auckland today to discuss broadband infrastructure.

A special memorial service is to be held in Auckland for those who lost their lives in the tsunami that devastated Samoa and Tonga in late September.

Auckland property prices surged nearly 6 per cent in October, says real estate company Barfoot & Thompson.