New Zealand News

Some conservation land in the Coromandel could be used for mining, Energy and Resources Minister Gerry Brownlee says.

Press Release: New Zealand Police Wanganui Police executed a search warrant this morning at the city's Hells Angels headquarters in Kaikokopu Road.

Burglars lucked into a hoard of precious metals and rare coins when they stole a steel case from a rural Porirua house earlier this month.

A scientist from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research has dismissed a report of an iceberg about 30km southeast of Stewart Island.

Labour leader Phil Goff is accusing the Government of reopening racial wounds. In a speech about nationhood at a Grey Power-hosted public meeting in Palmerston North today, Mr Goff said the country could celebrate its rich heritage or re-open wounds and divisions.

A Tauranga hunter was accidently shot while hunting for rabbits south of Taupo late last night and is critically injured.

November 2009 - It is with great pleasure Huka Lodge, Taupo, New Zealand announces the appointment of Michel Louws to the role of Executive Chef.

Fire crews are battling a scrub fire which began in a swamp in the Coromandel village of Opoutere.

The mother of murdered Palmerston North man Nicholas Pike says she hopes to finally let go of her son, nearly seven years after he went missing.

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Australian financier Resimac Ltd was yesterday named as the new investor in Allied Farmers, as the Taranaki-based company continues with its ambitious expansion plan.

In this Nov. 16, 2009 photo released by the Australian Antarctic Division, an iceberg is seen behind a lying elephant seal at Sandy Bay on Macquarie Island's east coast, in the Southern Ocean 1,500 kilometers southeast of Tasmania, Australia .

A glider pilot is in critical condition in hospital after crash landing on an electric fence in Waikato on Tuesday.

School principal and Environment Bay of Plenty regional councillor Hawea Vercoe died from a brain injury, according to autopsy results.

Auckland's rail system will receive $500 million to buy electric trains. Transport Minister Steven Joyce said the loan to KiwiRail would kick forward the process early next year, with the first electric trains operational from 2013.

Monday, 23 November 2009, 1:00 pm Press Release: University of Auckland Pacific scholars, policy makers and analysts from around the world will convene at The University of Auckland for the 11th Pacific Islands Political Studies Association conference.

Regional towns across New Zealand are feeling the squeeze as mortgagee sales hit another historic high in September, according to the latest figures from Terralink International.

A teenage New Zealand thug who has won an appeal against an Australian deportation order should not have been allowed to stay on that side of the Tasman, says an Australian police union.

The State Services Commission has ordered an investigation into a Labour Party complaint about National MP Paul Quinn.

After years of debate New Zealand is set to have a working emissions trading scheme in 2010.