Palestinian militants began handing over three Israeli hostages in Gaza on Thursday in return for 110 Palestinian prisoners ...

Work is underway to protect taxpayer information from quantum computing's power to break through commonly used encryption ...

Fire and Emergency (FENZ) said it was alerted to the large scrub fire at around midnight and it had since grown to 1200 ...

Opinion - Success will depend on how they are implemented and, most of all, on the sector receiving sufficient funding.

A risk assessment by the Department of Conservation looked at 1145 species of birds, bats, lizards, and frogs, insects and ...

Anyone who wants to lock in interest rates at the bottom of the market "might want to start thinking about how much longer ...

Some principals are reporting major problems with the revamped school lunch scheme - including late meals and ham in halal ...

Climate Change Minister Simon Watts has revealed New Zealand's second emissions reduction target of between 51 and 55 percent ...

Police are continuing to search for 24-year-old Travis, who has been missing since 17 January. He travelled from Wellington ...

A cyclist has been killed after being involved in a crash with a car shortly before 6pm on Thursday. The crash happened in ...

A person has died in a water related incident in Gisborne on Thursday afternoon. Police said they were called to an address ...

Advocates say many in the disabled community, particularly deaf people, submitted on the bill - but are now being excluded.