A week into the new school lunches regime, a Dunedin school says they are "not better, not worse" than those served last year. For more than 40 years, scientists have puzzled over how our sensory ...

Freedom campers are welcome on the South Island's West Coast, but too many are leaving unwanted deposits behind. The West Coast Regional Council is defending its latest increase in staff numbers — ...

Hundreds if not thousands of people are applying for the same jobs in the wake of last year's public sector gutting, a former ...

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a smokescreen for digging up fossil fuels. A friend who was with a New ...

Serious injuries have been indicated from a crash near Hurunui. Police have named the two people who died in a crash in Greta Valley late last year. Kāinga Ora is preparing to take a tougher line on ...

Kāinga Ora is preparing to take a tougher line on rent debt. A landlord who says her tenant poisoned her dogs with chocolate ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%. Former PM Jacinda Ardern's "deeply personal memoir" will be released in early June - and promises to provide all the ...

A landlord who says her tenant poisoned her dogs with chocolate has had her claim for compensation declined by the Tenancy Tribunal, and been told to pay $1320 to the tenant. US President Donald Trump ...

The Central Intelligence Agency has assessed that the Covid-19 pandemic is "more likely" to have emerged from a lab than from nature.

As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the world into uncharted waters, Star Media journalists and photographers continue to report local stories that matter everyday - yours. For more than 152 years our ...

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is a level-based action adventure game; a remaster of the original game released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2013. A deceptively simple control system underpins this alpinist ...