Knives, homemade tasers, screwdrivers, knitting needles, knuckledusters and even a small axe are just some of the items.

A child has died after being struck by a vehicle in a driveway in Masterton. Police said a crash occurred on Atkinson Street ...

A dozen inmates at Waikeria Prison in Waikato will be charged with misconduct, after being found to have consumed homebrew on ...

The Department of Conservation (DoC) is alerting swimmers to look out for great white sharks after sightings in the Kawhia ...

Buddhika Rajapakse, who is based in Auckland, has received two letters from BP telling him he's driven off from a petrol ...

Dixon Handshaw thought he was an only child for most of his life. But decades after being adopted, the 75-year-old learned he ...

Volunteers are grappling with environmental havoc across more than 56 kilometres of coastline after at least 3700 tons of ...

A Dunedin man with a learning disability is spending Christmas Day cooped up inside a motel, as the date to move back into ...

The King will deliver his annual Christmas message from a former hospital chapel. New Zealand is the first country in the ...

As more than 700 people sit down to community Christmas Day lunches, the levels of need in the community this year are the ...

"From our family to yours, we hope you have a very Happy Christmas," Christopher Luxon posted to social media.

President-elect Donald Trump said he will direct the Department of Justice to "vigorously pursue the death penalty" after ...