What a shambles. A ministerial resignation, a police investigation, two unidentified women with complaints of sexual misconduct and the leader of the opposition hounding the prime minister to meet one of them.
Three police officers have told a court they stopped Nai Yin Xue on roads between Auckland and Wellington over a two-day period during which the Crown says he broke into a Wellington house looking for his wife.
New Zealand European children are more likely to get better asthma treatment than Maori and Pacific Island children, the Asthma and Respiratory Foundation says.
North Korea is believed to have begun assembling a long-range missile capable of reaching Alaska, a news report said today, as the communist regime prepared to test-fire a barrage of missiles from both coasts.
New Zealand's warm-up for the ICC World Twenty20 cricket championship hit a road bump today with seven-wicket loss to Australia at The Oval in London.
An opposition leadership bid to focus on Labor's debt and deficit levels backfired today when two MPs clashed physically in the Liberal party room.
The Government is defending a 10-year suspension of contributions to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund saying it will not lead to any change in pension entitlements.
Prime Minister John Key is calling for a cross-party committee to examine ways of creating greater transparency of MPs expenses.
The slashing of the civil service has not extended to Treasury, the department which advises the Government on financial matters.
There will be no more using KiwiSaver money to help with mortgage repayments.
An under-strength New Zealand arrive in Edinburgh this weekend for the final round of the world rugby sevens series with barely a whisper of a chance to finish runners-up.
Labour and the Greens have attacked a new tenancy agreement which gives Housing New Zealand the right to decide whether people on parole or bail can live in its state homes.
Pakistan's military says it has no intention of halting its offensive against the Taliban in the Swat Valley, despite a pledge by militants to temporarily stop attacking security forces in the main city out of concern for trapped civilians.
Ministry of Health officials have quarantined another seven people suspected of having swine flu, as the virus continues to infect people in other countries.
Emphatic pool play wins over Canada, Portugal and Argentina on Saturday set New Zealand up for a quarterfinal clash with Fiji at the London rugby sevens at Twickenham.
A large slip is threatening to close State Highway 2 on the Rimutaka Hill between the Hutt Valley and Wairarapa as forecasters warn heavy rain in the area is set to continue.
Five teenage girls died when a juvenile detention was engulfed by flames as police investigated a melee by inmates, Jamaican authorities said today.
Slashing science funding is short-sighted and will make it harder for New Zealand to climb out of a recession, says the union representing 2500 members working at eight state-owned Crown Research Institutes.
A Christchurch father has been convicted of assaulting his four-year-old son after a two-day trial that was seen as a test of the anti-smacking laws.
After a nine-year investigation, a commission published a damning report today on decades of rapes, humiliation and beatings at Catholic Church-run reform schools for Ireland's castaway children.
