A "suspicious" car fire near Tiwai Point in Southland spread to vegetation and water tankers had to be called in to help extinguish it.

When meeting someone with a visible disability for the first time, people often inquire about what happened. But is that OK?

Wellington fast bowler Ben Sears returns to the Black Caps line-up for the Champions Trophy in Pakistan and the UAE.

A bolt of lightning likely killed seven sheep found dead on a Canterbury farm under a tree with a huge crack down the middle of it.

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air jet that crashed in South Korea stopped recording about four minutes before the airliner hit a concrete structure, officials say.

As LA construction worker Ivan De La Torre surveyed a landscape of smoking wreckage in fire-ravaged Altadena, a question nagged at him: how would insurance companies cover the cost of rebuilding an entire neighbourhood?

President-elect Donald Trump won't be jailed or face any other punishment for his conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, but a judge says it won't erase the jury verdict either.