A mother of three is facing a $38,000 bill for overpayment of Working for Families credits after being caught out due to an oversight in filling out an IRD form.

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?

The firefighters' union has serious concerns about the deteriorating state of Auckland's frontline fleet of fire trucks and specialist appliances, which it believes is putting crews and the public at risk.

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.

Denmark's government is reportedly proposing purchasing two new Arctic inspection vessels and increasing dog sled patrols to boost its military presence in Greenland, as Donald Trump sets his sights on the island.