The driver of a 30-tonne truck and trailer unit was looking at her phone for most of the final 16 seconds before she slammed into the back of stationary vehicles, killing another driver.
A sculpture by British artist Thomas J Price will be installed outside the Museum of Contemporary Art, so big it will be visible from across Sydney Harbour.
Donald Trump has called himself the "father of IVF" at an event for women voters, as the Republican presidential candidate tries to convince a crucial voting bloc they can trust him on reproductive issues.
Former One Direction singer Liam Payne has been found dead outside a hotel in Buenos Aires after falling from his third-floor room balcony in Argentina.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says that if he does not win the November election, he'll cry fraud and not accept the results - just as he did four years ago when he lost to Democratic President Joe Biden.
A last-minute scramble by consultants to cut costs from the new Dunedin hospital has been completed and includes the option of reducing the floor size, the ODT understands.
Vermin and the smell of decomposing fish and meat have been raised as concerns by submitters on plans to convert the Green Island landfill into a resource recovery park.
An implementation plan to help the Dunedin City Council meet Treaty of Waitangi obligations has been endorsed almost unanimously, but not without incident.