Talking crises over coffee, the leaders of NZ, Australia and Canada convened at a Laotian café, seizing the opportunity to meet on the sidelines of the East Asia Summit.
The daughter of a woman killed in Christchurch says family and friends are struggling to understand how something so horrible could have happened to such a lovely person.
A planned lecture by Grant Robertson has been postponed a day after a glass pane was smashed during a pro-Palestine protest at the University of Otago clocktower.
The IPCA has ruled a dog handler's decision to signal the driver of a stolen vehicle to stop just moments after it crashed into his dog van was justified.
The Department of Conservation says it is "alarmed and disappointed" at the number of people ignoring closed signs on storm-damaged walking tracks around the region.
A failure of both skippers to keep proper watch led to a "catastrophic" collision in the Bay of Islands which left one man with critical injuries and sank a historic ferry, a new report has found.
People living near a Canterbury car wrecking yard operating on rural land are fed up with what they say is ineffectual action by the district council to stop the business.
The man jailed for almost 13 years for killing RNZ journalist Phillip Cottrell has been released, despite still being high risk and disengaging with rehabilitation.