Six years after completing the first leg of his solo circumnavigation of the world in a rowing boat, from Dunedin to Cape Horn in Chile, an adventurer has started the second leg of the journey.
Nearly 400 secondary school students from across the country were welcomed to the University of Otago yesterday, where they will try out campus life this week, as part of Hands-On at Otago.
Filipino Catholic devotees jostle to touch the carriage carrying the statue of the Black Nazarene during the annual procession on its feast day in Manila, Philippines.
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.
More of upscale Pacific Palisades is being affected by a raging wildfire. Evacuation orders throughout the LA area now cover 153,000 residents, putting 57,000 structures at risk, and there are more high winds forecast.
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.
Civil rights activist turned community development mentor, John McKnight shaped the thinking of many future leaders about how neighbourhoods should function.
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.