"I was surprised at how one-sided it was," Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher told the ODT after a surprise U-turn by the Waitaki District Council.

The fine sweeper - a camera-covered car that catches out overstaying parkers - has snapped more than 5000 vehicles in five months.

A coroner has again pointed to failures in the ambulance call-taker process.

A newly-appointed KiwiRail board director is a director of a Tapanui company which donated to NZ First and is involved in the Mosgiel inland port development.

Successive governments have grappled with how to adapt to and pay for climate change risks to communities as the frequency and severity of weather events increases.

Italy's Bergamo airport was temporarily closed after a man died on a runway during take-off preparations for a flight.

The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas rose to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams press on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris for scores of people still missing.

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM party says a delegation has met with President Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the disarmament process of Kurdistan Workers Party militants.