He is due in Palmerston North District Court tomorrow on two charges of wilfully setting fire to a property and one of possessing an offensive weapon. Emergency services found the Main Street house ...

Fire and Emergency was called shortly before 4 this afternoon and arrived to find the home well involved in flames. It appears nobody was inside the building, and a fire investigator is now there.

The Bunnies forward has been slapped with a shoulder charge and two dangerous contact charges from the match and a total of $3000 worth of fines if he takes an early guilty plea. RUGBY LEAGUE COVERAGE ...

The game had 10 different try scorers, with Otago flanker Lucas Casey and Wellington centre Matt Proctor collecting doubles.

Australia have come back from 22 points down to pull off an unlikely victory with 38 unanswered points. The two sides meet again in Cape Town next week. Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt says the Springboks ...

All Blacks flanker Du'Plessis Kirifi is taking a measured approach as he starts in the number seven jersey for this morning's Rugby Championship clash against Argentina in Cordoba 17 Aug: Scott ...

New Zealand recorded results of fifth, fourth and 10th in the first three races, before a win in the final contest gave them a much-needed boost in the standings. Black Foils driver Peter Burling's ...

Dr Kingsbury was an advisor at the 2005 peace talks that ended a brutal, three-decade separatist war in the Indonesian province of Aceh. He says both sides were caught in a "hurting stalemate" — a ...

The man, known only as Jay, has been at Auckland's Mason Clinic for more than two decades, after smashing his neighbours windows with an axe. The High Court and Court of Appeal had said he was too ...

Pilgrims come from across India to seek blessings at the revered Shri Manjunatha Temple — a centuries-old shrine dedicated to Lord Shiva. But last month, that serenity gave way to something more ...

Metservice forecasts South Island areas above 200-metres, are likely to face snow and cold-temperatures by Tuesday. They say that will stress livestock, and bring hazardous driving conditions. The ...

A magnitude-6 earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, east of Borneo, officials say. BMKG — Indonesia's meteorology, climatology and geophysics agency — said there was no tsunami ...