On today's First Up pod: the presidents of Russia and the United States are planning to meet in Alaska on Friday, we find out ...

European allies are insisting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky should be in the room when Russia meets with the US to discuss an end to the war. BBC's Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse ...

Palmerston North Hospital's long-awaited new mental health ward could open late next month - a decade after the present ...

They needed a 94th minute goal to beat Victorian club side Nunawading City 1-nil in Melbourne to get into the quarter-finals.

Multi-storey warehouses built for robots and automatic retrieval systems present new firefighting challenges, a review ...

New Zealand cyclist Corbin Strong held off British Olympic champion Tom Piddock to win the Arctic Race of Norway. Strong won ...

European allies are insisting Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky should be in the room when Russia meets with the US to discuss an end to the war. BBC's Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse ...

It has been a prison, a home for the mentally unwell and a spooky backpackers - and now it is the scene of a suspicious fire.

An elderly Marlborough woman who died after being badly burned was cooking before the fire started, a coroner has found.

It's commonly assumed that Māori women don't carve. Carving is a tapu occupation with its own tikanga and ritual. Women have often not been allowed to be present while a carver is working. It's a ...

Scam sites on Facebook and Instagram are fooling Kiwis into buying badly made clothes from China by pretending to be local retailers going out of business - Matthew Hutching investigates.

Online ads for fake clothing stores with New Zealand locations in their names have been surging - with hundreds of complaints ...