Grass-track harness racing returns to the South in 2025 at Riverton tomorrow. Two southern colts with a spring in their step should attract some interest at the Karaka yearling sales. ODT Odds On ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon is among the several hundred people who have filed into the small grounds at Ōnuku marae in Akaroa today. A dawn ceremony has marked the beginning of Waitangi Day ...

An Auckland real estate agent has lost her challenge against industry body the Real Estate Authority over a compulsory Te Tiriti course. A man accused of murdering a pig hunter and attempting to ...

The spectacle of visitors caught short at one of the South Island’s most renowned visitor sites will be wiped away when new ...

Dunedin residents could be forced to pay for parking on Sundays, despite one councillor calling the proposal "mean-spirited". A Dunedin man has been jailed for two and a-half years for a string of car ...

The Green Party is asking the speaker of the house and prime minister to reprimand government ministers over comments made ...

France is to launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine.

Doc has confirmed about 40 black-backed gulls have died from what's believed to be avian botulism at the Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon, near Timaru. Half a world away from home, jobless and cashless on ...

More general practices are closing their books, with over a third of doctors turning away new patients last year. In Southland, the Gore Health Centre has been running a waitlist since October.

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a ...

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered "catastrophic" damage from a marine heatwave with some of its iconic coral reduced to rubble. Anne Munro was diagnosed shortly before Christmas and will be stepping ...

MPI is investigating after a video of a teen hitting and kicking a live octopus on a Bay of Plenty beach has emerged. A friend who was with a New Zealander when she was allegedly set on fire by her ex ...