A cold snap is being felt across the country, with high winds forcing the cancelling of ferry crossings and some North Island ...

Holiday-makers heading home from holidays and a handful of crashes have slowed traffic in Waikato, Wellington and at the ...

Anna Yeoman, a conservation ranger at the Mokomoko Dryland Sanctuary near Alexandra, describes the battle to protect New Zealand’s exquisite jewelled gecko from ruthless poachers and predators.

It is a rollercoaster of emotions for the hundreds of mourners gathering to pay tribute to Dame Tariana Turia. A cold snap is ...

Millions of Americans from the Plains to the East Coast face the threat of blizzards, heavy snow, treacherous ice and freezing rain through to Monday. Four people have been left injured, including two ...

Nurses have been reluctant to test for Covid-19 and take time off work due to fears of running out of sick leave, an Auckland nurse says. One person is dead and another seriously injured following a ...

One person is dead and another seriously injured following a crash in Karaka, south of Auckland yesterday. It is by no means a "bummer summer" despite the cool temperatures and wet weather seen by ...

It is by no means a "bummer summer" despite the cool temperatures and wet weather seen by much of the country since Christmas, a forecaster says. Warning labels on alcoholic drinks would help limit ...

A direct link to the founder of Lane’s Emulsion in Oamaru has died at 100. A new economic impact report on the value of the Oamaru Heritage Precinct has vindicated its role as the "key sightseeing ...

Warning labels on alcoholic drinks would help limit the number of cancers caused by alcohol, but other policies are also needed, says a public health researcher. Provisional figures show a significant ...

Legal controls have now been imposed on the movement of fruit and vegetables in Papatoetoe, Auckland, where an Oriental fruit fly was found yesterday. Firefighters are bracing for bushfire flare-ups ...

Mike Houlahan looks back at how the ODT covered burning issues of yesteryear. Today we look back at the rise of Kaikorai rugby great James Duncan to his sport’s pinnacle in 1901. Former Highlander ...