A cyclist has been seriously injured after being hit by a car near Queenstown. Emergency services were called to the crash on ...

Pacific Island nations have voted against the United States to end trade embargoes on Cuba. The vote in the United Nations General Assembly puts the whole Pacific in opposition to the US, as well as ...

Pharmac is considering trimming its list of medications awaiting funding, focusing on those that have stayed in the lowest-ranked group for more than two years. There are more than 120 drugs currently ...

The US government went into shutdown on 1 October after Republicans and Democrats in Congress failed to pass appropriations funding government services.

Canterbury University has done a large scale test on the sort of steel frame and concrete multistories common in New Zealand.

There is still not enough known about the seafloor to decide if deep sea mining can start in the Cook Islands, government scientist says.

Brad Windust estimated the hornet species has likely been on our shores for many months, and its population could now be in the hundreds, putting New Zealand's honeybees at risk - including our 27 ...