A couple of crowd-pleasing favourites are back, while a popular Australian quiz show might finally provide a challenge to The Chase's supremacy.

REVIEW: Playing a jittery, socially gauche wreck with anger management issues, he hinted at a darker, deeper side in P.T. Anderson's offbeat romance.

Video and images capture homes buried beneath mud, chunks of road swept away, and the flood-hit streets of Nelson and Wellington.

Howard Willis Case had taken a cocktail of drugs and was speeding at up to 150kph in foggy weather at night when he crashed while driving to the West Coast with friends.

Brendon Piper wants to see changes after he and his dalmation pup were mauled in a "hit-and-run" dog attack.

A pair of Invercargill teenagers have been chosen to compete in taekwondo for New Zealand in Tahiti but face a race to fundraise before they leave in a little over a month.

The first of several Oranga Tamariki staff has taken the stand in the Royal Commission’s Abuse in Care inquiry.

Another 48 labelled "Putin’s proxies" in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions join the nearly 900 people and entities sanctioned since March.

Watch: The emotional moment new Parramatta Eels star spots former Black Ferns Sevens teammates in Sydney crowd.

Over a distance 100 kilometres, diesel is almost $2 more expensive than 95 octane petrol. The price is not expected to fall soon.

After two terms as a councillor he's running for the top job - with vegetable ink on his pamphlets and paper-based election signs.

New Taranaki cricket coach has hatched some plans to improve the game in the region.

More people will be able to get on to the property ladder with the launch of a legal vehicle for group ownership, a real estate expert says.

World-renowned French pianist Maxime Zecchini is touring New Zealand to raise money for Alliance Française.

Pāua stocks at the popular Hawke's Bay beach could be given an extra two years to recover, but nearby communities fear this could exacerbate their poaching problems.

A New Plymouth District Council candidate who is the head of operations for anti-vaccination group and anti-mandate group Voices of Freedom says he’s standing in the local body elections as an independent.

Volunteer teams from Canterbury have been greeted with open arms and muffins as they pitch in to the Nelson cleanup with shovels.

Sharma might “flourish” as an independent MP, but his tarnished relationship with Labour colleagues could see less effective results for his Hamilton West voters.

Recovery teams have been out on the water, and in the air, on Monday to understand the full extent of the damage.

This year alone there have been 35 house fires caused by lithium-ion batteries in New Zealand. So what are the risks?