A late penalty by Harry Plummer earned Auckland a 21-18 victory in the NPC quarterfinal.

With just one day to go, voters were turned away from a special voting station in Mt Roskill because they ran out of papers.

Kiwi ANBL club ends a 489-day wait for a home game with a result that send their fans away from Spark Arena happy.

Despite going into qualifying underdone and dealing with a wet track, Richie Stanaway did enough to join Shane van Gisbergen in the top 10 shootout.

The diamond, unearthed from the Williamson mine in Tanzania, is the second-largest of its kind ever to go under the hammer.

Oli Sail looked set to leave the Phoenix in the off-season but a move overseas fell through after he made a costly error while playing for the All Whites.

We've reached the midway point of the school holidays and Mother Nature hasn't been playing ball. Here are some ideas to get you through the next week.

From Del Piero's debut to Rudan's return, the Phoenix have been involved in some memorable season openers over the years.

The offenders looked "very excited" with the $40 cash they managed to steal, after failing to access the cigarettes and the till, the manager says.

Former deputy prime minister Winston Peters has met Taiwan's president in Taipei and launched into a thinly veiled criticism of China at a diplomatic forum.

The teacher aide was found guilty in 2021, but a retrial was ordered and he was found guilty again.

A nurse from Middlemore Hospital's emergency department says the decision by nurses to refuse to work extra shifts has exposed the true scale of its chronic staffing shortages.

The Fiji women's rugby team has some big ambitions at this year's Rugby World Cup. But first, they must overcome a top-ranked England side.

With great food and drink offerings and plenty of entertainment, this is a relaxing and luxurious way to spend time in southern Bali.

What makes people get out of warm beds to take a dip in the freezing sea? Outdoor swimmers say there are so many benefits, physically and mentally.

A kākā chick rescued mistakenly was lucky to find company of a group of kākā to be rehabilitated safely in the wild.

The artist fell in love with the wild nature on this coastline, and it was affordable for her family on one income.

Opinion: Future generations will have to live with the consequences of the plans made by today's voting public. We need their voice.

Writer, art critic and editor Thomasin Sleigh reviews two photography shows, centuries apart.

World's top ranked T20 men's batter demonstrates his quality as Pakistan overcome Bangladesh in tri-series opener in Christchurch.