Hayden Wilde won the T100 French Riviera triathlon six days after his Ironman 70.3 world title, as fellow New Zealander Kyle Smith took third after being hit by a bus.

Auckland trains carried a record 528,007 passengers in the City Rail Link's first week, up 62 per cent and beating a March 2019 record.

Shane Jones wants a stand-alone fish farming law as officials tell salmon bosses New Zealand's harvest could grow thirty-fold on demand for lean protein.

Chris Hipkins says Labour will not change interest deductibility for residential landlords if elected, relying on its 28% capital gains tax. National calls it a U-turn.

The NRL admits the Warriors should have had a last-minute penalty against the Knights at Eden Park, and referee Ashley Klein is set to miss the preliminary finals.

Fonterra lifts its 2026/27 milk price forecast midpoint 25 cents to $9.50 per kg of milk solids as dairy auction prices recover, ahead of Thursday's annual result.

All Blacks captain Ardie Savea needs surgery on his dislocated shoulder, ruling him out of the Bledisloe Cup and likely the rest of 2026.

An AECOM report released today finds Wellington's Moa Point sewage plant flooded five times in four months before it failed, and critical alarms never paged anyone.

The black robin has won Bird of the Year 2026, its first title, with a record 98,920 votes and 88 percent of them cast inside New Zealand.

New Zealand First has released a 15-point election health policy arguing the country spends $33 billion a year treating sickness and almost nothing preventing it.

New Zealand's annual current account deficit widened to $14.58 billion, 3.2 percent of GDP, in the year to June 2026 as higher fuel import prices bit.

Nurses say Whanganui Hospital's 15-bed emergency department averaged 680 percent occupancy over a week in September. Health New Zealand disputes that number but confirms a 253 percent peak, about 50 ...