Banks Peninsula farmers and businesses are counting the cost of devastating flooding that swamped paddocks and swept through The peninsula remains under a state of emergency, although State Highway 75 ...

Four people have been injured, one of them critically, after a fight in Christchurch. Emergency services were called to Hoani St, Northcote, about 9.30pm yesterday. One person was in critical ...

A coalition of environmental and health groups have filed suit against the Trump administration’s repeal of a key scientific finding that underpinned federal climate regulations. The action in a ...

A top Trump Administration official yesterday disclosed new details to support its claim that China conducted an underground ...

Simón López Trujillo’s Pedro the Vast is one of the more arresting and disquieting works of contemporary Latin American speculative fiction, a novel that fuses ecological horror, political satire and ...

At the moment, publicly funded genetic testing is available only to people with a family history of certain conditions. The other option, going with a private company such as i-screen for a ...

Kosovo’s former President and guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci called the war crimes charges against him “entirely untrue and utterly absurd” on the final day of his marathon trial in The Hague. More ...

James Bell, a marine biologist at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, has already watched a mass sponge ...

With increased Russian aggression and US untrustworthiness, Germany needs more soldiers.

It’s Rose Byrne’s captivating, Oscar-nominated lead performance that saves this exhausting and stressful portrait of a mother ...

For decades, Western leaders invoked the “rules-based international order” as a talisman – the post-1945 system of institutions and norms that would constrain power, prevent ...

New Zealand’s summer has been defined by repeated bursts of intense rain, as subtropical systems have swept down over the ...