A New Zealand church has sparked outrage by erecting a billboard depicting Mary and Joseph lying semi-nude beneath the sheets. In an unorthodox take on the Christmas...

A 35-year-old HIV-positive man in New Zealand injected his blood into his wife while she was sleeping, thereby infecting her with the virus, court documents have...

Retail workers at The Warehouse, a big box retail company based on the American Walmart model, have voted to strike. 2000 of the company’s 5000 employees are...

After his wife’s car plunged into a river, Stacy Horton had an agonising decision to make: rescue her or their teenage son. His wife Vanessa had escaped from the...

Over a hundred ice burgs are drifting from Antarctica to New Zealand. Scientist Neal Young told the AFP that these icebergs, some of which are more than 200 meters...

Being connected globally today is as important as breakfast living in the rural lands or bush of New Zealand. Transmission by satellite for internet, uninterrupted, no...

The EDWIN FOX built in India the year of 1853. Duncan Dunbar (in 1854) purchased the Edwin Fox that immediately went into service as a troop ship for the British...

The Household Labour Force survey has show that Maori unemployment has increased drastically from 9.6 percent to 14.2 percent in the past year, representing10,000 job...

The environment caring Logger Jason Mc Elwain Picton New Zealand Pine plantations scattered throughout the Marlborough Sound hills reaching maturity the loggers...

A species of snail fish–the deepest living fish in the world–have been captured on camera n the southern hemisphere for the first time. These strange,...

Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP for the Te Tai Tokerau electorate has come under fire in the media for comments that the National Business Review described as “racially...

The National Party made public its harsh welfare policies in August last year, resulting in a marked increase in calls to counseling service Lifeline by distressed...

Legislation making controversial changes to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has passed its first reading in parliament by a...

More than 500 motorcyclists roared through the small South Island city of Nelson on last weekend to give a clear message to local MP Nick Smith, who is also the...

Changes being proposed to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) could block access to counselling for victims of sexual abuse. The...

For over a week television viewers and newspaper readers in New Zealand -and even some overseas- were fed constant updates about Aisling Symes, the two year old girl...

When Auckland bus drivers were at a standstill negotiating with their employer NZ Bus, a company owned by Infratil, they took a creative form of industrial action;...

In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions...

Department of Conservation workers and scientists from the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have been searching for phreatoicids (pronced...

The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city...