Lynda Hartman, of Denver Colorado, USA, needed a hug. "I really needed it ... it felt good".

Myanmar military blocks internet access, Kiwis advised to avoid crowds and input SafeTravel details for updates.

Canterbury schools are being offered cheaper entries for The Run to Remember in a new initiative aimed at helping children get more exercise.

One person is dead and two others injured following a crash between three motorcycles on the road between Napier and Awatoto.

A woman cycling from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise bowel cancer awareness has completed the 2000km ride in under a week.

Asked for his response to being labelled a 'tool' by Nick Kyrgios, world No 1 couldn't bite his tongue for long.

A rare Sophie Devine failure saw the three-time defending champs stumble, and an important rematch looms in four days' time.

Years and Years creator Russell T. Davies is back with another audacious drama, while Katherine Heigl returns to the spotlight.

Subdivisions in eastern Blenheim are off limits because of liquefaction risks, but a councillor says they can be solved with innovative engineering.

The Armed Offenders Squad has been called to a house on Lorn St, Invercargill.

Free blood tests, fruit and vegetables will be on offer for residents whose water supply may have been contaminated with lead.

A shortfall of hundreds of thousand of dollars in the Gore District Council’s waste budget has opened.

Dion Honi Tainui could have been a household name. Instead, he died after a life blighted by drug use, diabetes, heart attacks and a brain tumour that left him without a memory.

Spate of stingings reported after winds swept large bloom of bluebottles onshore in Sydney.

Timaru is expected to welcome another refugee family within the next few months as the Government resumes its refugee quota programme.

St John said it was called to the scene in the popular holiday spot on the Coromandel Peninsula but the person died.

'Brutus' is exciting and frightening holidaymakers with almost daily visits to the popular Abel Tasman National Park beach.

Soon to be boss at Canterbury and West Coast DHB, Peter Bramley reflects on achievements and challenges ahead.

Usually there’s more than enough drama at a night at the opera, but things really stepped up a notch - or eleven- at The Merry Widow at the Sydney Opera House last month.

About 23,000 people packed Christchurch’s Hagley Park to see one of the country's biggest bands perform.