New Zealand opener was left five runs short of a 12th test ton as the visitors come under pressure from India's spin attack on day three.

Left-armer Axar Patel spins a web and snares a five-wicket bag as India's total of 345 looks enough for a first innings lead.

The Omicron variant was first detected in South Africa, and is a “highly transmissible virus of concern”.

For just the second time in the past nine seasons, the Phoenix are unbeaten through their opening two games, as missed penalty doesn't haunt them in Wollongong.

They were responding to reports of a person getting into difficulty in the water at around 7.45pm Saturday evening.

Two lucky Lotto players will be celebrating after each willing half-a-million dollars in Saturday night's draw.

Motorists urged to postpone West Coast travel as many residents left without phone, internet thanks to lines outage

Jacqui Hand scored her first international goal, but two defensive lapses meant they suffered their eighth loss in a row in Goyang.

The search is on for a 63-year-old Wellington father who left work on Friday and wrote on a whiteboard that he'd return two hours later, but didn’t.

A pop-up testing centre is being set up in the Bay of Plenty town after a Delta case was confirmed there on Saturday.

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Police swooped into a small Mackenzie town to arrest a man in connection to a near-deadly shooting in Palmerston North.

The Wellington Phoenix look for their first win of the new A-League men’s season, against the Central Coast Mariners.

New positions are rolled out as police seek to curb the intimidating behaviour of gangs.

Former PM John Key has clarified that he was not making calls to National MPs pushing them to vote for Chris Luxon for party leader, as earlier reported.

In a field of contestants split between two cities, Max Carter, 14, has emerged as the national spelling bee champion after 18 gruelling rounds of competition.

Follow the action as the Football Ferns take on South Korea in a women’s football international.

A person has died of Covid-19, while 77 people are in hospital, with eight in ICU. There are 145 new cases today.