The six prisoners climbed onto the roof of Hawke’s Bay Regional Prison on Monday afternoon. Now a negotiation team has been called in.

Jacinda Ardern and politicians from across the spectrum have touched down in Samoa, marking the reopening of the Pacific nation and 60 years of official friendship.

From raging fires to battling blizzards, south Auckland firefighter Laura Andrews is set for a scene change as prepares a long trek in Antarctica.

A top New Zealand historian thinks our national library has been fooled into buying a forgery. It wouldn't be the first time.

This month, we're back in Westeros, Bruce Banner finally has friend not from work and Neil Gaiman's beloved graphic novel series comes to life.

REVIEW: Featuring a trio of terrific performances from Tucci, Streep and Adams, this is a sweet, satisfying combination of two terrific books.

The sanctions cover a large web of defence entities which build and develop weapons, technology, communications systems and other hardware, and provide services like insurance and transport.

The space station has shared a bird’s eye view of Aotearoa without (mostly) its long white cloud.

Gary Hollywood is assembling a team designed to take the dual Commonwealth Games gold medallist to the top at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Trial and error led a British doctor and her restaurateur husband to this third-time lucky house in their adopted hometown.

The Kiwi women's fours kick off day four action in Birmingham with a semifinal at the bowling green.

An Auckland chiropractor had a "narrow escape" from having his registration cancelled after a two-year relationship with a patient, a tribunal decided.

New ways to treat chronic pain that don't have side effects or cause addiction could be discovered by researchers studying one of Aotearoa's most poisonous plants.

ANALYSIS: Winning gold at a Commonwealth Games doesn't equate to raging favourite status at an Olympics, but Tony Smith finds reasons to be cheerful for Kiwi sports fans.

OPINION: Owning a private jet in the midst of a climate crisis probably isn't a good idea. Neither is ordering a mystery mail-order sauce in teh midst of a heat wave.

An artwork that drew inspiration from a spur-of-the-moment haircut while in Covid isolation has won the $25,000 Parkin Drawing Prize.

Is it gorse or cows that are boosting nitrogen levels in Te Waikoropupū Springs? Week three of the Environment Court hearing in Nelson begins.

It rates itself as one of the sunniest spots around, but Marlborough last month received nearly 35% of its average annual rainfall - the most its ever had since records began.

A former Timaru woman says it is unsettling to see the less positive effects Covid has had on New Zealanders.

Fabian Kearns twice took off his clothes and did an indecent act in front of a security camera and, on another occasion, sniffed and stole underwear from a washing line.