Opinion: Buying something and getting something entirely different really gets your knickers in a twist, but that's the online gamble you play before you pay.

Invercargill mayoral and council aspirants have delivered their pitch to Invercargill’s youth; the problem is there were actually few youths in attendance to hear it.

A 30-year-old in police custody on burglary and ammunition charges following a heist at a Lower Hutt store on August 25.

Quinn and Ben win their first-ever room reveal, while Chloe and Ben make poor decisions that have one judge walking out.

A 25-year-old will appear in court on Thursday on murder and arson charges after the blaze ripped through a house around 8am.

The material hacked includes copies of drivers' licences, passports, rates invoices, tenancy agreements, utility bills, and other council membership cards.

Auckland’s Glenfield College has a human skeleton in its science depertment... and it’s been there for decades, the school says.

You don’t need to be the perfect speller or the next Dan Brown to write your memoir, you just need to have a story to tell.

The big retail and diversified property investor has agreed to sell Northlands mall in Papanui for $160 million to Queenstown-based MP Holdings 5 Limited.

The late-night burger joint’s current mobile trading licence expires on September 30, with no verdict on an extension yet.

Joe Zhou, who is running for local office in Kaipātiki on Auckland's North Shore found six of his billboards covered in derogatory Asian terms.

Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier says he is reassured after promising a tougher stance against the public service for failing to comply with the 20-day OIA response time - a crucial tool to ensure government transparency.

Nearly $2 million of New Plymouth ratepayers money has been approved to go to the Catholic Church for a block of pensioner flats in Bell Block.

British popstar and Kiwi artists Shapeshifter and Benee will perform when New Zealand hosts the women's Rugby World Cup for the first time.

Some critics dismissed Dimmer's debut album as "funky" when it was first released 21 years ago. It's now about to be played in full before sell-out crowds.

It all seemed extremely weird until it was revealed a well-known prankster was behind the signature stunt.

The silage pits linked to water issues which plagued Timaru’s drinking water supply over the summer were 125 times bigger than rules allow.

It seemed a truce between Paul Eagle and Andy Foster – two bitter rivals to be Wellington's next mayor – was agreed. It lasted 13 minutes.

Renters United says this granny flat in Wellington reflects the crisis, but its manager says we should be talking about how landlords are suffering.

REVIEW: Apart from the ongoing pretention of the literary allusions that pepper the otherwise pulpy proceedings, the central relationship is so awful.