Foreign drivers taking to New Zealand roads with fake licences and zero driving experience may be behind a growing number of fatal car crashes, coroners fear.

Much of the Wellington region remains divided over the future of its local-government arrangements, with new data showing the councils themselves just as split.

An early strike from the expanded Fair Deal Coalition takes the form of a letter to Trade Minister Tim Groser, setting out the characteristics of the kind of intellectual-property protection regime they would like to see come out of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific ...

A man was last night found guilty of setting fire to the Kaikoura Caltex petrol station. After a six-day hearing at the Blenheim District Court, a jury of five men and seven women took almost four hours to decide that Tony Clifford King was guilty of three charges of ...

MetService issued a severe weather watch for the region this morning, forecasting possible heavy rain and thundery downpours today and tomorrow.

A big turnout's expected at a community meeting in Timaru tonight, looking at the dangers of legal highs. There's been plenty of talk about the products in the town, with the local mayor calling on dairies stop selling them.