Auckland Council has been confiscating recycling bins in an effort to stop people throwing rubbish in the wrong bin. Two ...

A heatwave sweeping across inland Australia is expected to cause havoc for firefighters trying to contain several large blazes. Four people have been injured after a two-vehicle crash closed the ...

With the holiday road toll season upon us, ODT editorial artist Austin Milne recounts how his father was killed by a drunk driver whose sentence of judicial monitoring ended this month.

A man has been charged with murder after the death of a baby in the Hamilton suburb of Fairfield on Wednesday. A cyclist has ...

South Korean police have raided Jeju Air and the operator of Muan International Airport as they investigate a crash that ...

The Smith siblings in Tarras strive to be competitive in rodeo events, but not necessarily with each other. A sea lion and ...

Oranga Tamariki says it was not involved with the whānau of a baby who died this week at the time of the violent killing. A warning has been issued after two separate house fires in Christchurch over ...

Law enforcement officials named a US Army soldier as the likely person inside a Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. The man who died after an incident at ...

Foodie-farmer Nadia Lim says she is aiming for a more "relaxed and casual" atmosphere at Christmas this year - with only a 20 ...

A Dunedin man is spending Christmas Day cooped up inside a motel, as the date to move back into his flood-damaged house keeps ...

A family-owned restaurant in the Far North is making sure people who could have gone hungry today will instead go home full ...

A nurse has been hospitalised with stab wounds after attending a callout to a property in Rotorua. It is believed a man has ...