Water quality website Safeswim has red-flagged 30 Waitemata Harbour beaches, meaning swimming is not advised, and black-flagged a further four inner harbour beaches warning not to swim there at all.

England seamer Brydon Carse earned 'player of the match' honours for his maiden ten-wicket haul, including a dynamic 6 for 42 in New Zealand's second innings. NEWSTALK ZB's INTERNATIONAL CRICKET ...

The man behind a viral social media post documenting his smooth chocolate bar has been given £2 ($3.91) in compensation. Harry Seager's picture of the featureless bar garnered more than 15,000 ...

Flight NZ249 to Sydney experienced the problem and hour into its flight, and landed safely in Auckland at 5:20. Air New Zealand flight operations head Hugh Pearce says the problem with the Airbus A320 ...

Emergency services were called to the single vehicle crash around 2.40 this afternoon. One person in a serious condition has been airlifted to Dunedin Hospital. Another person with moderate injuries ...

Urine test kit CheckToP detects the level of hormones in the body through a urine sample. Pharmac spokesperson Alexandra Compton, says over 9,000 people will benefit from access to these tests in the ...

Coach Petteri Koponen is hopeful of better cohesion as they integrate giant new centre Tacko Fall into the line-up The match tips off in 25 minutes. BASKETBALL WITH BK's NEW KOREAN FRIED CHICKEN.

Fire and Emergency New Zealand, says eleven vehicles initially attended the blaze behind Redclyffe Transfer Station, after receiving a call at 1:45pm. A spokesperson says it has contained a grass fire ...

A post-lunch flurry saw England chase the 104 required in 12.4 overs. Any conservative technical formalities were thrust aside as debutant Jacob Bethell with 50, Ben Duckett with 27 and Joe Root with ...

Assad's regime is known for rampant human rights abuses and its crackdown on the Arab Spring protests in 2011, which turned into a civil war that swept across Syria and has killed an estimated ...

Kazuma Kobori is up four places into a tie for 35th with two holes left in his round. Josh Geary is in a tie for 39th with seven holes to play...while Nick Vokes rose three places after an even par 72 ...

ND's making light work of the chase for 168 to beat Otago in Hamilton. Central Districts need 167 to beat Wellington in Napier. The Auckland-Canterbury rain-hit match on Eden Park's outer oval is ...