In 1987, the American cartoonist Gary Larson drew one of his surreal Far Side sketches of two apes sitting on a branch.

As pop stars go Dave Ball was nothing much; quietly hunched over his keyboards pushing buttons, he was far from histrionic. However his ...

Jack DeJohnette made his name backing Miles Davis on the jazz-fusion classic Bitches Brew album, a high point in a six-decade-long musical ...

The Labour Party would offer doctors and nurse practitioners low-interest loans to set up new practices or buy into existing ones, if elected ...

The death toll from floods and landslides following cyclonic rains in the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 303.

A survey of more than 30,000 of New Zealand's Year 10 students has indicated that the perception of vaping is changing.

Queenstown skier Alice Robinson has ignited her season with a dominant win in the women's giant slalom at the World Cup in Colorado. Robinson ...

KiwiRail has been fined more than $200,000 for breaching health and safety laws when an employee fell 10 metres while installing a ...

US President Donald Trump said the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela should be considered "closed in its entirety," stirring anxiety ...

Kiwi Kazuma Kobori has slipped a shot behind the leaders after the third round of the Australian PGA Championship at the DP World Tour's ...

Councillors remain in the dark about how bad Wānaka’s wastewater woes are, a former whistleblower says. Queenstown Lakes district councillor ...

A crash near Bucklands Crossing, north of Dunedin, last night has resulted in serious injuries, police say.  A police spokesperson said ...