Firefighters helped two people escape their cars after they drove into floodwaters overnight amid a deluge hitting Banks Peninsula. Widespread flooding has closed numerous roads on Banks Peninsula, ...

Israel’s government has approved a process to register land in the West Bank as “state property”, drawing condemnation from Arab nations and critics who said it would accelerate annexation of the ...

Robert Duvall, who played the smooth mafia lawyer in “The Godfather” and stole the show with his depiction of a ...

Tempers flared at a packed public meeting on Monday night about the meltdown at Wellington’s Moa Point sewage treatment plant ...

An eleventh-hour qualification spot will see one Kiwi pro slip between the tee box and the commentary box when the 105th New ...

Construction on the Rotorua Museum is due to finish in September, nearly a decade after it was closed, councillors have been ...

French authorities have opened a murder probe into the death of a far-right activist last week, a public prosecutor has said, in a killing the Government has blamed partly on the hard left. Quentin ...

Glen Eden and Henderson fire brigades had to cut both cars open using the jaws of life. Photo / Hayden Woodward Three people are in hospital - one with life-threatening injuries - after their cars ...

Get all three sports-related questions of varying difficulty (easy, medium and hard) and you claim the Herald hat-trick. Quiz compiled by Cameron McMillan. Want more quizzes? Test your knowledge in ...

The Kremlin has said that it “strongly rejected” an assessment by five European countries that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from poisoning two years ago, as his supporters marked the ...

Dark-humoured novel explores splintering life of man tormented by his schoolboy antics.

The ostensible reason for talking to Felicity Kendal – oh, of course you know who Felicity Kendal is – is that she is appearing in comedian Tom Sainsbury’s telly series Small Town Scandal, which is ...