Art collector Greg Moyle has promised 20 artworks worth around $5m to the Auckland City Art Gallery. It is one the most significant bequests in the gallery's history and includes works by Rita Angus ...

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The Dynamotion dance troupe are back with a new show for the Christmas season. Featuring big dance numbers and lip-syncing to narration, the format of the comedy show is an audience favourite. Created ...

Venezuela's foreign minister has denounced the directive as an "extravagant, illegal, and unjustified aggression against the ...

Police have arrested a man after a gun was fired near a popular swimming hole in Thames, Coromandel. Police were called to the scene on Kauaeranga Valley Road at about 5pm on Saturday, after reports ...

The two new high security units, set to be built by the early 2027, "will add more capacity" to the prison system, ...

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After her giant slalom win, Alice Robinson climbs to second in the standings behind runner-up, Austrian Julia Scheib.

The annual parade starts on the corner of Mayoral Drive and Cook street, with all inner-city roads closed until 4.30pm.

ACC has disbanded its toxicology panel that firefighters take their cancer claims to - while welcomed by the pros, volunteers ...

When the Aramoana shooting happened in 1990, Bristol-born Paul Mullen was living near Dunedin. The tragic event, which saw many people he knew injured or killed, piqued Dr Mullen's curiosity in ...

The decades-long misconception that autism is a "male or boy thing" has left a lot of women in the lurch, an academic says.