Current Affairs

The teenager had been radicalised online and was part of a programme designed to counter violent extremism.

The drug appears as a yellow powder and has led to a person being hospitalised in the Auckland region.

A sexual assault complainant spent years trying to extract information from the police to find out why their alleged attacker was never charged.

The government claims Aucklanders will avoid a projected 25.8 percent water rates increase with the coalition's Local Water Done Well plan.

If the bird flu infecting cows in the US figures out human-to-human transmission, the timing could not be worse, a prominent Kiwi flu researcher says. Audio

University of Auckland staff are concerned by a move to block a protest encampment on campus to call for support for the rights of Palestinians.

Twenty years has passed since the historic hīkoi against the controversial Foreshore and Seabed Act reached Parliament.

The midwifery programme at the University of Waikato hopes to address the region's 50 percent midwife shortfall.

Mayor Wayne Brown has told Auckland Transport to "shut up and listen" as he pushes ahead with his election promises.

Undeclared allergens in food were the leading cause for safety recalls last year, with milk allergens triggering the most recalls.

Police are appealing for information after two people were robbed and threatened by youths at a West Auckland bus stop.

Jake and Callum Robinson's parents said they were "heading to the US/Mexico to be as close as possible to the area where they were last seen".

An advocate for survivors of sexual abuse says the true extent of former policeman and convicted rapist Brad Shipton's crimes may never come to light.

Police executing a raid in Taumarunui say they have seized a stash of drugs, guns and cash.

Police believe people may have videoed an assault at a Mount Maunganui shopping centre that hospitalised a woman and left shoppers stunned.

A small Taranaki town is pushing ahead with lowering fixed speed limits near schools, despite the government's intention to introduce variable speed limits around schools by the end of the year.

Analysis - It is a buyer's market but high interest rates are keeping them out; house values have dropped, leaving sellers with reduced bargaining power.