Fire and Emergency says it received several phone calls about the group shortlyafter 5pm. A crew from Whanganui in the process of rescuing them. Police are also at the scene.

The former Silver Ferns and Tactix defender will link up with the Giants for next year's Australian Super Netball campaign. The 66-test international spent nine of the past 11 seasons with the Tactix, ...

He is due in Palmerston North District Court tomorrow on two charges of wilfully setting fire to a property and one of possessing an offensive weapon. Emergency services found the Main Street house ...

The game had 10 different try scorers, with Otago flanker Lucas Casey and Wellington centre Matt Proctor collecting doubles.

All Blacks flanker Du'Plessis Kirifi is taking a measured approach as he starts in the number seven jersey for this morning's Rugby Championship clash against Argentina in Cordoba 17 Aug: Scott ...

Australia have come back from 22 points down to pull off an unlikely victory with 38 unanswered points. The two sides meet again in Cape Town next week. Wallabies coach Joe Schmidt says the Springboks ...

Porters Pass, SH73, between Canterbury and the West Coast is also expected to have snow from 9 tomorrow night. Up to 4 centimetres of snow could build about the summits, with lesser amounts lower down ...

The Bunnies forward has been slapped with a shoulder charge and two dangerous contact charges from the match and a total of $3000 worth of fines if he takes an early guilty plea. RUGBY LEAGUE COVERAGE ...

Fire and Emergency was called shortly before 4 this afternoon and arrived to find the home well involved in flames. It appears nobody was inside the building, and a fire investigator is now there.

Stats NZ has reported an annual food inflation rate of 5 percent in July while Foodstuff co-ops recorded an average year increase of 3.4 percent for their comparable basket of products. Beef, lamb, ...

Dr Kingsbury was an advisor at the 2005 peace talks that ended a brutal, three-decade separatist war in the Indonesian province of Aceh. He says both sides were caught in a "hurting stalemate" — a ...

A total of 15 baggage handlers have been arrested since June following a covert investigation into ongoing methamphetamine and cocaine seizures. Court documents show the network of baggage handlers at ...