France is to launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine.

Doc has confirmed about 40 black-backed gulls have died from what's believed to be avian botulism at the Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon, near Timaru. Half a world away from home, jobless and cashless on ...

Farra Engineering's Gareth Evans talks to business editor Sally Rae about doing business in the Dunedin for the past 161 years.

More general practices are closing their books, with over a third of doctors turning away new patients last year. In Southland, the Gore Health Centre has been running a waitlist since October.

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a ...

Instead of "just sitting on the fence" after a teen was stabbed at the bus hub, Pacific Trust Otago planned a ground-breaking three-year initiative to stop anything like it happening again. Since ...

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered "catastrophic" damage from a marine heatwave with some of its iconic coral reduced to rubble. Anne Munro was diagnosed shortly before Christmas and will be stepping ...

MPI is investigating after a video of a teen hitting and kicking a live octopus on a Bay of Plenty beach has emerged. A friend who was with a New Zealander when she was allegedly set on fire by her ex ...

People who drink coffee in the morning have a lower risk of dying from heart disease and a lower overall risk of dying compared with all-day coffee drinkers, according to international research. Four ...

US band Toto is bringing their Dogz of Oz tour as far south as Christchurch in April. The Prime Minister has hinted National will campaign on asset sales next year, saying an election win in 2026 ...

The Green Party wants clarity from the PM on the government's plans for privatisation, accusing him of "publicly entertaining ...

Wānaka's Luca Harrington has won gold in the men’s ski slopestyle at his debut X Games appearance in Aspen. Zoi Sadowski-Synnott has made history by landing the world’s first triple cork in a women’s ...