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Meanwhile, Erica Stanford says last week was 'a bad week' the party as its MP dismiss chances of an electoral wipeout.

A person has been seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash at Isla Bank, west of Invercargill. The road was closed at the intersection of Fairfax-Isla Bank and Isla Bank-Flints Bush Roads as a result ...

Convicted sex offender Timothy Jago has been stripped of his Surf Life Saving honours, awards and life membership. The disgraced former ACT Party president was found guilty in 2024 of sexually abusing ...

Billionaire businessman Jared Novelly is the Trump's nominee to be US Ambassador to New Zealand, Niue, the Cook Islands and ...

Guyon Espiner spoke with Dr Dougal Sutherland, Senior Supervising Psychologist at Victoria University of Wellington about the long tail of psychological impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has left us ...

Rugby Australia has confirmed a new funding agreement currently being discussed with Fiji, Samoa and Tonga will enable a new ...

This year's muster of Kaimanawa wild horses in the Central North Island will go ahead after the Department of Conservation backed down from plans not to fund it. That decision's been welcomed by a ...

The latest news from America with correspondent Laura Taglianetti in New York.

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown says it is not his council's responsibility to get people to vote in local elections. Less than a third of Aucklanders voted in the 2025 local elections. Just 29 percent or ...

Markets lurched back today after big losses yesterday and oil dipped back down after Donald Trump said the US had made "major strides" and that the war against Iran was "pretty much complete." Westpac ...

World & Pacific News for Monday 9 March 2026. Previous Episode: Saturday, 7 March 2026; Next Episode: Tuesday, 10 March 2026 ...