When podcast host Victoria Vanstone and her family go away anywhere, they leave phones at home. "We went to Thailand for six weeks last year and no-one was allowed a phone. I took a digital camera ...

One person died and four others were injured after two vehicles collided between Te Puru Creek Road and Valder Place. The road's closed - and motorists travelling between Thames and Coromandel town ...

Hopes from the Otago Sparks that their Hallyburton-Johnstone Shield form can carry over to the Super Smash T20 cricket competition The one-day leaders - who have won all six games by a bonus point - ...

An orange heavy rain warning's in place in the Wairoa district - with MetService expecting up to 200 millimetres more rain on top of what's already fallen. Metereologist Heath Gulery says this should ...

John Locke, an English philosopher argued that the human mind is a “tabula rasa” or “blank slate”. Everything that we, as humans, know comes from our experiences in the world. So should people take ...

“Talk to me before you believe anything!”, Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance) tells his monarch and master Henry VIII (played by Damien Lewis) in a pivotal scene in the penultimate episode of ...

Super maxi Comanche was leading the race off the far south coast of New South Wales, when they announced they were pulling out due to mainsail damage. They're one of seven retirements from the race ...

The search for a man who swam away from police during a chase in the Bay of Plenty has been stood down for the night The 48-year-old jumped into the harbour at Ohope Beach, around 6 last night, when ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

Australia's the hottest international destination, with more than 450-thousand bookings for Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane over the holiday period. Chief Operating Officer, Alex Marren says Queenstown ...

The crisis management team that represented Baldoni amid his alleged smear campaign against Lively is linked to several other embattled Hollywood stars. Ms Nathan and her firm, The Agency Group PR ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, in 2025. One key event for Lucy is its flyby of the inner main-belt ...