State Highway 2 - Matawai Road is closed between Gisborne and Opotiki, because of multiple slip. In the eastern Bay of Plenty, State Highway 2 is closed by flooding south-east of Whakatane. Fresh snow ...

The 49-year-old actor is the nephew of late 'Cheers' star George - who died in May at the age of 76 - and recalled that his uncle was something of a "hero" to him who taught him how to really "care" ...

Putin has been prepared to commit a virtually inexhaustible supply of expendable cannon fodder to continue his country’s war ad infinitum. Russia has typically won its wars this way – by attrition – ...

Liam Hockings's family says the tragedy uncovered serious concerns about safety, and conditions in some accommodation - particularly for the most vulnerable people. They say lives depend on it.

The letter - provided to Playbill - said of LuPone's comments about Lewis: "it is a blatant act of racialised disrespect. It constitutes bullying. It constitutes harassment. It is ...

This year viewership dropped 13 per cent to the event's second-lowest TV audience in 25 years, despite a change to four teams playing a three-game mini-tournament. The move to bring a stronger ...

She will be missed." Mahaffey won the supporting comedy actress Emmy in 1992 for her work in 'Northern Exposure', which aired from 1990 to 1995. She was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award ...

To Shakespeare’s Hamlet we humans are “the paragon of animals”. But recent advances in genetics are suggesting that humans are far from being evolution’s greatest achievement.

Since May 2023, when five people died and 20 were injured, officers have been investigating whether the state of the building and its fire safety systems contributed to the tragedy. Police say the ...

In the upper North Island, emergency services have been responding to dozens of reports of surface flooding, and trees falling on homes and power lines. In the central North Island, about 70 ...

Vladimir Putin vowed Russia will seek revenge for Ukraine's massive drone attack on Moscow's war machinery, according to US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump took to Truth Social to reveal that he and ...

But Africa has the highest rate of forest loss in the world. About 3.9 million hectares of African forest – the size of about 381 million soccer fields – was destroyed every year between 2010 and 2020 ...