Addington Cup Day 2025: Sunshine, style and chat from the track

About 15,000 people turned out for the NZ Trotting Cup at Addington Raceway.

‘It’s all down to the people’: Plumbing firm celebrates 150 years of family legacy

Founded in 1875, Oakleys has traded continuously for 150 years.

‘Severe recession’: NZ's last great department store feeling squeeze

Managing director Jonathan Ballantyne says the retail sector faces tough times.

Why promising young rugby players are choosing league over the sport they grew up playing

One top sports agent says rugby league offers clearer pathways and far better pay.

Top prospect signs with Crusaders through 2028 as rising 'hybrid' talent

Coach Rob Penney says the goal is to turn Oli Mathis into a future All Black.

Pickleball: What is this billion-dollar sport doubling in size every year in NZ?

Global spending on pickleball gear is forecast to hit $5.4b by 2032.

How one risky bet became a cornerstone of Christchurch’s comeback

Its heritage-listed High St facade was nearly demolished after the 2011 quakes.

'It was carnage': Storm-battered North Canterbury counts cost of furious winds

Winds tore through Culverden, Rotherham and Waiau, wrecking homes and farms.

'The roof’s come off!': Family watches in horror as storm tears through house

Winds reached at least 109km/h before the Oxford roof detached.

'It’s just gutting': Kaikōura man devastated after house destroyed in blaze

Five homes were destroyed as gale-force winds whipped through the region.

Warriors sign teen rugby talent Harry Inch through to 2027

Andrew McFadden says Inch brings 'real toughness' to the Under-21 side.

Music legend swaps rock n roll lifestyle for school runs and symphony

Jon Toogood speaks to Mike Thorpe on life beyond Shihad.

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

Inside the state school dominating New Zealand college sport

More than 500 out-of-zone students missed out in the North Shore school's latest ballot.

'Gutted': Tasman loses rising star to NRL move

Inch had featured in the Crusaders' pre-season, impressing alongside James O’Connor.

Power rankings: New Zealand’s top sporting schools of 2025 revealed

Which school can claim to be the country’s biggest sporting powerhouse?

‘Not acceptable’: Police ditch rural shake-up plans after community, staff backlash

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers said he supported the decision.

50 years in TV news: The cameraman behind some of NZ's biggest stories

Mike Fitzgerald covered the Gulf War, Cave Creek, Pike River, quakes, and terror attacks.

'Incredibly grateful': Mum of missing Chch teen thanks searchers as efforts intensify

Police say more than 70 people have joined the search over the past week.

Mother of missing Christchurch teen thanks searchers as efforts intensify

Police say more than 70 people have joined the search over the past week.

Police release CCTV images of missing Chch teen Marley as search enters day six

Police have been searching for the 17-year-old across ‘steep rocky cliffs and dense bush’.

Desperate search: Family appeals for help to find missing 17-year-old

Mother urges Christchurch residents to check their security cameras.

'How many burgers can I get?': One woman's journey to kicking a binge-eating disorder

Nicole Gaviria shares her story on the battle of the binge.

Nudism, spies and 'tingle rays': Meet the candidate who has stood in every race since 1969

Tubby Hansen, 80, has thrown his hat in the ring once again.

Farm sold to Oz mines company for $25m to be 'offered to New Zealanders first'

Santana Minerals agreed to pay $25m for Ardgour Station in early July.

'My bloody hero': Amputee leaps into river to save fellow whitebaiter

Warwick 'Wally' Inwood, 76, says he was close to drowning in his chest waders.

Elton, Lady Di, Bowie, kings and queens: Inside the $150m revival of a rock 'n' roll hotel

Mike Thorpe reports on the restoration of a city's landmark building.

Kumeū nursery has 'about a day' to save millions of dollars worth of stock after fire

Support poured in from fellow growers and competitors after the blaze.

Razor’s successor: The quiet Super coach on winning, losing, ego, and dropping the C-bomb

Rob Penney sits down with Mike Thorpe to talk about two contrasting seasons.

'I just felt free': Runner's journey to World Transplant Games

The World Transplant Games marked his dream of representing New Zealand on the track.

The South Island ‘pie belt’: Ex-tradies put smoko break experience into high-quality pies

Sanga's was opened in Cromwell's industrial zone by two tradies and a mate.

Highest-paid council CEOs in New Zealand revealed

Gore paid $771,558 to three chief executives, ranking second after Christchurch.