The biggest city in the Southern USA, makes a big deal out of big events.

A detective who spent three years looking for Madeleine McCann speaks out.

An infant whose parents left her with 40 broken bones has been adopted by a new family.

Sweat-inducing footage shows one brave resident appearing to step into thin air.

Are you sick of buying bags of lettuce only to find they rot before you get through them?

Horrified by her engagement photo, Haley Smith reveals how she lost 44kg and kept it off.

The biggest city in Texas is also big on choices for visitors.

Tonsil, throat, and other HPV-related cancers are on the rise.

The teen who killed four people in a drink-driving crash is still trying to dodge jail.

A Texas couple discovered an unpleasant surprise in their new home.

Booed and bloody, Mack Beggs dropped to his knees to celebrate his win of the TX girls wrestling title.

Texan man Andy Albertson weighed almost 150kg and was teased about his body.

Less than a fortnight before he died in a fiery plane crash in Melbourne, a US tourist wrote about how he was scared of flying.

The pilot involved in the Melbourne air crash was under investigation for a previous incident that had been deferred three times due to "workload".

Christopher Duntsch, a Texas neurosurgeon with 17 years of training and experience under his belt now faces life in prison.

11 year old Renee Eager is about to undergo brain surgery in the US state of Texas, which surgeons hope will allieviate seizures and fits of rage caused by a rare tumour. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

With approvals granted, the fight for those against the Dakota Access pipeline shifts to the courts.

They are the serial killers you've never heard of - mutilators, torturers and body defilers who collectively murdered hundreds and are still alive. WARNING: GRAPHIC

Over a year the 27-year-old teacher paid more than $28k - unwittingly, to the 14-year-old she was sleeping with.

The inner strength of a little girl starved, beaten and imprisoned in a tiny urine-soaked closet amazed her rescuers.

A woman took shelter in a bathtub and the tornado lifted the tub out of the home and deposited it in the woods - she still survived.

A former Texas middle-school teacher who was impregnated by a 13-year-old student has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

You may have thought Auckland house prices were bad, but check out these palatial homes from around the world that fetched huge sums.

A teen and her three young brothers have been gassed to death by a lethal pesticide sprayed under their Texas home.

Explore these wilderness areas and you'll find a staggering variety of animal species.

The last anyone heard of Brandon Lawson was in a terrified 911 call as he fled from unknown attackers after his vehicle broke down on a Texas highway.

Cheeseburgers, steak and peanut butter cups formed some of the last meals of the 19 men killed on America's death row in 2016. WARNING: Disturbing content.

A high school teacher has been arrested after a Snapchat flirtation with a student led to beer pong, nude selfies and sex.

Te Awamutu woman has met the love of her life living 11,711km away in Texas while playing a mobile farming game.

Isidro Zarate intervened when he saw a man pulling a woman's hair and beating her in a Texas parking lot. The man did, but only to reach for his gun.