A chronically ill Hawkes Bay girl whose charity event was snubbed by celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay is getting life-saving surgery.

A post-mortem has found a teen whose body was found in a Wainuiomata creek last night drowned.

Police are treating the death of a teenager whose body was found in a creek in Wainuiomata as unexplained.

Auckland stand-up comedian Ben Hurley gives insight into his reading preferences.

Flooding in NSW looks set to cost the state and federal governments billions of dollars in relief.

Labour leader Phil Goff today called for Botany MP' Pansy Wong's breach of international travel rebate rules to be referred to the Auditor-General, after she was cleared of any serious misuse of the perk today.

Just how influential are the movies in transforming audiences into potential tourists?

Wellington's Tranz Metro suspended all services in and out of the city bar one after a signals failure this evening, causing mass disruption at peak commuter time.

Emergency services were called to Wellington International Airport after a plane was forced to return shortly after take-off this afternoon.

Minor damage was reported in Masterton and near Otaki after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake this afternoon.