A rule change earlier this year appears to have led to a sharp increase in the number of applications for emergency housing being declined. When we die, most of us will end up in a brown box, but the ...

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Costs for four planned facilities at Green Island have more than doubled to $42m since an estimate four years ago, but the DCC says there is no budget blowout of its resource recovery project. A ...

Ōtepoti's only hip-hop festival is poised to have its biggest year yet. A silent pandemic of drug-resistant infections has ...

President-elect Donald Trump's Republican Party is set to control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, ...

A former National prime minister has warned the ACT Party is "inviting civil war" with its attempt to define the principle of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in law. Mike Johnson says a congressional ethics ...

A year on from the 2023 election, Labour leader Chris Hipkins reflects on his prime ministership with ODT political editor Mike Houlahan and considers how he can get the job back. The government says ...

Police say three women facing shoplifting charges left the courtroom and went on to steal the number plates off a vehicle parked directly outside. A crew of volunteer firefighters encountered "every ...

Police say the supply of methamphetamine into the South has been "significantly disrupted" owing to recent raids targeting a motorcycle gang's drug network. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has given ...