7+ hour, 8+ min ago   (232+ words) The Department of Conservation says it is unlikely it will ever know how a dolphin found decapitated on a Coromandel beach died. DoC are investigating after the marine mammal was found on Pauanui Beach on September 7. In a statement to…...

7+ hour, 56+ min ago   (390+ words) Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will speak to media at the penultimate post-Cabinet press conference of the parliamentary term in the Beehive at 4pm. Luxon will provide an update on the economy alongside Education Minister Erica Stanford, who is expected to discuss…...

7+ hour, 52+ min ago   (113+ words) A man has been taken to hospital after a shark attack in Western Australia. The state government and local ambulance service said the man, in his 50s, was attacked by a shark on Glenfield Beach in Geraldton, about 400km north of Perth....

8+ hour, 15+ min ago   (292+ words) Indonesian rescuers searched on Monday for more than 100 people missing after a ferry capsized in rough seas, with aircraft, naval vessels and divers deployed to find survivors, the country’s top rescue official said. The Virgo Transport 8, which authorities said carried…...

15+ hour, 34+ min ago   (747+ words) By RNZ Pacific Reporters An Australian pilot who helped locate survivors after a ferry disaster in Vanuatu says “it is a miracle anyone survived”. The MV Matui sank in rough seas on Friday morning, and more than 30 people remain missing....

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1243+ words) Trapped in a ravine on Mt Popomanaseu in the Solomon Islands, the ground shifting beneath him, Auckland teenager Luca Zylstra-Law had one thought: his parents. The nights were the worst. “There was so much going through my mind. Will I…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (349+ words) One person was killed and more than 100 were rescued on Sunday after a ferry sailing between the Indonesian islands of Java and Borneo was hit by bad weather, rescue officials said. The Virgo Transport 8, carrying 243 passengers and crew, had lost…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (647+ words) The bodies of 41 victims of the worst Philippines ferry disaster in over a decade made their way through the blue waters of a resort area on Sunday, bound for a dock where forensic investigators awaited them. Days after a fire…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (415+ words) Auckland’s long-anticipated City Rail Link got off to a bumpy start this morning as a small fire caused delays across the network. Excited passengers who woke early to be among the first people to use New Zealand’s largest public transport…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (838+ words) A young woman has been ostracised from her family after revealing she was twice sexually assaulted by her father, with her mother telling a jury he was the breadwinner. In June, the man, in his 50s, was found not guilty of…...