In the United States, media reported this week that there were 1.3 million households in the top 1 percent, holding 30.8 percent of the country's wealth. The average net worth for each was US$38 ...

High schoolers from around the country ran lines and paced the floor of a Wellington school last week, preparing for a Shakespeare showcase.

"Happy Anniversary Babygirl. Eleven years and you still feel like my girlfriend!!!" Urban captioned a selfie of the couple in ...

ASB Classic winner and former world number six Gael Monfils will retire at the end of next season. Known for his athleticism ...

This weekend's Singapore Grand Prix is the 18th of 24 rounds with the competition heating up for the championship.

Auckland's Upper Harbour Motorway is partially closed after a digger fell off a truck. Police said State Highway 18 in ...

Over the past year a group of tā moko artists have studied over 200 toi moko, or Māori ancestral heads at Te Papa with the ...

Australia's most-capped test player James Slipper will retire from international rugby following Saturday's game against the ...

Winstone Aggregates is trying to acquire a 24 hectare block of regional park land adjacent to the quarry in exchange for three blocks of regenerated quarry land totalling 30 hectares.

The country's drug buying agency, Pharmac, has a new chief executive. Natalie McMurtry started in the high-profile role two ...

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting ...

University of Auckland professor Paul Kilmartin has made it to the age of 63 without a mobile phone - and he's determined to ...