A Navy sailor found guilty of sex attacks on three female comrades has been sentenced to two years in the Services Correctional Establishment detention facility.The man, who has interim name suppression, was also dismissed from…

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One person has serious injuries after a single-vehicle crash in Oropi. Police were called to reports a vehicle had gone down a bank on Oropi Rd at 2.15pm. A police spokesman said the sole occupant of the vehicle was reportedly…

An Auckland woman stranded on the Gold Coast when quarantine-free travel was suspended after cases of Covid-19 were discovered in the community is calling for the Government to speed up decision-making on when green flights resume…

The door is being opened to 300 overseas qualified teachers to come to New Zealand under a new class border exception, Education Minister Chris Hipkins says.Teachers already employed in New Zealand, but who left the country and…

Police are searching for the driver of a car from which a body has been pulled after it crashed into a hydroelectric canal in Canterbury early this morning.The body of one person has been recovered by police from a car that crashed…

A plane has “tipped over on landing”, injuring two people – one seriously.The incident at Dargaville Aerodrome, 57km west of Whāngārei, was reported to police as a plane crash at 12.15pm, a police spokeswoman said….

Mexico's state-owned oil company has said it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending flames boiling to the surface in the Gulf waters.

Petroleos Mexicanos said it had dispatched fire control boats to pump more water over the flames.

Pemex, as the company is known, said nobody was injured in the incident in the offshore Ku-Maloob-Zaap field.

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The leak near dawn on Friday (local time) occurred about 150m from a drilling platform. The company said it had brought the gas leak under control about five hours later.

But the accident gave rise to the strange sight of roiling balls of flame boiling up from below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

The company is investigating the incident.

Covid-19 has been an all-dominating distraction from international relations, but also shows how important New Zealand’s relationships with other countries are, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says.Opening the two-day annual…

The Government is considering buying “one or two” of the 31 hotels across New Zealand currently being used as MIQ facilities. Covid-19 response Minister Chris Hipkins said in a statement today the purchase of MIQ hotels was part…