New Zealand

Two online players have each pocketed $5.03 million after Saturday night's Powerball Must Be Won Draw rolled down from First Division — one ticket sold to a Wellington player, the other to someone in the Tasman region. Neither ticket matched all the Powerball First Division requirements, so the

Tonight's Powerball draw is the last of its kind — and Lotto NZ has made it a $10 million Must Be Won event to send the old game off with a bang. The draw, held this Saturday September 12, is the final one under the current 10-ball format. From

Media celebrity and now politician Paul Henry was in Invercargill on Wednesday part of his unlocked tour. He hosted a meeting and chat. Here is his full speech. I'm standing, the New Zealand I'm looking at is not as good, it's not as positive,

The Green Party wants to nationalise 120 supermarkets. The right thinks it's communism. The left thinks it's overdue. Everyone agrees the grocery duopoly is a problem — they just disagree on whether the cure is worse than the disease. The policy, branded KiwiMart, would force Foodstuffs and

Career firefighters in the south continue to strike twice a week, and today marks the 60th time they will stand on the street corner in Invercargill. But there's been a new change of guard in the Southern branch of the New Zealand Professional Firefighters Union (NZPFU) with Brent

Southland farmers may soon be able to pull gravel from rivers and their own properties without going through a resource consent process, under proposals announced by National at the South Island Election Conference. Invercargill MP Penny Simmonds has backed the plans, saying gravel build-up in local rivers is already a

Two SIT hairdressing students have made the national top 10 in one of New Zealand's most prestigious bridal hair competitions — and they've only been at this for 18 months. Haylee Clark and Holly Wolf, both second-year students at the Southern Institute of Technology, were announced as

Air New Zealand has posted a $242 million annual loss, its worst result in years, as fuel costs blown out by the Middle East conflict and a punishing run of engine problems overwhelmed solid gains in passenger revenue. The airline reported a pre-tax loss of $336 million for the year