It's surf's up in the small Waikato town of Raglan, as it hosts the New Zealand Surfing Championships, and locals are excited for what it means for the town. The World Surf League arrived at Manu Bay ...

Poet, memoirist and scholar Ingrid Horrocks has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives, a story collection that ...

Since making his debut on the World Surf League qualifying series (QS) in 2010, Stairmand has enjoyed big results, event wins ...

NZ has been waiting fifty years for the CT to come knocking. Now it has, a 15-year-old from Raglan has answered the call.

Wellington essayist Ingrid Horrocks has won the major prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for her fiction debut, All Her Lives. The collection, which follows nine women across nine ...

For a long time, New Zealand has thought of itself as sitting at the end of the global supply chain. Distant, dependent, and ...

A Hawke’s Bay poet has won a top national literary prize for her debut collection. Nafanua Purcell Kersel of Maraekakaho in ...

A late-night flight from Auckland bound to Tauranga was turned around after lanterns floating into the airspace sparked ...

Health NZ public health medicine specialist Dr Richard Vipond said people should get their yearly flu vaccine ahead of the ...

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