Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand police are hunting a thief who stole two 123-year-old feathers of an extinct bird worth thousands of dollars each from a museum exhibit, a news report said Tuesday.
The white-tipped tail feathers were taken from one (...)
Wellington (dpa) – Finnish diplomats have asked New Zealand for an explanation after Wellington's third-ranked minister made derogatory comments in parliament about the Scandinavian country, officials said Monday.
The Finnish embassy in Canberra, (...)
Wellington (dpa) – A crisis has hit New Zealand breakfast tables: The Marmite is running out.
And if you don't know what Marmite is, you're not a New Zealander. As the Sanitarium Health Food Co, which has made the sticky brown breakfast spread (...)
Wellington (dpa) – Tongan King George Tupou V, a reformist who introduced democracy to his Pacific island state after 130 years of feudal monarchy, has died at the age of 63.
The king, who died Sunday in a Hong Kong hospital, was monarch for less (...)
Wellington (dpa) – The Filipino captain of the cargo ship Rena, which ran aground on a New Zealand reef in October, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to charges that could see him jailed for seven years, news reports said.
The skipper, whose name has (...)
Wellington (dpa) – New Zealand's conservative government announced details Monday of a program to get welfare beneficiaries working, including single mothers at home with young children.
Social Development Minister Paula Bennett said the (...)
WELLINGTON: Television star Lucy Lawless and five activists prepared Sunday to spend a third night atop a 53-metre rig on an oil drilling ship in New Zealand.
Greenpeace claimed growing worldwide support for their protest bid to stop it sailing (...)
Wellington (dpa) – Thirty-three survivors of a pod of pilot whales that twice stranded on a remote New Zealand beach this week were euthanized Thursday after beaching themselves again overnight, news reports said.
Conservation Department local (...)
Wellington (dpa) – Volunteers succeeded Tuesday in refloating 39 survivors of a pod of 99 pilot whales that stranded on a remote beach at the top of New Zealand's South Island, news reports said.
The animals were refloated on the morning's high (...)
Wellington (dpa) – The crippled cargo ship Rena, which ran aground three months ago on a New Zealand reef, broke in two after being pounded by 6-meter sea swells overnight, officials said Sunday.
The stern section of the 47,000-ton vessel is now (...)
Wellington (dpa) – A 47,000-ton container ship was leaking oil and spilling cargo on beaches Friday, three months after running aground on a New Zealand reef.
Clean-up teams mopped up oil on two of the North Island's most popular beaches and (...)