France is to launch a six-year renovation of the Louvre in Paris, enlarging the world's most-visited museum to make room for the huge crowds who now cram inside the palace on the banks of the Seine.

Doc has confirmed about 40 black-backed gulls have died from what's believed to be avian botulism at the Waitarakao Washdyke Lagoon, near Timaru. Half a world away from home, jobless and cashless on ...

More general practices are closing their books, with over a third of doctors turning away new patients last year. In Southland, the Gore Health Centre has been running a waitlist since October.

Police are investigating the unexplained death of a woman at a Queenstown property yesterday. In a statement, police said emergency services ...

Instead of "just sitting on the fence" after a teen was stabbed at the bus hub, Pacific Trust Otago planned a ground-breaking three-year initiative to stop anything like it happening again. Since ...

As the Covid-19 pandemic brings the world into uncharted waters, Star Media journalists and photographers continue to report local stories that matter everyday - yours. For more than 152 years our ...

Economic Growth Minister Nicola Willis has joined the government voices urging more mining, but the opposition says it is a ...

The Green Party wants clarity from the PM on the government's plans for privatisation, accusing him of "publicly entertaining ...

The Great Barrier Reef has suffered "catastrophic" damage from a marine heatwave with some of its iconic coral reduced to rubble. Anne Munro was diagnosed shortly before Christmas and will be stepping ...

MPI is investigating after a video of a teen hitting and kicking a live octopus on a Bay of Plenty beach has emerged. A friend who was with a New Zealander when she was allegedly set on fire by her ex ...