New Zealand councils in general are highly indebted, and the credit quality is deteriorating, S&P Global Ratings director Anthony Walker says.

Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams at work on Sunday ...

One person has died and several people are missing after record rainfall brought flooding and landslides to coastal Japan, in ...

Newly appointed Commissioner Lester Levy, following the Government’s disestablishment of the Board of Health New Zealand (Te Whatu Ora), has much ... response of the health ministry to the ...

Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, killed at least one ...

Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, have killed at least ...

Indonesia releases New Zealand pilot captured by Papua independence rebels; Tens of thousands of people also evacuated in Japan; South Korea to revise laws regulating ...

Heavy rain has pounded Japan’s northcentral region of Noto which triggered landslides and swollen rivers to overflow, flooding homes and stranding some residents in the region still recovering from a ...

A 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck off northern New Zealand on Friday, according to the US Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred in the Kermadec Islands area at 12.23 a.m. local time (1223GMT).

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck Papua New Guinea on Thursday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said ...