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Psst! I’ve got a secret that can save you money. You tip too much when you travel overseas. In some cases, you hand out so much money in gratuities that people think you’re crazy ? and a little foolish.

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Four young children were saved from drowning on Saturday night while their mother sat nearby in a parked car, unaware that they were in danger.The children, believed to be aged between 8 and 12, were swimming at Mt Maunganui when…

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A commitment to combat climate change has gone the same way as social housing and lost favour with the new Citizens & Ratepayers council.City Vision leader Richard Northey says C&R leader David Hay has his head in the sand on…

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One of the highest expressions of Maori physical agility and dignity - the challenge - is being hijacked by creeping gang tendencies, Cabinet minister Shane Jones says.He says that at ceremonies around the country, he has seen…

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New Zealand historian Joel Hayward - who caused a furore with a 1993 thesis that questioned the validity of Holocaust history - is now a senior academic at the heart of the British defence Establishment.Dr Hayward, 44, is now…

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A fire burning in mature native forest in a remote area inland from Stratford is testing Department of Conservation firefighters. Crews have been flown in to fight the blaze near Aotuhia, and helicopters with monsoon buckets have…

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Eight people died in a horror weekend on the roads.A 62-year-old British woman died when a bus carrying 17 passengers rolled over a bank 27km south-west of Westport on the West Coast on Saturday.A 20-year-old British woman…

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A South Auckland man has described how he made several attempts to find the occupants of a blazing house yesterday before stumbling across a woman lying in a pool of blood.”Her eyes were open but she couldn’t speak at all. I tried…

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The U.S. dollar used to be the universal tourist currency, accepted almost anywhere, from the streets of Hanoi to the plains of Africa…

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Labour’s biggest affiliated union, the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union, has applied to the Electoral Commission to be registered as a “third party” under the new electoral laws.The move is not unexpected because…

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