JOAN PLOWRIGHT Actress Joan Plowright was a central figure in the reimagining of British theatre. Although Timothy West never played the greatest stage roles at the National Theatre and the Royal ...

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been served an Interpol arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court on his arrival at Manila's main airport, the... Governments at every level ...

Reed waka were essential for life in the south, writes Seán Brosnahan. Photography is a colonial art form, historically ...

West Coast newlyweds Jade and Jason Webster did not let their disabilities stop them from having the wedding of their dreams on Valentines Day. Hector's dolphins have been enjoying a freshwater detour ...

The associate education minister says the government had known for "weeks" that school lunch provider Libelle was experiencing financial difficulties, but not the full extent.

When the Marsden Fund was established in 1994, the government designed it "to fund excellent fundamental research". For astronomers like me, the period near full moon is an excuse to be anywhere but ...

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 ...

A man has been charged over the death of a woman fatally shot at a Whangārei park last week. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says parents who are dissatisfied with the new school lunch programme ...

Photography is a colonial art form, historically feared by Māori people. Māui’s fingerprints are all over Orokonui’s newest inhabitants, Madison Kelly writes. The latest "fountain of youth" pill is ...

A $2 million fundraising campaign has been launched to save the Whakatipu’s most historic wall from tumbling down. Queenstown Lakes residents are wary of proposals providing a false sense of hope in ...