Articles by AAP, Frances Cook, Michael Sergel
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National
Cost of insuring a Kiwi home rising six times faster than incomes
Monday, 6 May 2024, 8:18AMThe cost of insuring a home has risen six times faster than incomes over the past year and the cost of insuring what’s inside...
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National
Home insurance costs soar to highest level since Canterbury quakes- report
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 5:33PMThe cost of insuring a home has risen six times faster than incomes over the past year and the cost of insuring what’s inside...
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Science
Scientists break down in tears over 'horrifying' Great Barrier Reef crisis
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 4:37PMScientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by...
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World
Teen armed with knife shot dead by police in Australia
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 4:10PMAn allegedly radicalised teenager armed with a large kitchen knife has been shot dead by police in Western Australia. The...
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World
Recording of Trump's conversation exposes plan to buy the silence of Playboy model
Friday, 3 May 2024, 4:13PMNEW YORK (AP) — Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump heard a recording Thursday of him discussing with his then-lawyer...
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World
Aussie men commit hundreds of 'predatory' child abuse acts, some at a childcare centre
Thursday, 2 May 2024, 10:04PMWARNING: This story deals with sexual offending and may be distressing. A court has been told in shocking detail the acts...
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World
Million-dollar fish! Teen hooks huge prize in competition
Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 8:55PMA 19-year-old man has snagged the catch of a lifetime, reeling in a tagged barramundi worth A$1 million in Australia’s richest...
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Sport
'Pumped for challenge': Warriors won't shy away from task ahead
Friday, 26 April 2024, 1:01PMRest, refocus and try to rediscover their winning recipe – quickly. That’s coach Andrew Webster’s plan for the Warriors,...
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World
Australia PM responds to injured Bondi hero’s desperate plea
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 2:11PMAustralia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed the offer of a permanent visa will be made to an injured Pakistani...
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World
Teen arrested over terrorist church stabbing on good behaviour bond at time of attack
Tuesday, 16 April 2024, 3:54PMPolice are treating a knife attack at a western Sydney church as a terrorist act. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after...
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Sport
Racing bosses confident Ellerslie will be cleared
Monday, 15 April 2024, 7:35AMAuckland racing bosses are “very confident” Saturday’s Easter Handicap meeting will be held at Ellerslie. Ellerslie’s new...
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World
Aussie brutally murdered by flatmate, left in bin was 'blind to killer's evil'
Monday, 8 April 2024, 1:38PMA frail man brutally murdered by his housemate took him in because of the compassion that blinded him to his killer’s evil,...
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Sport
Souths star facing ban for 'stupid' act against Shaun Johnson
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 3:24PMThe South Sydney Rabbitohs’ nightmare NRL season has taken another hit with Latrell Mitchell facing a ban of up to four games...
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World
Coral bleaching hits 75 percent of Great Barrier Reef
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 2:35PMCoral bleaching driven by climate change has hit three-quarters of the Great Barrier Reef as the Australian federal government...
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World
One dead as NSW residents mop up after record-breaking downpours
Sunday, 7 April 2024, 2:07PMA man has died and more than 160 people have required rescuing as a deluge across eastern NSW caused landslips, flash flooding...
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Sport
Kiwis hopeful to become NRL's tallest player with Broncos debut
Thursday, 4 April 2024, 1:27PMGiant Brisbane prop Ben Te Kura has been backed to perform on his NRL debut in a baptism of fire against fierce rivals Melbourne...
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World
'Don't know what to do': Two widows share their grief after swimming pool tragedy
Wednesday, 3 April 2024, 3:15PMThe widows of the father and son who died trying to save a two-year-old girl from a Gold Coast swimming pool have broken...
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World
Australian aid worker killed in Gaza by air strike
Tuesday, 2 April 2024, 1:09PMAn Australian woman is reportedly among a group of aid workers killed by an Israeli air strike that hit their vehicle in Gaza. According...
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World
'An emotional scene': Two men who drowned saving toddler named
Tuesday, 2 April 2024, 10:45AMThe deaths of a man and his father while trying to save a toddler who fell into a Gold Coast pool have prompted authorities...
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World
Gold Coast mass overdose: Kiwi dies celebrating her 40th birthday
Monday, 1 April 2024, 3:50PMA woman has died and a second was in critical condition after overdosing in Queensland’s southeast. Australian police have...
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Sport
Rufer stomping incident: Phoenix survive controversial red card in win
Sunday, 31 March 2024, 4:11PMThe Wellington Phoenix have taken another step towards football history. With four matches to play, they have extended their...
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Sport
Controversial Ex-Wallaby makes try-scoring return to rugby
Sunday, 31 March 2024, 12:53PMDual-code international Israel Folau has taken just four minutes to put himself on the scoresheet in Japan Rugby League One...
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World
Watch: The Aussie town under strict curfew after wild riots, 'emergency situation'
Wednesday, 27 March 2024, 8:45PMAn emergency has been declared in Alice Springs by the Northern Territory government after a group of young people attacked...
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World
'Substantial miscarriage of justice': After 40 years behind bars, man claiming innocence could walk free
Tuesday, 26 March 2024, 1:12PMOne of Australia’s longest-serving prisoners could be about to walk out of jail after 40 years behind bars for a crime he...