People are warned to look out for toxic sea slugs on all beaches across the Auckland region, after a sea slug was found on the shores of the Manukau Harbour.

Without official radio play or an album in stores, budding band six60 has managed to consistently sell out shows around the country and get to number one on the iTunes charts. Synth player Marlon Gerbes speaks to Shabnam Dastgheib of NZPA about the band's upcoming national tour.

Fishing isn't regarded as the most glamorous vocation in the world, but the stars came out to walk the red carpet for the inaugural ITM Fishing Media Awards at the Copthorne Hotel & Resort in the Bay of Islands recently.

With nearly 1000 guesses from around New Zealand, Emma Lewis (20) is no closer to knowing exactly where she is 'Lost in a Box'.

Family First NZ says that the upcoming review of child support announced today should be accompanied by a review of child contact policies.

The Rock radio station had an exclusive interview with megastars Bono and The Edge from U2 that will air tomorrow at 7.30am.

This has been the only New Zealand interview to promote The U2 360° Tour that will come to Auckland on 25 November this year.

Defending champions New Zealand will face host nation England in the Women's Rugby World Cup 2010 final at the Twickenham Stoop on Sunday after contrasting semi final victories over France and Australia respectively.

The Rock radio station had an exclusive interview with megastars Bono and The Edge from U2 that will air tomorrow at 7.30am. This has been the only New Zealand interview to promote The U2 360 Tour that will come to Auckland on 25 November this year.

Smart Pay (NZX: SPY), New Zealand's leading merchant services provider today announced that it had won the contract to upgrade listed corporate food retailer Restaurant Brands to an integrated EFTPOS solution and call centre payments gateway.

Auckland's Mt Smart Stadium is ramping up its capacity for the U2 360˚ Tour later this year.

Two Christchurch car rental companies have been ordered to pay more than $40,000 in fines and reparations for misleading mainly overseas visitors.

Poor Debrahlee Lorenzana, a victim of her looks fired by management at Citigroup Inc, because male colleagues and supervisors were to busy drooling over her to concentrate on their work.

The Government's new investment in Health continues with approval of a $65 million redevelopment of Whakatane Hospital, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced while visiting the hospital today.

New Zealand Football today announced a multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal described as the biggest in the history of the sport in this country.

Fresh snow contributed to a "creative" half pipe competition at the 2010 Uni Snow Games at Snow Park, near Wanaka, today (Thursday).

Event manager Cam Craighead said persistent snowfall all morning slowed down the transitions.

By Chris Ormond of NZPA

Wellington, Sept 2 NZPA - A switch to a republic could be seamless for New Zealand and the most practical time to change would be at the end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, says former deputy prime minister Michael Cullen.

After almost two years in government, and five years after National claimed that failure to pay child support was tantamount to 'child neglect', the best National can do is a discussion document, says Labour Revenue spokesperson Stuart Nash.

New Zealand is being urged to take a fresh look at the way it cares for the elderly to eliminate loneliness, helplessness and boredom.

Lower Hutt Police are continuing the hunt for the firearms involved in an incident in Waiwhetu last week.

AVG Technologies, developers of the world's most popular free anti-virus software, today announced a limited public beta test of its new online tool, AVG Threat Labs.