Police took a person with stab wounds to hospital after the incident on Friday afternoon.

An ongoing police investigation into the West Coast religious community has resulted in at least two men and a boy being charged.

Drive-through vaccination centres, trained-up students and ultra-cold freezers could be part of the roll-out of Covid-19 protection.

Coroner offers a damning indictment of agencies that failed a five-year-old boy likely murdered by his mother's boyfriend.

One resident is washing his car multiple times a week, as dust from the development across the road makes it look “like I drove through a farm”.

A 47-year-old man has appeared in court charged with murdering Auckland businesswoman Elizabeth (Ying) Zhong two months ago.

Wiki Samuel was about to celebrate the national day until a councillor knocked on his door with a petition likely to limit Māori representation.

Pacific Aerospace, which employs more than 100 staff, is in "financial distress" and had its certificates suspended.

MP responsible for a National Party ad mocking new Labour MP over dietary supplements has been sent to disciplinary committee.

A man has been let off paying a further 45 years of reparation to TAIC after $100 a week for nine years.

Justin Rankin is alleged to have imported the drug over nearly four years, which, on the street, has the potential to cause the equivalent of $288m in community harm.

Its president has called for a review of the defence force rent increases, with some families facing increases of over 50 per cent.

Two people are “lucky” to be alive after being caught up in an avalanche on Mt Earnslaw near Queenstown.

The first phase of the Covid-19 vaccine roll-out is ahead of schedule, but community health providers want more information about the wider roll-out

After swapping meth for sugar, a Rotorua drug dealer was beaten so badly he needed a hole drilled into his skull to release the blood.

A 4.9-magnitude quake which struck deep under the sea floor was felt by thousands, from Nelson to Taranaki.

Most of the Wellington region will come under a sprinkler ban from midnight Friday following high water usage and falling river levels.

The details of Waikato police's new unmarked patrol vehicle were cleverly masked. Or so they thought.

Train services to and from the Hutt Valley had been cancelled on Friday afternoon because of a track obstruction.

Residents in the affected Dunedin towns are still advised not to drink water from their taps until further notice.