Hauraki Rail Trail cyclists will need to take their own own toilet paper and hand sanitiser after two toilet stops were left vandalised in a series of attacks.

Emergency services are attending a fatal crash at Southbridge in rural Canterbury, where a car and a truck have collided.

Someone had had enough of people parking in the mobility car park outside a set of shops in Tauranga and did not hold back.

The 68-year-old named only as Anna has disappeared from the Waikato town of Matamata.

They look like they could be the real thing but anyone forking out over these fake parking tickets would instead be paying someone's rates bill.

Both people on board are believed to be safe after the yacht Tribe went missing off the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula.

The prime minister has written about Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall for Time Magazine's latest list of top influential people.

The man died in hospital on Wednesday following an assault at the weekend.

Officials have found a genome “similarity” between new Auckland cases and an MIQ guest from late 2020, which they are calling a “very unlikely” source.

If it ruptured, an expert believes it could produce the same level of shaking Christchurch had during the 2010 Darfield quake.

Alf Vincent's lawyer is relieved the dementia sufferer, 83, did not die behind bars.

Other Auckland schools have been able to open, but Papatoetoe High has to wait until next week.

Alexandra is expected to reach 31C this weekend. Here's what the last week of February has in store for you.

No passengers will be allowed on a NZ flight to the Cook Islands on Friday despite the end of the recent lockdown.

Residents and businesses in a Canterbury tourist hotspot have been boiling their drinking water since dead animals were found in a reservoir a week ago.

There were changes all round, including 11 last-minute alterations from mayor Andy Foster, as Wellington City Council ripped apart its draft 10-year plan on Thursday.

And the library collection budget will also be slashed by 40 per cent over the next two years in an effort to free up room in a squeezed 10-year budget.

An Auckland teenager has become the 11th person to swim across Foveaux Strait.

The first people to get the Covid-19 vaccine on Friday will be the 100 vaccinators who will then start to vaccinate those working at the border.

The Government is to pay for sanitary products for school students nationwide in a bid to tackle period poverty.