After a day out on the water, Jason Bethell didn't think twice when police officers asked for help.

Two Papatoetoe eateries have been announced as locations of interest, and anyone who visited around 1am on February 19 has been asked to get a test.

Nicola Willis says the now heritage listed Gordon Wilson flats should be demolished to make way for new housing.

A Canterbury schoolteacher was told she could not have a particular neurological condition because it was “too rare”.

Simon Bridges asks Police Commissioner Andrew Coster to treat gang members as "firmly" as he treats MPs.

Three people and real estate agent awaiting test results after attending viewing at home of family who later tested positive.

The girl was found in a running washing machine at her family's Christchurch home.

Qantas is speculating a trans-Tasman bubble will open by July. Air NZ says it'll be ready, no matter when it happens.

Two Wellington women have spoken out about their months-long battle with a gym they worked at after complaining a trainer had sexually assaulted them.

John Collins hit his friend Brent Bacon three times with a cricket bat at their Dunedin home, leaving him unmoving on the floor.

Man critically hurt after walking out of a Papatoetoe house surrounded by armed officers while carrying a gun.

A six-week crackdown has seen members of both the Mongrel Mob and Black Power arrested, and 12 search warrants carried out.

New Zealand diplomats are having "ongoing" conversations with Chinese officials about visiting Xinjiang, where alleged systematic abuse of Uighur is taking place.

Chrsitchurch family feared 12-year-old girl was abducted after mother heard a "muffled scream" on the driveway and when they went to find her, she was nowhere to be found.

A person was found dead after emergency services were called to a fire south of Hyde.

A temporary fix to Akaroa’s contaminated water problems will cost the city council $680,000.

Disgraced former MP for Clutha-Southland Hamish Walker's final bill for the taxpayer was $10,000, members' expense reports show.

Theresa Cooper knows what its like to enter a museum and not be able to properly engage with or understand much of the work on display.

A witness giving evidence in a trial of two brothers accused of stealing vehicles had to concede he had mistakenly identified a wheel as belonging to his ute on Thursday.

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