The New Zealand government will decide if flights to Western Australia will resume, as Perth ends its snap lockdown.

Police located eight offenders who took off with a "large quantity" of jewellery after allegedly robbing two jewellery stores.

"Sometimes this service is as fast or faster than a car ... I’ve been on those journeys when you’ve been absolutely stuck, and this is more reliable.”

Auckland Council says the situation became so dire that lives are being put at risk.

Scott Buckley didn’t see an oncoming car as he made the turn, a mistake that had a "horrendous" impact.

A 42-year-old man will appear in court today charged with the death of the woman.

A 28-year-old man accused of murder at a social housing unit had allegedly been on a crime spree, including robbing three men of their cars and strangling one.

Eden Nicolson left a Christchurch hospital on Monday afternoon, but was found later in the day.

The names of the victim and the accused remain suppressed, as council sends representatives to the Wellington flats where death occurred.

Petrol station owner Zahid Chaudhry, who was been robbed at gunpoint in 2012, managed to repel the group who fled as he deployed a fog cannon.

Green School New Zealand’s new principal Caroline Rennie came across her dream job by chance.

A man is expected to appear in court on Monday after a driver was seriously assaulted following a crash in Hāwera.

The man had to be rescued after he was caught out without a life jacket and without a way to call ashore for help.

A Southland coal mine could be extended into an area of commercial forestry by the end of next year.

A group protesting live animal exports thought their work would be done when the government announced the ban of the trade.

Leni Taufateau's skull was fractured in an unprovoked attack three months ago. He was one of nearly 2000 people seriously assaulted across NZ that month - a number that keeps rising.

Wellington bus drivers are back on the roads after a lockout was overturned, and will continue to work while mediation takes place between the union and their employer, NZ Bus.

“Some of them lived such short lives,” the 19-year-old history student said.

Walking through the HMNZS Aotearoa was enough to convince eight-year-old Liam Patrick he’d made the right future career choice.

Pedestrian understood to have been killed in a collision that left a main road in the city's west strewn with debris.