Critics have hammered the Climate Change Commission's agriculture goals, saying it has missed the mark on methane targets.

Actor Robyn Malcolm says she feels like she's in the team of five million's naughty corner after being bailed up by MIQ officials for lighting a candle and displaying one too many bottles of wine.

Senior Catholics from the Wellington region received their first dose of the vaccine today, with the government encouraging religious heads to play a role in spreading awareness.

The ageing vehicle fleet already in New Zealand needs to be addressed instead of focusing on imports, the head of MTA says, and a climate scientist says Kiwis are driving unnecessarily big vehicles.

About 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers took to the streets today in a nationwide eight hour strike to protest their pay and working conditions.

The foreign-owned Tasman Mill in the Eastern Bay of Plenty is set to close.

Northland woman Bridget Simmonds warned she may soon die before she went missing, her mother has told the High Court.

Police have confirmed a body found on Waiheke Island on Monday is that of a man who was reported missing late last month.

Law enforcement officials have announced they sprung an international trap three years in the making, catching major international crime figures using an encrypted app.

Leslie Gelberger was struck and killed while swimming between Narrow Neck Beach and North Head near Devonport on 20 April.

Armed police officers are investigating a fatal apparent hit and run in the Auckland suburb of Māngere, in which a firearm might have been involved.

Residents of a rural Mosgiel road are vowing to fight a more than 130-lot housing development they say will destroy their country lifestyles.

Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the trio breached lockdown rules in Melbourne, travelled to Sydney then onto Auckland last week.

The ranking pushes out Vienna, which crashed out of the Economist Intelligence Unit's top 10 list as New Zealand, Australia and Japan fared best.

Locals in the King Country town of Ōtorohanga are claiming victory after forcing district councillors to backtrack on their plan to relax a clampdown on pokie machines.

Counties Manukau DHB said they were transferred from the Jet Park quarantine hotel because they were suffering complications.

Environmental campaigners seeking an urgent halt to a Waiheke Island project say there is footage that shows threats to kororā nesting nearby, but the developer rejects that.

A man accused of historical sexual offending while working at Dilworth School has pleaded guilty to two charges.