The letter said "I can no longer afford to keep you as an employee" and gave three weeks redundancy notice.

Dashcam footage could help provide clues following the death of an Australian man on a Waikato rural road.

The code red meant there was too much demand at maternity ward and too few staff.

When Graham Kerrigan woke up from a cardiac arrest he thought he had just fainted for 20 seconds. It had been seven minutes.

Performer Andrew Papas says the role of Alex the Lion in the musical Madagascar is the most physically gruelling thing he has ever done.

After Jamie O'Reilly didn't make it home one night his brother set about creating a digital memory of him - an act of remembrance that has blossomed into a business.

Hamilton City Council was unaware a Hamilton Gardens meeting room was booked for controversial speaker Billy Te Kahika.

Police and fire investigators are still investigating the cause of a house fire in central Auckland.

In 1977 guards at the Wellington prison were oblivious as Taylor secreted a stash of tools to try and his dig way out of his cell. Taylor recounts the operation in his new memoir, Prison Break.

While City Rail Link was killing an Auckland barber's shop, he was unwillingly paying its hot water bill.

Five people spent about 40 minutes awaiting rescue in the water off the Taranaki coast after the vessel they were in capsized.

A worker in Defence Force operations in Afghanistan has left his family behind, fleeing to Kabul in the hope the New Zealand Government will save him from the Taliban.

REVIEW: Director Miki Magasiva does a terrific job of creating a sense of space and place, effectively transporting the viewer back to the mid-1970s.

REVIEW: While the gorgeous, rugged landscape is very much integral to proceedings, it’s the performances that sell the sometimes confounding premise.

About 150 children from 16 different nationalities came together in Christchurch this weekend, all in the name of football and making friends.

A Christchurch principal says support will be offered to students who knew a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed to death when a party spiralled out of control.

Is the prime piece of real estate "worth too much to keep pensioners on"? That's what some tenants are starting to think.

Tysons East attacker Amber Ormond said Saturday’s Bayleys premier one netball final was the hardest she has played in.

Here's hoping you got your laundry dry on Sunday, as much of the country is set to be sodden for the next few days.

The impressive $1.5m rebuild of the famous old bandstand in central Christchurch is finally complete and attracting a lot of admirers.