Get ready for some stormy weather - there are rain, snow, gales and big waves forecast.

Waiting three hours with a deteriorating child will stay with the mother forever, she has said. The DHB has been told to apologise and audit its wait times.

Two photographs show the 27-year-old's car in different areas of the Tolaga Bay wharf car park when she disappeared two years ago.

A passer-by spotted the body, with a surfboard attached, on the beach on Monday evening.

A 127-page report has found multiple failings after paedophile Aaron Laurence was released to a Wellington home surrounded by children.

The retrieval and oil spill clean-up costs after a locomotive plunged into Picton harbour are expected to be steep.

The 85-year-old lay undiscovered in a scrubby area close to a busy Christchurch road and a popular walking track for nearly two months. Could she have been found sooner?

The attacker was hostile and abusive towards staff and non-compliant with sentencing conditions, but the Department of Corrections says he could not be charged.

29 Middlemore staff have been stood down after being in close contact with a Covid patient.

Street racing fans have been dealt a double blow as the popular event is canned due to Covid uncertainty and its founding father dies after a short illness.

Just outside Gisborne is an extraordinary slice of Aotearoa that would serve as a glimmer of hope in a nuclear holocaust.

Big venues say there will be no profit under tougher Covid-19 rules.

Police were called to the Christchurch takeaway restaurant on Tuesday afternoon after reports of disorder.

Two independent reviews have been critical of Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt, but it will be the public in 13 months time who will get to decide if he is up to the job.

ANALYSIS: There are more vaccines on the way – but we don't yet know how many, when, or where they are coming from.

Cantabrians will see better public transport and safer roads in the next three years, but major transport projects have been prioritised elsewhere.

The 42-year-old was arrested after man police and Armed Offenders Squad members were seen at the property on Tuesday morning.

Some bars and eateries fear they will struggle to make the rules work for them.

Though the number of unlinked cases in the Delta outbreak is falling, this group is key to Auckland's alert level settings.

Some are planning to stop paying GST to send a message to the Government.