Women stepped in to shield the victim of an unprovoked assault that left him with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.

About 100 protesters wearing costume masks and carrying signs with freedom, anti-vax and Three Waters messages force a last-minute change on the PM in Whanganui.

The procession began in Cannons Creek and travelled through Porirua before heading north on State Highway 1. Police monitored the event.

GRAPHIC CONTENT: A girl was sent to live with her grandparents after her mother died so they could offer a 'nurturing environment'. Instead, her grandfather abused her.

Andrew Laurie Drew was sentenced for holding a woman at gunpoint in 1977, but had 21 cases of historical sexual offending against him dropped.

Lenix - recently voted New Zealand’s top trainee police dog - should be back on the beat next week. His alleged attacker is in hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack.

Abandoned by his parents, naive and vulnerable, Hanz Freller suffered years of abuse at the hands of a man he was supposed to trust.

Two people were fined for their "selfish" shellfish hauls after being caught with more than three times the daily limit.

100 new cases of Covid-19 have been detected across Auckland and Waikato, as restrictions have tightened in the Far North and loosened in Waikato.

Hundreds of midwives have signed a petition backing the Covid-19 vaccine mandate after a minority were caught peddling myths "to scare people".

A short stretch of road on the existing SH1 at Linden is set to be sealed over the next two weekends, marking the end of the surfacing work for the project.

A Timaru man has been fined $100 for illegally selling 38 motor vehicles over a three-year period.

The mystery object that crashed through a van may have been identified.

Official unemployment in the three months to the end of September has dropped dramatically, Stats NZ has reported.

Campbell McKay, who had already sexually offended, forced himself on a woman who was asleep and unable to give consent.

Park on the footpath and get a ticket, or block the road – the conundrum facing car owners on one of Wellington's narrowest streets.

Two options that aim to make Wellington's controversial Island Bay cycleway safer could remove dozens of car parks along The Parade.

The person had been isolating at a house in Manukau and was found by a family member.

The Ministry of Health is no longer highlighting seven suburbs in Auckland which had high rates of people testing positive for Covid-19.

Councillors argued over whether to continue the scheme, aimed at boosting central Christchurch's population after the earthquakes.