OPINION: Anyone who’s tried to launch a new website, or app, anything tech-related, will know how long even the simplest of jobs can take.

22,000 driving tests have been delayed due to Covid-19 restrictions. Unable to practise, this has taken migrants and refugees "back to zero".

New AUT vice-chancellor talks about his dad, and growing up as one of the first brown families in his Glen Innes neighbourhood.

Rabbits are destroying vineyards and running rife through Central Otago. Landowners are so frustrated they are taking up arms - literally.

Charlie Philips is owning their role as a trailblazer, but says their school is much more progressive than it gets credit for.

A massive backlog of trials throughout the country is creating a “huge amount of pressure and burden” on the justice system.

"The type of role being performed by soldiers is not why a lot of them joined," says Chief of the Army, Major General John Boswell.

Athlete Allison Roe is among board members who are either unvaccinated or have not disclosed their status, Stuff understands.

Mason Gundry is intellectual, smart and determined, "just a normal little boy missing a few things", says his mum.

To celebrate The Timaru Herald chief photographer John Bisset’s 35th anniversary with the paper, we asked him for a selection of his favourite images.

National's four years in opposition will be seen as its "years of shame", says one party stalwart.

The Omicron variant was first detected in South Africa, and is a “highly transmissible virus of concern”.

Two lucky Lotto players will be celebrating after each willing half-a-million dollars in Saturday night's draw.

Motorists urged to postpone West Coast travel as many residents left without phone, internet thanks to lines outage

The search is on for a 63-year-old Wellington father who left work on Friday and wrote on a whiteboard that he'd return two hours later, but didn’t.

A pop-up testing centre is being set up in the Bay of Plenty town after a Delta case was confirmed there on Saturday.

Police swooped into a small Mackenzie town to arrest a man in connection to a near-deadly shooting in Palmerston North.

Former PM John Key has clarified that he was not making calls to National MPs pushing them to vote for Chris Luxon for party leader, as earlier reported.

In a field of contestants split between two cities, Max Carter, 14, has emerged as the national spelling bee champion after 18 gruelling rounds of competition.

A person has died of Covid-19, while 77 people are in hospital, with eight in ICU. There are 145 new cases today.