​Dylan Bruce Taylor-McCutchan, 18, was killed after the car he was in went down a bank near Rāpaki Bay, Canterbury, in July.

Some Kiwi troops will be home - and out of MIQ - in time for Christmas after a whirlwind deployment in the Pacific.

Auckland Council is considering a proposal to establish three Māori seats in time for the 2025 local body elections.

Two siblings want to stop their family home being sold to a developer for $1.1m but the court must decide if they can afford the legal challenge.

One NZer's visa is expiring, while another is trying to get home to see his dying grandmother. Now a date that was "locked in" looks uncertain.

There are 74 new cases of Covid-19 and 61 people in hospital, while a further death has been recorded - a person in Tauranga Hospital.

After more than a decade of calls for change, a new law aims to do away with the traumatising and unfair court process endured by sexual violence survivors.

The court ruled a mum was being psychologically abused by her ex-husband. But they wouldn't give her a protection order.

The region is facing its first cluster and the largest number of active cases in the community since the pandemic began in March 2020.

Rangiwhero Toia Ngaronoa died after being dropped off at an Auckland medical centre with critical injuries.

Residents are preparing to evacuate as heavy rain bettered the Manawatū-Whanganui region and flooding strikes the town of Feilding for the second time this week.

Residents in Le Bons Bay on Banks Peninsula have been evacuated after a creek burst its bank and a torrent of water washed rocks and debris down the road, threatening properties.

Having a single councillor representing eight iwi and 62 hapū in Taranaki was too much for one person, two local government commissioners have been told.

Officials confirm person who died on Friday was in their late 30s but won't provide details, such as their vaccination status, "out of respect".

The mother of two victims of child sex abuse has called the man responsible a “master of manipulation, lies and deceit”.

Professor Jennifer Windsor will become the acting vice-chancellor when the incumbent, Professor Grant Guilford, retires in March. She will hold the role until the university council decides on a permanent appointment.

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Invercargill Prison could become remand only as Corrections works with unions ahead of a final decision early next year.

Central Auckland business owners are fuming after a 16-hour power outage caused by a storm and lack of access to a transformer.

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