Mere Taufa's house in Tonga started shaking. Moments later, a tsunami swept through their home. She says people were 'screaming for safety'.

Those in New Zealand have described the fear and difficulty contacting family in Tonga after a volcanic eruption, tsunami warning, as knock-on effects reach New Zealand.

Local describes the moment tsunami waves began to hit the country, prompting "screams everywhere".

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How would your life change if you suddenly became a millionaire? One lucky Wellingtonian is about to find out.

Out-of-contention Otago slump with the bat, then Auckland go even worse but fight back for amazing victory at Eden Park Outer Oval.

No injuries reported after firefighters contain a small but well-involved fire on a welding unit on the convention centre's fifth floor.

The high-class mare broke through for a deserved Group One victory with a heart-stopping finish, in a stunning time of 1:06.18 for 1200m.

Several locations in Mount Maunganui and Queenstown, including Queenstown's airport, have been visited by Covid cases.

A person was flown to hospital in critical condition after an incident in the water at Lake Te Anau.

A camera zooming around the boundary in Hobart drew the ire of Stuart Broad in the final test of the Ashes series.

No one was injured after a hedge fire spread to a shed at a Manawatū paintball facility.

New Zealand's oldest sporting trophy has been successfully defended for the first time ever.

Joyce Terrill never forgets a loved one’s birthday and always sends a card – even at the age of 100.

As all 20 DHBs close in on fully vaccinating 90 per cent of their eligible populations, a separate group, 'overseas/unknown', sit at 16 per cent. Who are they?

The boys want to become the first people to traverse NZ in a perfectly straight line from one coast to the other.

Police have named Barbara Campbell, also known as Rose, as the woman who was allegedly murdered in Christchurch.

Epidemiologist says it's likely the worker was infected in MIQ given the large number of border cases, versus those in the community.

Emergency services rushed to the aid of three divers who got into difficulty at Goat Island off the coast of Leigh in north Auckland.