A 100 litre chilly bin believed to belong to fisherman Jason Kauta has washed up on Moutohorā Island.

Flights are resuming from NZ to several US destinations - here's what you need to know before you go.

Liz Sinclair bought Pihama Lavender in 2014 and has been growing the business ever since.

The hospital's CEO wouldn't say if it would repay the money, but said it "met every Ministry of Social Development requirement" and was "fully entitled to receive it".

ANALYSIS: The fight is on for who is responsible for cost-of-living increases reaching a 30-year high.

A Whangārei woman shouted at crying children, left them in dirty nappies, dragged them by the hand and wrapped them in a sheet to restrain them.

Trentham Racecourse’s operators have harnessed their hopes on a project that will integrate the venue with housing for 1800 people and a shopping centre.

Eighteen truckloads of paper, plastic, cans and bottles picked up from the kerb were dumped while services were impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak.

OPINION: If you snub every country that doesn’t have a squeaky clean record, well you’re going to have a fairly short list of places to visit.

Prayer in congregation and communal meals to break the daily fast during Ramadan have returned to New Zealand after being widely suspended for the past two years due to Covid-19 restrictions.

They have been flown to Wellington Regional Hospital in a critical condition after a serious crash on State Highway 1 in Levin.

A second direction of notice to leave was issued to those remaining at the campsite, after they claimed they hadn’t seen the first notice.

New cases continue to emerge in MidCentral, but the number in hospital drops to eight.

The exhibition includes paintings of soldiers, spitfire planes, and a boy fleeing the ongoing war in Ukraine.

ECan is “not strictly monitoring” the stink coming from a fire-damaged wastewater plant, despite air quality being its core function, a city councillor says.

The man is accused of using an air rifle to rob a Coopers Beach store on Easter Saturday.

'I really don’t think they wanted us to be New Zealanders' says Julien Debord of Immigration New Zealand.

Police have revealed more details of the death of Kaoss Price at the weekend.

Defence Force stands firm on vaccine requirement for staff, while some businesses that broke Covid rules are yet to pay their fines.

The building, on the north-west corner of Cashel and Manchester streets, would be the tallest built in the central city since the earthquakes.