Locals in Bluff are rallying round the families who lost their teenagers in a fatal collision between a ute and concrete truck on Friday.

A driver has died after a crash at the speedway in Palmerston North.

The story of New Zealand troops scaling a fortress to liberate a town from German forces in 1918 is still celebrated in Le Quesnoy, and now Weta are building a memorial.

Police want the public's help to identify a pitbull terrier dog that attacked and killed another dog in Tairāwhiti this morning.

"We've missed out the messy bits." As a new history curriculum for Aotearoa is introduced to schools, a group looks at why talking about past conflicts, issues and violence can be difficult.

Police have released the name of the victim of a fatal stabbing in Invercargill yesterday.

Ten people have now died on New Zealand's roads this Anzac weekend, with a motorcyclist dying after a crash on State Highway 4 near Raetihi.

A car allegedly involved in a hit and run crash in Taupō last night had an unsecured 4-year-old child in the back seat.

There have been 5562 new community cases of Covid-19 reported in New Zealand today, the lowest in two months, with nine further deaths.

More than two weeks after elected officials ordered the immediate removal of unpopular brightly coloured planter boxes that line a main highway into Palmerston North, the offending objects remain.

A Southland softball team - which one of the four teenagers killed in a crash on Friday belonged to - say they are devastated by his death.

A man whose godson is fighting in Mariupol says it will be difficult commemorating fallen Anzac heroes when there are living heroes still fighting in Ukraine.

Police say the firearms incidents in central Wellington and Tawa yesterday are believed to be gang-related.

The Returned and Services Association says most preparations for Anzac Day commemorations across the country are now complete.

An investigation has found that the monitoring of two vessels that crashed into each other in Tauranga last year fell well short of good practice.

An epidemiologist says it is still unclear whether the new Covid-19 variant is more transmissible than Omicron.

'Rest in love boys,' say messages as community mourns four teenagers, three 16 and one 17, killed in yesterday's crash in Invercargill.

A motorcyclist has died after crashing in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty.