Apsara Wimalasiri – a PhD student living in Wellington – died two days after arriving for a short holiday to visit family and take part in protests.

“We agree with the Crown that, on its face, this was a cynical attempt by Mr DeMarco to manipulate the system,” the Court of Appeal said in its unanimous judgment.

A community action group has expressed strong concern over an escalation from business owners in the defence of their stores from offenders.

A national review of port operations after two worker deaths in six days has begun - four days after a man in his 70s was crushed by coal.

Tāmati Coffey says progress on the Rotorua council representation bill will be halted, following the attorney-general's critical report.

James was last seen about 7.40pm on Wednesday in the Christchurch suburb of Hillmorton and could now be anywhere in Canterbury or heading to the West Coast.

Police have been hunting for the arsonist for months. On Wednesday they caught a man walking away from another fire.

A chief executive who repeatedly raped a young girl and filmed himself abusing her is appealing his sentence.

Police are shocked after four children, one just seven years old, were caught attempting to steal from a Hamilton shopping centre about 1am.

A main pipe on Mersey St burst this afternoon, sending torrents of water down the street and causing a water outage for many streets in the Wellington suburb of Island Bay.

A motorcycle and an SUV collide at a T-junction on Auckland's North Shore at dusk, leaving one person in hospital.

Sharolyn Croton's overseas adventures in Australia and tropical islands inspired her to bring the tropics to Taranaki for everyone to enjoy.

The implications of continuing to allow poorly-mitigated transmission of Covid are “too great to ignore”, the new open letter to Govt warns.

Joanna Ji has been missing in Amsterdam without her bag, phone passport or wallet for more than a week, her family say.

Analysis of funded cancer drugs shows our Aussie counterparts can access 18 medicines Kiwis cannot, including three types that cure cancer.

Two Christchurch brothers have come up with possibly the weirdest way to do good – offering to send a sausage anonymously to feed a person in need.

A 12-year-old female was in the driver's seat of the getaway vehicle after a theft at a dairy in central Auckland's Grey Lynn.

Contractors will work through the night to fix a burst water main that has a closed a Christchurch street and caused flooding.

Residents say the stench is making them miserable, but council staff maintain they are doing all they can.

For nearly two years, Jet Park Hamilton has been supporting people through isolation, but that's about to change.