An Auckland businesswoman applied for a gun licence a year before she was killed because she feared for her life, a court has heard.

Recent borrowers are most exposed to rising interest rates and declining house prices, Reserve Bank says.

The $86.5 million Government programme was designed to support more equal work opportunities for people facing social and financial barrriers to driving legally.

Covid lockdowns took their toll in 2021, but "hard work by students and outstanding support from schools" paid off, officials say.

Another 50-point rate hike by the Reserve Bank is likely this month to nip a wage-price spiral in the bud, says ANZ.

Former camera operator who went missing near Bristol added "so much beauty" to our television screens, say the people who worked with him.

NZ Post said its investigation to date suggests the issue may have impacted about 30 customers.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has won its appeal for a dismissal of charges in relation to the December 2019 eruption

Richard Le Mare worked in the UK during the pandemic, but now he only wears PPE to feed the alpacas.

One of New Zealand's most isolated rural communities might be in for a tourist boom - and residents are hoping they don't all come at once.

Plans to get hospitals operating as normal by September have been slammed by some health care leaders, who say it's no more than a band-aid for a system already in crisis before the pandemic.

The secret is to have multiple families living together and contributing to the mortgage, developer says.

Described as a passionate activist and determined scholar, Apsara Wimalasiri's life was commemorated at the university on Wednesday night.

Wellington-based family of Malachi Subecz say they raised the alarm with Oranga Tamariki, and shared photographs of bruises.

A convicted methamphetamine dealer has a few more nights of freedom ahead after his jail sentence was delayed to allow him to finish his rehabilitation programme.

A Taranaki art auction fundraising for Ukraine raised over $10,000, and there is artwork still available.

Labour’s new MP, Lemauga Lydia Sosene delivered her maiden speech Wednesday night, in which she gave her priorities as an MP as climate change, child poverty and health.

Firefighters cut two people out of a car after it crashed in Bromley on Wednesday evening.

Two men have told how they tried to save the life of a driver after her car crashed into the Waitara River on Wednesday morning.

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