The former owners of an award-winning house say signs erected outside the home by its new owner are untrue.

They're helping Putin to tell "lies" to justify invading Ukraine, Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta says.

A father killed in a possible hit-and-run was walking home from a duck shooting gathering to set up his wife's birthday party.

Did you heron the one about the rare but very friendly kōtuku visiting the top of the south?

The family celebrated with a bottle of champagne and fish ’n’ chips for dinner.

William Burr's lawyer said he was being persecuted for taking the softer option - beating the teenager and cutting off his finger.

Police have "some understanding about what was happening in Tāngarākau over that 24-hour period", and continue to keep private the identity of the man found dead.

New Zealand getting "thrashed" by Australia in the "trans-Tasman battle for ideas, talent and capital", David Seymour says in a grilling of the PM during question time.

The Māori Development Minister has labelled ACT's leader the “worst advocate for Māori” over his call to close “demographic ministries”.

For years, neighbours of the empty building had complained about vagrants – then it went up in flames, twice.

The private jet boaters set off an emergency beacon to call for help shortly before midday.

A Christchurch man got a big surprise when he was warned for using a bus lane in Mt Maunganui, despite being in Christchurch at the time.

Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri Waititi says funding for police firearms training will lead to more shootings.

Findings of a Ministry of Health survey are out, and the results are "reassuring".

A decision to send Kyung Yup Kim to China to stand trial for "intentional homicide" would be a dramatic step, beyond Kim's own case.

The discovery of another dead Hector’s dolphin at Te Waewae Bay in Southland at the weekend is “a wake-up call that action is overdue," an advocate says.

Tees, fairways and greens at a Banks Peninsula course could be irrigated from a new source if a council proposal is approved.

It's been 134 years since Dunedin's mayor declared a ban on new Chinese immigrants, reflecting a sentiment which led to many Chinese families hiding their heritage. Six generations later, the Alloo family are reclaiming theirs.

“My mum and I would love for our land to be protected as bush in perpetuity. But don’t annihilate the value of my mother’s principal financial asset to do so.”

Nelson Cleaver was sitting in his ute in West Auckland when a stranger began punching him in the face after demanding the car keys.