ACT has defended its Tauranga by-election candidate after he likened commission chair Anne Tolley to Marie Antoinette and called for her to meet the same fate as the former Queen of France and lose her head.

Haami Hanara was 14 when he was found guilty of killing a man, even though he had mulitple serious difficulties.

A person is in hospital with critical injuries after an acetone explosion at a workplace in Yaldhurst.

The New Conservative Party co-leader wants to transform the Harbour Bridge, get tough on crime and shake up the council.

The number of birds on Bromley’s oxidation ponds is now “very low” because the quality of the wastewater has worsened.

Two men fled police and once caught, attempted to hide the pāua in bushes. Now, they have been banned from fishing and will serve home detention sentences.

Wellington ratepayers, who funded the $10,000 legal advice, can now see what it is.

Napier has the country's biggest housing waitlist, per capita, in the country. The housing agency wants to deliver not just houses but homes,

An automatic $350 payment for nearly half the country, and extened fuel tax cuts and public transport subsidies headline a Government bid to ease fears about rising costs.

Pharmac has had its biggest ever funding boost, but some New Zealanders fear it still won’t be enough to keep them alive.

The Budget provides for a technical study of the Manukau Harbour as a future port.

When Aucklander Tim Groenendaal saw pictures of people fleeing the war-torn country with their dogs, he knew he had to do something to help. Now he's on the ground - and on a mission to raise nearly $40k.

Bruce Smith was airlifted to hospital at the weekend after his health worsened. But, like Keith Richards, he is defying the odds, his son says.

OPINION: It's a Budget mostly devoted to salving middle-class pain, when it could have helped those at the bottom.

The country’s arts sector is “under-represented ... yet again” in the Budget, one advocate says, with another sounding a warning about performance measures the Government has set against cultural authorities’ funding.

An overhaul of the decile system and early childhood pay parity boost are welcome moves, sector leaders say, but persistent gaps remain in skills and pay.

This year's Budget has failed to do anything about the "widening gap between the haves and the have-nots", disappointed social agencies say.

In a world of multiple crises (Covid, climate and cost of living) Covid crisis, it was never going to be a steady-as-she-goes Budget Day.

Across New Zealand, cases in all schools, kura, and early childhood education (ECE) centres have risen by over 20% in a week.

Hari Rapata feels his te reo journey has only just begun, but it has already changed his life in the best of ways.