A lewd email sent by TV presenter Kamahl Santamaria during his 16 years at the broadcaster was revealed by Stuff.

Police aiming to have women make up 40% of its constabulary in ten years.

National, Te Pāti Māori, ACT and Greens join calls to help teachers recognise early signs of abuse.

"It felt like a pole smacking my face": An attempt to sell a PS5 ended with a young couple traumatised and the woman blind in one eye.

There are reports of at least three roofs damaged and buildings blown over in two separate tornadoes on the Kāpiti Coast.

People asked what was up with their income tax assessments for the last financial year but Inland Revenue says there are no delays.

What is the secret to longevity? A Waimate woman shares her tips ahead of her 100th birthday.

A woman with four drink-driving convictions got her daughter to blow into an alcohol interlock device, so she could drive to the supermarket after drinking.

A remark about Garath Collings’ children was the trigger for him to turn a car on Robin Friend and fatally run him down. On Wednesday he was sentenced to life in prison.

Cash, a $7000 one-year-old Japanese akita, died after becoming sick at a Havelock North kennel.

Steven Wallace's mother Raewyn has been to court again listening to a detailed critique of 22 years worth of legal challenges.

Senior mental health doctor apologises to family for comment about man who later died in a mental health ward.

Will tenants be screened for gang affiliations and criminal convictions? Did you consider you were devaluing our homes? Why weren’t we consulted? New Plymouth neighbours ask.

Dilworth School could have ended Leonard Cave’s teaching career after complaints he sexually abused boys. Instead, he was allowed to resign and his abuse continued.

Fewer cases of syphilis, gonorrhoea and chlamydia were detected last year but rates are likely seeing a Covid-19 response hangover.

One school asked parents to help out as stocks dwindle because of supply and shipping delays.

OPINION: Our international colleagues cannot understand why we invest so little in early treatment and cure, only to wear greater expense downstream.

An incursion of rats on Ulva Island has put the islands predator-free status in jeopardy and could come at the cost of some of its most vulnerable species.

The body of Emma Field was found on Friday night at an address on Devon St West.

It's not just the hospital struggling - GPs have been swamped with “very large respiratory presentations” as the flu and Covid-19 circulate widely in the community.