Over nine months, Mitchell Kerr sent multiple invoices to the horse's "owner" for training fees, incidentals and insurance, totalling $26,000.

Police were called about 12.45pm to a person who had fallen down a bank on the Taylors Mistake Walkway and injured themselves, a police spokesperson said.

The person returned home drunk after being out at a nightclub, the lodge's owner said.

Steven Walton was reported missing from his New Plymouth home on April 13. His body was found last Monday in Midhirst and his death has been referred to the Coroner.

The prominent old pub on the side of the main road through Ngāruawāhia overnight was all but destroyed and is being looked at by fire investigators.

ECan says the Christchurch City Council-owned plant is too stinky and is likely breaking the law. The city council employed an odour expert who disagrees.

Events were held in more than 40 countries around the world, including in Wellington, where 60 people gathered for a vigil.

Nerves are fraying and residents living in fear, never sure when the next bang could be gunshots in their street.

Fourteen weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian New Zealanders are still fighting to bring their loved ones to safety.

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A council might be able to save a set of heritage buildings from the wrecking ball, but it can’t stop their owners from demolishing them by neglect.

A scene guard is in place near Canterbury’s Waimakariri River after a member of the public found a dead body.

A 65-year-old woman was found in her home by a member of her extended family shortly after 10am on Sunday.

Three men linked to the Tribesmen gang have been arrested and charged with firearms offences.

An unknown brown powder being sold as MDMA is believed to be lined to three serious harm events within 12 hours.

The community heard another “hard closure” will be needed at some point – in a remote area where businesses are “bleeding”.

After writing dozens of plays for her students, retired drama teacher Elayne Buckler found great freedom in writing her first piece of professional theatre.

The search for a fisherman missing off the South Taranaki coast will be reassessed on Monday, with the police dive squad expected to arrive.

It broke all the records and in an earthquake damaged city, its coldest day bought misery as frozen snow made cars an ice skate.

Alongside the best bark-up, several ute awards and the best mullet award, a new category of best dog mullet was introduced this year at the Hokonui Ute Muster, much to spectators' delight.