The Auckland tenants had to put up with sewage leaking from their rental property for more than four months.

A central Auckland motorway was closed after an incident involving a person on a bridge, police said.

Video taken by a North Shore resident shows the moment a Michael Hill store was broken into and raided in broad daylight.

Artist Bailey Magill had been living in her van before her body was found in the water in May.

Police have confirmed a person died following a house fire. It is the second death this week, and will rock the small community.

While services will still need to move out of the quake-prone Heretaunga building, timeframes may be longer DHB says, prompting calls for clarity.

Police have entered the house after a woman suffered significant facial injuries, but the man they are looking for has not been found.

Joanne, one of the infamous Ingham twins who made headlines for jumping overboard after stowing away on a container ship, died in a Wellington motel last week.

The Disputes Tribunal referee gave short shrift to the man's claim the box was stolen from his car just minutes after he was given it.

When police visited the young offender involved in a series of ramraids and dairy burglaries, they found 17 stolen car ignitions hidden in a bedroom drawer.

Support is pouring in for Tauranga’s queer community after a fire destroyed the city’s Rainbow Youth building in what some are calling an "act of terror".

Southern Medicinal says low overheads means it can grow medicinal cannabis for one tenth of the price of its competitors.

The crash just north of Temuka, involved two vehicles, and blocked part of State Highway 1 for more than an hour.

The endangered parrots are a popular sight around Arthur's Pass village, but young kea Chickpea and Kuschla have been found dead on the road just over a week apart.

We're here, we’re queer, and get used to it - that’s the message as Pride Week kicks off in Christchurch.

The acclaimed playwright's new show, Ngā Rorirori, blends a fun, dizzying mix of indigenous theatre, dance and farce.

“Between him pulling and her pulling, either time one of them pulled, it got tighter, and tighter, and tighter” until the collar suffocated the beloved family dog.

The Ōhaupō-based winery was celebrating 100 years and the winemaker thought, why not enter?

Southland man Dale Watene likely died immediately after being shot and was buried in the Longwood Forest soon after, a High Court jury heard.

The Labour Party president was brought in after the previous president resigned, during a time of conflict for the party.