Diners are asked to be patient, as "the people serving you are doing their best in difficult times".

Two years was just not enough, says long-time UK resident - as youth mobility scheme is extended to three years, and people aged under 35.

Saturday Night Fever for four lucky lotto players who scoop quarter-of-a-million each.

The principal of a Rotorua school has written a lengthy tribute to the popular teen.

After living abroad, Joe Spooner and his wife Melanie returned to New Zealand and overhauled the family bungalow.

The mood is already celebratory at Auckland's Irish Club ahead of Ireland's game against the All Blacks - their first in NZ since 2011.

Amid so much new development, inner-city Invercargill is seeing a classic comeback.

Our About the South columnist on perished pachyderms, an Australian take on Stewart Island, and Fred Miller's account of frustrated goldpanning.

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A viewer said the dish was "literally turning our precious taonga into s...". The restaurant agreed it had been naive.

The All Blacks will have their head coach and forwards coach back on deck for stern Irish test.

Controversial former Wallabies star endures sorry international comeback, forced off early in Tonga's Pacific Nations Cup defeat to Fiji.

One westbound lane remains blocked following the fire, however Waka Kotahi advises that traffic has returned to normal levels.

Te Arawa Lakes biosecurity boss William Anaru blown away by next generation of environmental guardians on show at inaugural Te Arawa science and design fair.

Fire and Emergency denied staffing levels were delaying its response times, after a house was destroyed by a blaze on Friday.

When Crosby Grieve rescued a kauri sapling from certain destruction at the Gore landfill, he had no idea that he was creating a 47-year legacy.

New Zealand’s biggest poultry supplier said it would increase its prices this month.

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