After multiple delays, a diversion and sleeping on airport floors, passengers were at the end of their tether after a trans-Tasman flight.

Local MP Chloë Swarbrick said the iconic food truck's licensing troubles show "something deeply and profoundly wrong" with the council's system.

Smokefree 2025 aims to greatly reduce the number of outlets selling tobacco, but many corner shops say they would struggle to stay open.

After 56 years on our television screens, Country Calendar finally went rogue.

Meat processing giant Anzco has been fined $340,000 and ordered to pay the family of a contracted cleaner close to $100,000 after he was crushed at its Riverlands Plant in Taranaki.

When police arrested her, Chanelle Graham-Ashby laughed and told the officer she had Covid-19. The officer later tested positive.

About nine vehicles and campervans are parked in Wellington's Shelly Bay. Police and Wellington City Council are monitoring the situation.

Scheme involved encrypted phones, a secret meeting in a Phuket restaurant, and a yacht lost at sea with $4 million worth of cocaine on board.

14-year-old Zane Turua wants to go to high school, but has been waiting for months for the support to do that.

Last month, a patient left ED due to long wait times and died the next day. Now the former DHB chair says Health NZ is responsible for investigating.

The crown prosecutor in a murder trial at Invercargill says the evidence is clear - there was no struggle going on for a rifle when Otautau man Dale Watene was shot in the head and killed.

Peter Lui had a literal target on his back as two Mongrel Mob members planned to rob him of his Outlaws patch in an attack where he was stabbed 13 times and later died, the Crown tells the court.

After conflicting advice and prescription charge confusion, users of the carcinogen-tainted blood pressure pills say Pharmac has "created more issues".

The unit was meant to be operational in Q1 of this year, but started work seven weeks late, citing recruitment problems.

Digital signs advertising Paul Eagle's mayoral bid are still up, eight weeks before council policy supposedly allows, and his lawyers have hit back at council's request to remove them.

A crash left a lane of the Northern Motorway on the Waimakariri Bridge partially blocked through Monday's evening rush hour.

Skifields are being hit with a "double whammy", as staff hit by Covid-19 force their fellow worker housemates into isolation - just as tourists start to arrive again.

Ram Karki frantically knocked on his neighbour's door when he saw flames in the driveway. He managed to rouse a young man but the blaze had already claimed a life.

Malachi Subecz and Ferro-James Sio were both abused and killed by their carers, but professionals who knew of their injuries did not tell authorities.

He led the Southern District Health Board through some of its most tumultuous periods, but Chris Fleming says there will always be unmet health needs in New Zealand.