OPINION: It tastes like an easter egg from The Warehouse.

Investor attention is now turning to the release of new inflation data.

Olympic Games bronze medallist Dylan Schmidt will be competing in nationals for the first time since 2016 in Invercargill this week.

One witness said she was with her daughter at Meadowbank Shopping Centre when she saw the woman in her seventies jump into action.

Rusiate Vakalakovi, 44, has five mouths to feed, but made just $2 for a day's work. The Pacific Islands Forum, held a few minutes down the road, doesn't factor as he struggles to make ends meet.

The only guaranteed new faces on the council will come from the new Māori ward and from the South Taranaki ward, which has two of three currently elected members finishing up.

A vehicle was recovered with some of the stolen goods still inside.

The nominations for the docuseries are testament to "the exceptional film-making talent we have here in Wellington,” one of the nominees says.

Jake William Macdonald's actions were not only disgusting, but posed a health danger too, Judge Phillip Cooper said.

Emergency services were called about 6pm; the car was burnt out.

He said he cleaned $54,000 of a meth dealer's proceeds through his construction company. He now says the cash was clean all along.

The private health sector always does better when the public sector is unable to deliver, which is "deeply inequitable", says Otago University Professor Robin Gauld.

The new three-storey building, which is expected to cost about $42m, will include an early childhood centre, a flexible youth space, a gym and a black-box theatre.

An Air New Zealand crew member saved a passenger’s life on Saturday, on a domestic flight from Wellington to Auckland.

Expect to pay more for bread because of heavy rain in Canterbury, flooding in Australia, and a knock on effect from the war in Ukraine, says a grain expert.

Cole Hampton, the brains behind the Aunty from Bulls, Pamela Hancock, died last week at age 24.

The Marists hailed them as visionaries, inspiring, great totara trees: but they were known, cruel child sexual abusers. Can they really claim to have changed if they still celebrate their criminals?

Its owner says it comes down to a combination of rising food prices, impending earthquake strengthening and a lack of staff.

Adam Sandler brings ice hockey skills to the course and Bill Murray battles a gopher, in cinematic tales that are well above-par (and that's good).

It's not every day you see prison bars nestled between the kitchen and lounge of a four-bedroom home.