Janene Gurnell went into cardiac arrest after an ankle injury caused deep vein thrombosis in her leg and clots in her heart and lungs.

Barney Gray opened her curtains on Wednesday morning to find she was “living in a houseboat”.

When Harley Ritchie went outside, he saw watermelon-sized boulders rolling down the road. "It happened so quickly, almost like a flash flood.”

In the High Court, Energy Minister Megan Woods is defending her decision to grant permits to look for new oil and gas.

The proposed levy might recognise the length of a person’s stay in New Zealand and the locations they stay in.

A Manawatū resident is 'fed up' with local councils who are refusing to take responsibility for an overflowing culvert constantly putting her property underwater.

Chris Sinclair, 63, was looking forward to slowing down. Instead he's working seven days a week and on antidepressants due to stress.

Dunedin councillors got into a spat when a woman argued transgender people should be excluded from public facilities.

Green Party MP Teanau Tuiono has suggested he may challenge Climate Change Minister James Shaw for the party's co-leadership.

The trio disappeared on Tuesday but were found safe and well on Wednesday.

Police were notified of the assault just after 5pm on Wednesday.

Kevin Richard Nelson sexually abused the girl multiple times over the course of two years and threatened to kill her and her family if she told anyone.

Paul Yurisich has stepped down after an investigation into the company conducted by an employment lawyer.

On Tuesday night Pip Abernathy was criticising her district council for removing fluoride. A day later that same council was one of 14 ordered to fluoridate.

Sentencing changes would not have altered the outcome for three teen killers facing open-ended prison terms, or those like them, the Crown says.

After 307 Covid stand-ups, arguably NZ's best-known public official is gone. Here are a few highlights from the director-general of health's tenure.

Greenpeace is urging the International Seabed Authority to halt plans that would allow destructive deep-sea mining to begin – starting in the Pacific.

New Zealand’s economy is suffering from a 90s flashback – and not in a good way.

A double whammy of flooding and a sinkhole left Christchurch Girls' High School with no other choice but to move lessons online.

Ruby Edwards' dad says the almost 2-year-old became suddenly unwell, eventually testing positive for Covid-19.