Twenty-five neo mastiff crosses and bulldog crosses have been rounded up at the Northland property where a man was killed in a suspected mauling yesterday afternoon.

A rescue pilot says a plane crash which happened in the Southern Alps yesterday is an "unsustainable crash to live from".

Police say the 23-year-old man who was killed in New Plymouth this week was a young father.

Police have confirmed they attended another incident this week on the same Levin street that is currently cordoned off, as they try to resolve the stand-off. Watch the latest media conference here.

High winds have blown over a campervan on a Southland road this afternoon, after fog caused flight and ferry disruptions in Auckland earlier today.

In the early 20th Century more than half the Swiss living in New Zealand lived in Taranaki; now a new generation is celebrating its Swiss heritage by taking up the traditional alpine instrument.

The Ministry of Education has met with members of Gloriavale today about re-opening the community's school.

Police are seeking the public's help to find an 80-year-old woman missing from a Canterbury town since Wednesday.

Panguru locals are being asked to avoid stray dogs after a man was believed to have been mauled to death by a pack of them yesterday.

A watchdog group says a former patient of Lake Alice's child and adolescent unit was just five years old when he was sent to the notorious psychiatric hospital.

The Ministry of Health is reporting a further 19 deaths with Covid-19 and 5296 new cases in the community today, with the seven-day rolling average number continuing to fall.

The High Court earlier ruled that Auckland Transport's 10-year plan is lawful, even though it does not reduce emissions.

The Taranaki Mountain Airs basketball team couldn't have scripted a better home send-off for retiring veteran Aaron Bailey-Nowell aka 'Aunty'.

Students are missing school, commuters are missing the train and pensioners are spending triple in petrol just to sit idle trying to leave one Lower Hutt suburb.

A union leader says a strike could leave the country without enough firefighters for an hour.

The rise in the number of people on the unemployment benefit despite an ongoing low unemployment rate shows the resilience of New Zealand's labour market, an economist says.

It's no longer compulsory at venues, but if you're heading to a gig, should you be masking up?

Police are continuing to deal with an incident in Levin where residents of a street have been evacuated.