State Highway 73 in Canterbury has closed due to snowfall and snow is forecast for much of Te Waipounamu tonight, with close to 10 centimetres expected on some major roads.

DOC has earmarked $659,000 to guide its response to climate change this financial year.

National has taken aim at those on welfare for longer than a year, in particular young people, saying it's unacceptable in a time of extreme labour shortages.

A work called Red handed by multimedia artist Emma Hercus has won this year's $20,000 National Contemporary Art Awards.

Motorists are being urged to take care on roads as snow settles in parts of the South Island today.

The daily case numbers of Covid-19 continue to fall with 3302 new cases reported today, as well as the deaths of 18 people with the virus.

Another two people have been arrested after police say burnouts were done over fresh graves in a Cambridge cemetery.

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission has found that crews could have acted faster during a fire at the port of Napier.

National music venue advocacy organisation Save Our Venues has added its voice to those worried about the future of Dunedin music venue The Crown Hotel.

A house in Papakura at which a gun was apparently fired overnight has been cordoned off while the police investigate.

Storm damage is costing the Department of Conservation millions of dollars with repair bills rising nearly fivefold over the past five financial years.

A main street in Invercargill will be partly closed from tomorrow as part of a revamp of the inner city.

A person has been killed after a car crashed into a bus stop in Auckland early this morning.

Four men have been arrested and three have been charged after a person was allegedly knocked unconscious in central Christchurch early today.

An off-duty police officer was injured during a brazen daylight robbery this afternoon, after six people used weapons to smash into a high-end jewellery store in central Auckland.

With little time to spare, local councils in many parts of the country are putting a call out for candidates, amid a dearth of nominations.

A new synthetic drug has been found for the first time in New Zealand with feedback that it caused extreme anxiety for a user.

Police were alerted that a man had fallen into a gully on the central North Island mountain shortly after 5pm yesterday.