Temperatures surpassed the previous winter record set just last year and of the 10 warmest winters on record, six have occurred since 2013.

An anti-vaccination campaigner who this year became the first person ever accused of breaching New Zealand's sabotage laws has again appeared in court.

The draft Te Tai o Poutini Plan includes guidelines on what colours buildings can be painted in the main West Coast towns.

Known only as "Serviceman M" when he was decorated for leading the ground team after the Whakaari eruption, more about the mystery man is revealed.

As other countries continue to ease Covid-19 restrictions, epidemiologist Michael Baker says New Zealand will soon be following suit by dropping mask requirements in many public spaces.

A person has died after two cars crashed and then one plunged into a stream near the Waikato River.

Commemorations being held this weekend to mark the 40th anniversary of the Pātea freezing works closing will be bittersweet for former workers attending.

As Local Government NZ unveils a guide to local body candidates in the wake of conspiracy theorists and extremists seeking elected office, RNZ asked some of them why they are standing and what they hope to achieve.

A spectacular fireball was captured by night-sky cameras shooting across the Otago region.

A person has died after being hit by a train in Kapiti, Wellington this morning.

There are 1800 new community cases of Covid-19, with the seven-day rolling average of community case numbers dropping below 2000 today for the first time in months.

Residents of a central Wellington apartment building had to be evacuated because of an unknown chemical smell on Friday afternoon.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs is heading to Papua New Guinea as the possibility of a new security deal with the country surfaces.

Teachers are hoping long delays in getting the right rate of pay are over.

A Wellington Free Ambulance was broken into overnight in Lower Hutt while paramedics responded to a medical incident.

A team of top shark experts are launching a project to investigate an increase in great white sharks in Bay of Plenty waters.

Police are seeking four suspects over a massive fire in a scrap metal yard in the Christchurch suburb of Woolston last month.

A group of 91 police staff are taking a personal grievance over the way they were treated for refusing to get the Covid-19 vaccine.