Wind warnings in Otago and Southland have lifted, but residents are still dealing with the aftermath of severe gales.

A Wellington theatre mainstay is to reopen with a new focus, after being closed since 2020.

Dunedin's first albatross chick of the season has taken to the skies - bound for South America.

A man is in a serious condition in hospital after he was shot in the arm and leg in the west Auckland suburb of Sunnyvale.

A miniature train gifted by the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens is getting its first spin today in Christchurch.

Almost $1.3 billion needs to be spent on Lower Hutt's ailing water infrastructure over the next 30 years.

Police have been providing unreliable information to Parliament about spending of tens of millions of dollars on contractors and consultants.

A body has been found after a search was launched for a jet ski fisherman missing at Kawakawa Bay, south east of Auckland.

The government says it is already working on a drug reform programme to treat use as a health issue not a criminal one.

Police are searching for clues about what led up to the discovery of a man's body on SH1, south of Waipu.

A group of Napier residents have expressed their frustration amid claims the city council is working behind closed doors to approve a new housing development.

Corrections may shift some inmates from Arohata Women's Prison in Wellington to other regions because of staff shortages at nearby Rimutaka Prison.

A fifth case of monkeypox has been detected in the country, the Ministry of Health has confirmed.

One person has been killed after a crash in Rotorua early this morning.

A year ago today eight shoppers were injured in a stabbing frenzy at LynnMall's supermarket. Gill Bonnett looks back at what drove Ahamed Samsudeen to carry out Aotearoa's second terrorist attack in three years.

A Nelson woman living with chronic pain brought on by years of physical tics from Tourette Syndrome is desperate for treatment that will to allow her to live a normal life.

Christchurch mayoral hopeful Carl Bromley supported conspiracy theorists Kelvyn Alp and Hannah Spierer at court this week. So RNZ confronted him about his views and others he supports.

The nation's newly branded health authority has been ordered to remove or fix a misleading advertisement about vaccination against Covid-19 that ran across multiple media platforms.