More than a dozen people have been arrested following a spate of robberies – including the daylight smash-and-grab of a jewellery store in Hamilton.

Police were called to the serious crash involving a mobility scooter at 2.20pm and have closed the busy intersection.

It was a gut-wrenching weekend for Waikato road police with three people dying on the roads on Monday - and the busy season approaching.

Tim Boyd's flight from Fiji touched down in Christchurch on Tuesday afternoon - but he had nothing to say to journalists waiting for him at the airport.

The couple, in their late seventies, had been due to fly to the US to see their daughter and grandchildren. Instead, they're in hospital.

Both the PM and National Party leader has ruled out doing one thing after the Queen's recent death.

When firefighters arrived, the burger bar was completely on fire with "lots of flames" coming through the windows.

A four-week-old baby suffered an overdose after an unlabelled medicine bottle - the controlled drug methadone - was inadvertently dispensed to them.

Witnesses have described hearing a loud bang as police and the NZDF dealt with a suspicious item.

MSD says Auckland Costco took 44 off benefits for roles at its new store.

One says trim the budget back to what is realistic, while another wants to explore other creative funding options.

The car was reportedly falsely listed as stolen in order to trace the women who sent Northland into a Covid-19 lockdown in October 2021.

A team of Christchurch researchers plan to trial a hallucinogenic class A drug - psilocybin (or magic mushrooms) - to treat severe depression.

A woman who was wrongly blamed for her own unfair dismissal after a long-running sexual harassment case wins in Employment Court.

Christchurch Casino wants to set up an offshore gambling operation in Malta to bypass NZ laws which ban online gambling.

It was the last straw after three weeks of shouting and the smell of cannabis emanating from the apartment.

A thumbs up sign by a teenaged hit-and-run victim in hospital suggest his brain injuries are not as bad as feared.

Eight supporters clapped as Sir Tim Shadbolt chaired what may be his final Invercargill council meeting as a mayor, with one supporter saying it’s likely to be the end of a significant era.

The city's councillors want the government to consider resurrecting the Southerner, a passenger rail service that ran between Christchurch and Invercargill six days a week.

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