The chair of Auckland Transport has resigned following Wayne Brown's mayoral win today, saying she will "willingly exit the role".

Tory Whanau says it is "pretty wild" to have been voted in as the new mayor of Wellington.

Wayne Brown has claimed victory in the Auckland mayoralty race and says he is privileged and humbled to be the city's new mayor.

Incoming Dunedin mayor Jules Radich says he wants to be an inclusive leader for the whole city after he unseated first-term mayor Aaron Hawkins in a landslide in the southern city.

The Supreme Court decision quashing Peter Ellis' child sex abuse convictions posthumously is "unique and groundbreaking", according to Tim McKinnel, an investigator specialising in miscarriages of justice.

Phil Mauger has won the Christchurch mayoral race and is on track to be joined by seven new councillors and nine returning councillors.

Eight helicopters are continuing to fight a massive fire about 20 kilometres out of Queenstown.

Tory Whanau has won the Wellington mayoralty, with Phil Mauger winning in Christchurch, Jules Radich prevailing in Dunedin and Wayne Brown claiming victory in Auckland. See how the day unfolded with RNZ's live blog.

A court has declined a man's request to force a private Facebook group, where landlords publicly name and shame undesirable tenants, to release any information it holds about him.

A Napier City councillor has expressed concern around the number of staff leaving the council, just days before the chief executive announced her resignation.

Migratory seabirds are being affected by light pollution even in the dead of night.

Police are appealing for information after a man was stabbed in Dunedin on 7 October.

A man behind a highly sophisticated cannabis cultivation of nearly 1000 plants has had two years slashed off his sentence.

They were three unlikely activists: Old enough to collect the pension but so passionate about their message on climate change that they were prepared to be tried for their actions.

The parents of some of the children who accused Ellis of sexual abuse say they are shocked and saddened by the outcome, but Ellis' family is welcoming his exoneration.

A man who owned multiple pizza stores in Auckland and forced his staff to work long hours of overtime without compensation has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay up.

A man missing after leaving for a five-day tramp has been rescued after making a help sign out of toilet paper.

A man in Christchurch has described how a berry smoothie health kick landed him in hospital for a night, "looking like part of The Simpsons" amid an outbreak of Hepatitis A.