One person has died and one person is missing following a boat capsize near Clarks Beach.

When Australian Annie Ford came to New Zealand to visit family, she would have never expected what the journey would be like to "ride instead of fly".

The police are in limbo over what to do about their stun-gun tasers.

A survivor of abuse says churches have missed a golden opportunity to really reflect on how Aotearoa-New Zealand came to have such an appalling record of abuse of people in care.

More than half of all kiwi families will soon be eligible for support to cover the cost of childcare, with the threshold changing for the first time in 12 years.

Rugby World Cup organisers say the tournament has easily surpassed the overall crowd target of 127,000 spectators with next week's final between New Zealand and England almost sold out.

A 43-year-old man has been arrested after a shooting incident yesterday in Auckland's suburb of New Lynn.

He's left a trail of creditors from three failed concrete companies, faced accusations of wage theft from migrant workers and been told he can no longer direct a company: but that hasn't stopped Richard Kennaway doing business.

A former laundry on the outskirts of Canterbury's Hillmorton mental health campus is being transformed into a centre for children and teenagers.

A Ukrainian support group says humanitarian aid in Aotearoa is lacking - so much so that some refugees have returned to their wartorn homeland.

More than 140,000 high school students will sit NCEA exams over the next month, as end-of-year exams get under way on Monday.

A body has been found at the scene of a house fire in Ngāruawāhia.

The Auckland woman under police investigation for fundraising tens of thousands of dollars for the Russian army has left New Zealand for Russia.

Opponents of the $280 million Mt Messenger bypass in North Taranaki are getting support from an unusual corner - the Act Party, which backs the project.

One person has died, and State Highway 1 is closed at Lake Taupō and Waihola, after separate crashes this morning.

A large scale search is underway in the Firth of Thames, after a kayaker did not return home last night.

Napier is set to trial e-scooters, joining the growing list of cities using the new urban transport method.

Drug overdose deaths are up more than 50 percent according to a new Drug Foundation report.