Climate activist groups are welcoming the government's announcement of funding for loss and damage wrought by climate change on poorer countries.

Auckland traffic has been brought to a standstill this evening as dozens of police swarmed the motorway in response to a serious incident.

The National Party believes a growing number of mental health facilities could be in jeopardy because there aren't enough workers to staff them.

Opinion - A borrower enters negative equity if the value of their home drops below the value of their mortgage and for around 2 percent of NZ mortgage holders, this threat has become a reality. But it's probably not time to panic.

Two years on from a freak flood, Paul Matthews has been told his severely damaged home needs to be demolished.

MetService has issued strong wind and heavy rain watches over upperhalf of the North Island.

With house prices falling around the country, we look at what a million-dollar property looks like in the current market.

The Crown has finished calling witnesses at a tense murder trial in Whangārei this afternoon.

The ruling comes after a growing row over the huts as the Tūhoe settlement entity, Te Uru Taumatua, plans to dismantle 48 huts - although it says many will be replaced.

One person has died in a crash in Whangārei Heads prompting a three-day rāhui.

Demand for food support has skyrocketed, but there are not enough donations to keep up, according to the New Zealand Food Network.

A Porirua high school was put into lockdown after students received a threatening image on their mobile phones.

The nurses union is investigating after a woman taken to North Shore Hospital by ambulance was punched in the face and knocked to the ground by another patient.

Marine heatwave conditions in Bay of Plenty have lasted a year, and one oceanographer says the warming is "unprecedented over at least the past 40 years".

Associate Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty will soon visit Northland to check out vulnerable communities that could potentially be forced into managed retreat in the face of climate-change induced flooding...

Betting operators have reported a record breaking take for Cup day in Christchurch yesterday.

The confusing structure of the region's civil defence organisation has been questioned by West Coast Regional councillors.

Twelve people will contest in the upcoming Hamilton West by-election.