New Zealand has risen a couple places in international rankings on climate action, but it has also been handed a 'fossil of the day' award at COP27.

A snapshot of what New Zealand's population looks like as the world's population ticks past 8 billion.

A urologist leading the trial of a procedure offering a 'reversible vasectomy' using a setting gel says it has received an overwhelming response.

The Coroner's Court has heard there was no record of Corrections being told about a murderer receiving further convictions while on parole.

Police have arrested seven people and seized up to $38 million worth of cocaine in an operation targeting its importation into New Zealand.

Quarantine at the border could be restored within four weeks as a 'minimum viable product' if the need arose, according to a new readiness plan for MIQ.

There were 4282 daily Covid-19 cases reported today, breaking a plateau that has lasted about three weeks.

The programme see groups of young people fed, housed, trained and emerge after six weeks ready to hit the job market.

Police are asking the public to continue to look for the missing Auckland man, as the first anniversary of his disappearance nears.

The man most recently convicted of a murder that led to one of New Zealand's biggest miscarriages of justice wants his fourth trial over the matter.

The Independent Police Conduct Authority has found major failings in the way police are responding to the growing number of fraud complaints.

A man seen arguing at a park is being urged to think of the victim and a family at his bedside hoping he will recover from being stabbed multiple times.

The South Taranaki man posed as a business owner to fraudulently claim a series of Covid-19 wage subsidy payments.

Marlborough's council may be looking to roll out wheelie bins - but a solution for ditching green waste at the kerb instead of carting it to the dump still needs to be found.

A Palmerston North jeweller says she was humbled to be asked to make the official Rugby World Cup commemorative rings for the Black Ferns.

Police involved in a murder enquiry following a man's death in Whangārei are appealing for information over the movements a car around the time of the incident.

A woman detained in South Korea in connection with the discovery of the remains of two children in a suitcase in Auckland will soon appear in Manukau District Court .

Police are investigating a sudden death in Silverdale this afternoon, which they have described as unexplained.