The man installed a security camera after a washing machine delivered to his home was stolen. But his problems were just beginning.

The flight from Auckland was unable to land in the capital because of wind shear - a sudden change in the speed or direction of wind.

Drops include popular two-year rate.

Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII met with PM Christopher Luxon and Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka on Monday.

The Serious Crash Unit had been advised of the death, police said.

Tonga's new prime minister Lord Fakafanua says he hopes to have his Cabinet line-up named in the next few days.

His comments follow reports that Fiji risks losing all non-humanitarian US aid unless it takes "decisive action" against the South Korean sect over human trafficking allegations.

The fishing transport vessel Ou Ya Leng 6 ran aground on the reef at uninhabited Taka Atoll in the northern Marshall Islands in January 2019 and remains there to this day.

Jared Lutu and Colleen Silafai proudly represented South Auckland and their Pacific communities at the Special Olympics National Summer Games in Christchurch last weekend.

He was responding to concerns raised by Tongans locally and abroad about a citizenship by investment proposal touted to earn US$400 million over five years for the government.

Homeware retail giant IKEA appears to be a victim of its own success.

Police had been investigating the proceeds of a criminal's drug-selling activities across the North Island.

The disgraced former deputy police commissioner was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to the possession of child sexual exploitation and bestiality material.

Cordons are in place after a man was fatally injured at a Hamilton Lake address.

More than a thousand cubic metres of sewage overflowed from a Watercare pump station in late October.