Police are searching for a 14-year-old girl who has gone missing for the second time in less than a month.

The charge, over Sofia Taueki-Jackson's death, comes as police say members of the baby's whānau are still refusing to assist detectives.

Epidemiologist believes its time the government looked at banning flights from the United Kingdom and other countries where Covid-19 is out of control.

Jessica Kalivati breached her bail by contacting Horowhenua meth kingpin Gary O'Connell while he serves a jail term.

Slurs towards people of Indian and Muslim descent were sprayed in bright blue on a Coromandel bridge and hotel billboard.

Grant Bayley blames his fridge for sparking a blaze that destroyed his $65,000 boat and severely damaged a launch next to it.

The crater lake is still 40C, but a drop in volcanic activity means the alert level for Mt Ruapehu is back to one.

Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta criticised the Hong Kong arrests but New Zeaand did not join a Five Eyes joint statement this time.

Three people knocked on the door before entering the man's Karori home demanding cash and jewellery.

Emergency services were called to the scene of the crash in Rotokohu Rd at 2.13pm on Monday.

Zdenek Smerda was a vineyard worker in Central Otago who loved the outdoors.

Four new cases of coronavirus have been announced, detected at New Zealand's border.

A Whitianga pilot says the sharks are sometimes 50-100 metres away from surfers and swimmers but are more interested in fish.

The aggravated robbery was the 12th similar incident in 10 months involving people with links to the Nomads gang

Experts from the World Health Organisation are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

Patients discharged from Christchurch Hospital told to pay for taxi, contrary to CDHB protocol.

An Invercargill couple suggest to Kiwis unable to buy in housing’s soaring price market to invest in a section and put an insulation panel home on it.

Terminally-ill Lynda McKenzie fears Christchurch City Council will destroy a 'eco-refuge' she has spent 16 years creating at her social housing complex.

Another toxic algae warning for Canterbury's lakes

Roy Sefton's legacy is his tireless advocacy for nuclear test veterans, but loved ones also remember a bright, intelligent storyteller.