Sir Ian Taylor has pulling his company's graphics from today's televised America's Cup challenger series coverage in protest at a copyright claim by Sir Russell Coutts.

Opinion: The language we use to frame the talk of tax with has deeper philosophical implications, so lets get it right, argues academic Jonathan Barrett.

A woman who watched a Napier petrol station go up in flames says it was engulfed in minutes after a container of petrol in a vehicle was ignited by a cigarette lighter.

Tonight's Rocket Lab mission that was set to take off from Mahia Peninsula has been stood down.

Waikato Police are appealing to the public to help locate 29-year-old Phillip Johansson.

Wet weather is set to wash away New Zealand's summer streak.

Safety alerts have been issued for two beaches north of Auckland, after three sharks were spotted at Waiwera Beach just after 11.30am.

An old landfill that spewed rubbish along 100 kilometres of West Coast coastlines will be removed.

New documents reveal the Department of Corrections consulted international experts before the mosque gunman's sentencing to prepare for his incarceration.

Police have named the man who died while swimming at Pinders Pond in Central Otago yesterday.

Organisers of a youth climate change rally are holding what they call an intergenerational protest outside parliament on 26 January.

An art trader has sent a stark warning to thieves who stole a Goldie painting in Hamilton.

A Kapiti Coast local is frustrated about the number of Canada geese that he says are edging out native birds on a popular lake.

The likely cause of death is warm, low oxygen inflows of ponded floodwater from surrounding farmland, Fish and Game says.

Eden Park will be able to hold up to six concerts a year, after a panel of three independent commissioners decided adverse effects can be avoided or mitigated.

The 16-year-old charged in relation to an online threat that resulted in Wellington High School going into lockdown remains on bail with 24 hour supervision.

A woman says she was left shaken and humiliated after her lifejacket was pulled off by a staff member at a water park in Auckland.

There have been 18 new cases of Covid-19 reported in managed isolation in New Zealand since Wednesday.