One of the country's busiest intersections was the site of a public hanging that changed the course of New Zealand history.

Māori women had their mana trampled on. The Crown had better be sorry.

Six months into a romance with a man she met on Tinder, Emma Ferris discovers he has conned her out of $300,000. That begins a dangerous game of double-deceit in the pursuit of justice.

Health officials won't say which of Auckland's four hospitals the patient visited, but say there is no risk to the public.

St John said it was called to the scene in the popular holiday spot on the Coromandel Peninsula but the person died.

Student pilots from Massey University’s school of aviation are continuing to be plagued by dangerous laser strikes during night flights.

Hazel Heal's epiphany that she needed to go to law school led her down a unique and much-misunderstood path.

Two people have died in crashes on Sunday, bringing Waitangi weekend road toll to two.

Jacinda Ardern is offering assurance over plans for a New Zealand history curriculum to be taught in all schools and kura from 2022.

A 38-year-old has been charged with threatening to kill, while a second man was charged in relation to an armed robbery in January.

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Lynda Hartman, of Denver Colorado, USA, needed a hug. "I really needed it ... it felt good".

One person is dead and two others injured following a crash between three motorcycles on the road between Napier and Awatoto.

A woman cycling from Cape Reinga to Bluff to raise bowel cancer awareness has completed the 2000km ride in under a week.

Subdivisions in eastern Blenheim are off limits because of liquefaction risks, but a councillor says they can be solved with innovative engineering.

The Armed Offenders Squad has been called to a house on Lorn St, Invercargill.

Free blood tests, fruit and vegetables will be on offer for residents whose water supply may have been contaminated with lead.

A shortfall of hundreds of thousand of dollars in the Gore District Council’s waste budget has opened.

Dion Honi Tainui could have been a household name. Instead, he died after a life blighted by drug use, diabetes, heart attacks and a brain tumour that left him without a memory.

'Brutus' is exciting and frightening holidaymakers with almost daily visits to the popular Abel Tasman National Park beach.