Sonny Page remembers a car coming towards him and the next thing "a big explosion''.

The chairman of the company delivering Christchurch's new stadium hopes the last building standing in the project's way can be moved rather than demolished.

Eight people have been arrested on Tuesday during long-running occupation of a building site in Auckland's Avondale.

A witness heard Phillip Macpherson pleading for his life before he was killed, saying "That's enough. That's enough – I've got kids."

Timothy David Taylor will be released from prison, the Parole Board has decided.

The National Party has promised to implement the findings of a review into its 2020 election loss.

Lawyers for two Christchurch men accused of bookkeeping for a gang stung for selling meth, say it's not a crime to hang out at a gang pad, or to balance its books.

A reality television star has appeared in court facing charges of ripping off their employer thousands of dollars.

Amelia Boyce was on her way home when a vehicle hit her on a pedestrian crossing, leaving her with fractures to her skull, hip, knee and arm.

The country's first dedicated Covid-19 vaccine clinic has opened in Auckland as the work to immunise 50,000 household contacts of border and MIQ staff rolls out.

Test results of air crew linked to the flight attendant who tested positive on Sunday have come back negative, while four new cases have been detected in MIQ.

Suhayra Aden would be "free, subject to conditions" if she returns to New Zealand, Andrew Little says.

The chauffeur was turning into church when he heard an "almighty explosion" – a collision that left a motorbike lodged in a tree and the rider dead.

Two men have been arrested after three men were knocked unconscious in two separate incidents in Masterton.

The incident left one person in hospital with back injuries.

A Crown witness in a murder trial in Invercargill described seeing part of a video call where a woman was unmoving and covered in bruises in the background.

People are still being warned against swimming and collecting shell fish at Ngāmotu and Back beaches.

Biosecurity NZ suspects the dead snake to be a juvenile non-venomous carpet python, and is currently investigating how it arrived in the country.

Zak Grammer and Jordan Ishigaki spent 90 minutes clinging on to a chilly bin as the daylight faded.

Delays to access service risks woman's physical and psychological health, court told.