The body of an elderly man, believed to be missing man Raymond Horn, has been found in Invercargill.

Wellington’s popular Island Bay beach has been closed after a sewage overflow that’s discharged into the bay.

The taskforce was recommending strict new legislation to manage and regulate tourism.

New videos of a gang of teens causing havoc in central Dunedin have emerged, including footage of a disabled man being teased and then assaulted.

Booze shop owner keeps licence, for now, despite years of 'illegal and unlawful' behaviour

An Otago mum has admitted mixing medicines into her young son's milk and giving it to him when he was in hospital.

Special lanes for trucks may be created on Brougham St to help ease growing congestion.

There is a 24-hour pause to the practice of busing MIQ returnees to spaces for exercise as investigations into how a returnee was infected continue.

The buoy had been drifting since December and was located 250 nautical miles southeast of Tonga.

Officials will be able to enter marae without a warrant if a new water safety Bill is passed, even though no marae water supply has ever caused an outbreak of illness.

Faiz Ali was allegedly bludgeoned to death at a block of flats in Christchurch.

Regional tourist spots will lose travellers to the Cook Islands - and only Australian tourists could make up for this, Queenstown mayor says.

More than 200 pilots applied for three positions flying a Christchurch firm's new jet. One keen to get back in the air says jobs "don’t seem to exist".

Emergency services and a helicopter are responding to the single-vehicle crash on the road between Palmerston and Hampden.

Five helicopters are at fire near Castle Hill, burning in an area where there is no road access.

The region will start vaccinating of at-risk health workers from mid-April, weeks after recommended Ministry of Health timelines.

A Queenstown business owner was shocked to receive an email delighting in the struggles the town is facing.

A rāhui will be placed on the relatively small area of the Foveaux Strait where Bonamia ostreae was discovered in wild oysters for the first time.

As the hospital was struggling beyond capacity on Tuesday, more than 150 people turned up seeking treatment at the ED.

The road is blocked between Pahīatua and Eketāhuna; helicopter on way to scene.