Thieves have repeatedly used rocks to smash their way into a rural Waikato café and ice cream parlour, leaving the owner concerned about the future.

Six personnel and six family members in Canada on HMNZS Te Mana have tested positive for Covid-19.

The raid comes amid rising gang tensions in the city which saw shots fired at a 5-star CBD hotel.

Sarah Trotman was taken into custody after climbing atop a digger, in her pyjamas, to stop 95-year-old pines being chopped down.

June Peka says her fence is fine. Guy Randall says it's rotting and crumbling. A lawyer says this war of words is what makes fencing law “notoriously difficult”.

A $25m fund for student mental health announced last July is yet to actually use the money.

NZME is being investigated for its disclosures about its negotiations with Stuff and the sudden resignation of its previous chairman Peter Cullinane.

Hoons ripped-up a Dunedin beach and may have killed a rare little blue penguin found dead on the beach a short time later.

The University is proposing cutting 11 roles from its management school - a flagship facility long untouched by Covid cutbacks.

A member of the public made the discovery and called police to the scene.

The lockdown was ended after the Defence Force's Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad found nothing of concern in a suspicious vehicle.

Data on adverse events experienced by Kiwis after getting a Covid-19 vaccine show serious events are very rare and side effects "not unexpected", an expert says.

Over 1000 positive Covid cases have been linked to the festival, which saw around 650,000 people congregate on the banks of the River Ganges near the city of Haridwar.

The sports centre has courts named after local cricketing legend John F Reid.

Reunited families and a rush of Aussie tourists are on the horizon for South Islanders, but their joy is clouded by a seed of doubt.

Smokers say the target of making New Zealand essentially a smokefree nation by 2025 is impossible, with many reporting they do not intend to quit.

The project will create 477 full time jobs and relieve congestion in the tourist town, which has been hard hit by Covid-19.

The official results of Samoa's general election has the top main political parties still neck and neck after the final round of counting has ended.

A generation has grown up while a skate park was debated.

Stuff can reveal who got the most from the Government's media package introduced after the Cocid-19 pandemic hit last year.