The graves of the country's military veterans should be maintained by a government-funded body, a voluntary group involved in restoration work says.

New Zealand came second to last in the survey with more than half of packaging assessed as not recyclable.

The Employment Court has told NZ Bus to let drivers back to work, but the company is not ruling out further industrial action.

London Grammar are among a group of international acts to recently announce NZ tours. Lead singer Hannah Reid speaks to Tony Stamp.

Three huts on the Whanganui Journey Great Walk have been closed and are being fumigated after reports of bed bugs.

The risk to New Zealand from the Covid-19 situation in Perth is low, says the Ministry of Health, which is closely monitoring the case across the Tasman.

The Governor General of New Zealand is marking Anzac Day in a video message with her Australian counterpart.

There have been two new cases of Covid-19 in managed isolation and no new community cases reported today.

Taupō man Gary Brandon is inviting a few of his mates over to his place to commemorate Anzac Day tomorrow. So far 325 have said they are going.

Blenheim could reclaim its title as a one-bus town with a service that attracts just one passenger a day facing the final red light.

People returning to New Zealand at about the same time will now be taken to the same managed isolation hotels.

Auckland Council is giving thousands of kauri trees in the Waitākere Ranges a full health check, in the latest bid to tackle kauri dieback disease.

Police have named the man they are seeking over the luxury Auckland hotel shooting - but say he should be considered dangerous and not approached.

On average, other ethnicities are given antidepressants at eight times the rate of Māori, 34 times the rate of Pasifika and 16 times the rate of Asians.

All travel between New Zealand and Western Australia has been paused after a three-day lockdown was announced in Perth and the Peel region, Chris Hipkins says.

The government is proposing to drop speed limits outside schools across the country to 30 km/h around urban schools and a 60 km/h maximum in rural areas.

Large trucks are parking in the streets of a portside town and not in the stop built for them, and authorities want to know why.

More than a 1000 people are expected to request to end their lives in the first year of New Zealand's assisted dying regime, the Ministry of Health says.