Emergency services rushed to Marton just after 3.30pm. One person has died.

Motorbikes, classic cars and a digger were seized during the operation.

Businessman convicted of sexual assault appears to have emailed 176 people and organisations, begging them for support to keep him out of jail.

None of the people charged are sitting MPs or current or former officials of the Labour Party. Labour maintains it has complied with the law.

Police say the blaze caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage, and about 60 firefighters were called to battle the flames.

A passenger on the flight to Wellington has described consoling a woman who told him she was going to faint.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has hinted at the use of vaccine passports in fully reopening New Zealand to international travel.

The cases have contacted Healthline and have had testing arranged, the Ministry of Health says.

State Highway 29 in the Lower Kaimai was blocked to traffic for hours, after a car and logging truck collided and the truck rolled, spilling its load.

The cost of building a house has increased by the highest rate in two years and it is likely to get more expensive, economist warns

Anonymous complaints about bullying at an exclusive private school in Cambridge prompted WorkSafe to get involved, the school has confirmed.

Emergency services called to Remuera house of a woman who died in unexplained circumstances early last month.

Study finds 6.2 per cent of pre-schoolers are in homes that lack basic amenities.

Kuranui College in Greytown is now out of lockdown after the man was located and spoken to by police.

A Dunedin supermarket manager who was stabbed when he stepped in to help a colleague being attacked was just days away from leaving the job.

Dr Ashley Bloomfield hints at more measures to slow Covid spread as NZ cautiously reopens to the world.

Hāwera Intermediate School will close at the end of 2022, following a decision by the Ministry of Education to change the way education is delivered in the town.

A man with meth in his system has been sentenced for driving a car without working brakes and crashing into a woman, fracturing her vertebrae and leg.

A person believed to be a road worker has died after being struck by a truck on the Waikato Expressway.

The Taranaki Covid 19 vaccination programme has reached 3000 doses administered following high risk healthcare workers vaccinated at two centres in South Taranaki.