A Canterbury trust aims to build and sell 10 houses at less than half the average national price in a bid to bring new skills to a quake-hit town.

The woman suffered broken bones in a suspected fall when staff should have been supporting her.

A man has been stabbed on a bus in the Auckland suburb of Henderson just after 4pm today.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced Dame Cynthia Kiro will be the next Governor-General of New Zealand.

Police have praised two Otago families for fighting for years to find out what caused a truck crash that killed two men.

Women in Tāmaki Makaurau will get early access to a cervical cancer self-screening test, two years before the national roll out.

Waikato District Health Board and the Minister of Health cannot rule out the possibility medical files have fallen into the wrong hands after last week's cyber attack.

A New Zealand dietician has helped develop an app set to revolutionise the way some children are treated for epilepsy.

Wellington city councillors are gobsmacked at a proposal to lift rates by 16 percent next year, saying it has come completely out of the blue.

Wanaka skifields are scrapping their rubbish bins. This season, skiers will have to take their wrappers, food bags and waste off the slopes with them.

The identity of a man who repeatedly hid a spy camera in an Auckland gym's changing room will be revealed tomorrow.

Civil Defence staff around Coromandel are working to secure houses and structures after damage from heavy swells, while weather warnings are in place for parts of the East Coast.

A 28-year-old man who was critically injured in South Auckland last month has died in hospital.

The go-ahead has been given for a billion-dollar manufacturing and housing community on a rural site near Ōhinewai in North Waikato.

Cheviot's only rest home will close this week after 20 years of operation because the owner says flawed government funding means it cannot afford to stay open.

The Ministry of Health says it is aware of reports of two likely positive cases in Melbourne and is working with its Australian counterparts.

Moriori are worried their story will be ignored when New Zealand history becomes part of the core curriculum for primary and secondary schools next year.

A light earthquake has been widely felt across Christchurch.