Father Graeme Blackburn had been drinking before he died from a blunt force head injury when his motorbike collided head-on with another vehicle and his helmet came off.

Judith Collins has delivered a searing rebuke of former National candidate Jake Bezzant.

A passerby who stopped to try to break up the brawl was drawn into it, police say. At least one person has been taken to hospital.

Branden Moata’ane has lost his sense of taste and smell, hearing in his left ear, and suffers constant severe headaches. But he's thankful to be alive.

A man has died after a fence fell on him at a Christchurch workplace.

Man caught with more than 3,600 images of child sex abuse told officers he "wanted help"

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is asking motorists to plan ahead for their travels over the long weekend.

More roads have reopened in time for the long weekend in three Canterbury districts hit hard by heavy rain and flooding this week.

The Government has approved every single application for early vaccines of 'national signficance' - but rejected half of all compassionate applications.

The investigation into the history of racism in Aotearoa won top honours at the INMA Awards.

Whangārei's mayor has expressed disbelief that a project to four-lane Northland's busiest and deadliest highway has been scrapped.

A groundswell against the Far North District Council's proposed Significant Natural Areas rules will culminate in a hīkoi next week.

Victim of unprovoked attack suffering ongoing pain and dizziness after a coward punch on Auckland's Queen St.

Erno Bedo, 73, was last seen on May 23 at Oneroa Bay, where he lived on his boat "Holly".

A gang-linked debt collector's allegations, repeated by Winston Peters and TV3, have led to a $350,000 defamation payout.

The hunt was on today to find the couple in some photographs left to Richard Hulse by his dad. Now the bride has come forward.

Sitting on a plush chair in a room that resembles more of a lounge than a mayoral office, Sir Tim Shadbolt is reflecting on the issues that have thrown him into the headlines.

A woman among the first on the scene held the hands of trapped survivors through a broken window while damaged powerlines dangled overhead.

Wreaths honouring teachers who died in WWI have been stolen from the gates of Auckland Normal Intermediate School.

James Burnside clung onto an empty bottle as he was swept down a flooded river, then had to claw through a kilometre of bush and scare off horses to get to safety.