Janesh Prasad "always had something for someone else" as he worked tirelessly for his wife and kids in Auckland, and family back in Fiji, his best friend says.

A motorcyclist narrowly avoided being crushed under the wheels of a truck after a crash in an industrial area of Christchurch.

A property entrepreneur who demanded cash payments from co-investors to make deals happen has escaped jail, but must stay at home for nine months.

State Highway 35 around the East Cape will be closed for days due to a slip brought down as a heavy rain heads south towards Wairarapa and beyond.

Some 80 houses are still left without power and 32 people still in emergency accommodation after a tornado ripped through Papatoetoe on Saturday.

The former border worker claims her employer was unreasonable to insist that she should be vaccinated for the role she undertook.

An early morning car crash left two people dead and three seriously injured.

The Government is giving $100,000 to those suffering hardship, including people without insurance.

Owners of the Stirling Sports store are cleaning up and taking stock yet again following the latest in a series of similar raids.

On the back soaring prices, some house hunters from cities have settled on a 800-home subdivision framing up on the outskirts of Morrinsville.

Quarantine-free travel with New South Wales remains in place, despite new Covid-19 cases in Sydney.

After 103 days of occupation, one of the protectors tells crowd "I know we'll beat this marina".

The organisation has been criticised for using a phrase associated with an outpouring of sympathy for the March 15 terror victims to oppose a new car tax.

A man who was badly hurt in an early morning brawl outside a supermarket is still in hospital, as police continue to look for people who were there.

Some Christchurch city councillors are unhappy with the process for reviewing how they represent the city's people.

In north-west Auckland suburb, one person dies following a single-vehicle crash with roads to be closed overnight.

A woman in her 90s and a man in his 70s are in hospital after they were assaulted at a Napier home. Police say their injuries are serious.

Ariana Reiri​ and two of her children escaped after she woke to find "roaring flames" running up the wall of her living room. The family cat, Xambles, was not so lucky.

After years of suffering seizures, one man has finally been 'fixed' through CBD oil usage. So why is this legal substance so hard to get?

Ten arrests made following incident in Blenheim on Sunday morning.