After ordering 13 passengers off a flight, the Cook Islands is now investigating travellers who arrived from Wellington on earlier flights.

Julie Anne Genter points out National's harbour tunnel is far more wasteful than the Auckland walking and cycling bridge.

A drunken fill of fried chicken on someone else's dollar has landed a 63-year-old with a conviction and dashed his hopes of becoming a district councillor.

Coasters warned of possible rising rivers and slips after forecast up to 220mm of rain could fall on Friday.

Jacinda Ardern turned up with scones, but farmers with land damage in the millions of dollars were hoping for much more.

Motorways will be closed on Saturday and Sunday morning and again next weekend because Christchurch is standing in for American locations.

Managed isolation and quarantine capacity has dropped by 900 spots as Christmas holidays come closer.

With over 300 investigations of suspected wage subsidy scheme fraud underway, the Ministry of Social Development is not ruling out criminal charges.

When survivors came forward with allegations of sexual and physical abuse, officers should have done more to look into them, inquiry hears.

Jail is an ‘unduly harsh’ punishment for company directors who fail to report on climate risks, according to the Institute of Directors.

A man's attempt to lose police on a railway failed when his car became stuck, and police dogs nabbed him on foot a short time later.

Ryman Healthcare says it has taken a "super-cautious" approach by implementing the policy across its five villages.

The man was found dead in his partially submerged ute in a West Coast river.

There has been a jump in the number of people in Napier feeling unsafe over the past three years, and it's largely due to one thing.

An additional central city testing site will be established as authorities struggle to respond to demand for information and requests for testing .

A fugitive with gang links drowned while fleeing police in a Taranaki creek he earlier named as one of his “favourite escape routes from police”.

The payments will go to the 844 prisoners not involved in the prolonged riot, and up to 190 staff who lost property.

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An epidemiologist is concerned the Government is not recording where in NZ 58 people who shared a flight with a Covid-19 case are self-isolating.

Quarantine-free travel from New South Wales to New Zealand will stay on hold for 12 days amid a growing Covid-19 cluster across the ditch.