Declassified government documents show officials were struggling to debunk TV1 footage of the Kaikōura lights UFO sightings in December 1978.

New Zealand authorities says travellers from Queensland should carefully check if they've been at locations of interest after a snap lockdown was announced in the Australian state.

A man who was forced into conversion therapy as a teenager says the government's ban of the practice will help prevent long-lasting suffering.

A man is dead despite efforts to save him in the water off the Wairarapa coast.

A Taranaki couple who got stranded in Sydney say the MIQ booking system is "madness" although they are grateful for the spots they eventually received.

A Samoan man who came to New Zealand at about the age of four has told the Royal Commission of Inquiry that too many in his community are being left to live their lives with no social support.

Missing Clyde teenager Caitlin Blanch has been found safe and well.

An iwi health provider is urging people in the Eastern Bay of Plenty to take advantage of mobile vaccine clinics available from Sunday.

The Chief Ombudsman has launched multiple investigations into MIQ, including "customer service" issues and complaints from seafarers that they are getting stranded overseas.

Vaccinators at a mass clinic in Auckland hope to get through about 11,500 bookings today and tomorrow.

New Zealand and Fiji are set to meet in the semi-finals of the women's sevens this afternoon, ahead of that Black Ferns Ruby Tui talked to the BBC.

Harmful physical restraints and a failure to implement Covid-19 hygiene measures are among concerns raised in a report into Rotorua youth justice residence Te Maioha o Parekarangi.

There isn't one Olympics, despite what the IOC likes to think. Every nation has its own Olympics, its own stars, its own history and its own sense of how well it has done. Jeremy Rees showcases some global highlights.

Comment - A controversial DJ hangs up his earphones as an industry struggles with limiting offence, and his station's owner prepares to release a lawyer's inquiry into its culture and misconduct.

Aucklanders have been turning out in droves to support a Korean pancake store that's about to move from the central city after nearly two decades.

A man who was abused by a Catholic priest at school in the 1990s says it came as a real shock to him.

Police in Wellington are appealing to those who knew a man found dead at his home to come forward with any information about his movements.

One person has been critically injured in a crash involving a motorbike and a car on Hobsonville Rd, West Auckland.