Police have urged anyone needing to travel to Auckland Hospital to take an alternative route.

Seismologists have explained the science behind Taranaki's earthquake - and it's all about what's underfoot.

Fire engines couldn't reach the blaze so a helicopter responded on Thursday night.

A tropical cyclone will make the North Island's eastern beaches dangerous this weekend. Even walkers must take care, Surf Life Saving warns.

On Christmas Eve, two men knocked at Wiki Yelash's door. One had a machete, and one had a gun.

Locals say the pungent pong of rotting fish and meat "happens almost every night now and some days it’s so bad”.

Fire and Emergency was called to the pallet and grass fire on Bowen St at about 7.20pm.

A Napier ultra-marathoner has run 50 kilometres every day for the past 40 days and raised more than $42,000 to help those with cerebral palsy.

A stock truck overturned in Waimana, killing and injuring cows on board and blocking a state highway.

It took 15 minutes for this Huntly home to go up in flames, now the local fire brigade are opening it up for the public.

WHO experts say new vaccines need to be developed to avoid a strategy of successive booster shots.

The pandemic has made more people anxious – and that anxiety could lessen your body's chances of fighting off the virus, researcher says.

A Wellington DHB is celebrating a double-vaccination milestone for Māori, the first in the country to do so.

A person with Covid-19 attended a community meeting in a Waikato township, and all other attendees are being told to self-isolate immediately.

There aren't many anti-vax GPs in New Zealand, but they are having a disproportionate impact, the Royal NZ College of GPs medical director says.

A person has been seriously injured and a street in central Oamaru is expected to be closed for some time after a car and train collided.

Amid surges in coronavirus cases overseas, Stuff asked experts about the plausibility of co-infection. Here’s what they said.

Rangiora High's new principal won't have to move far when he takes up the mantle later this year – his current job is just 12 kilometres away.

Online investment platform Sharesies has announced a $3 million investment from Ngāi Tahu Holdings in an extension of its $50 million capital raise announced in October.

Wendy Shipley raised funds for heart research for years. Then she suffered a near-fatal heart condition herself.