Colonisation changed the way Pacific Island people eat - and food celebrity Robert Oliver wants to put healthy, local food back on Pacific plates.

An innocent man who was mistakenly arrested and held at gunpoint by police says he is traumatised and has not been offered any official apology or help.

Emergency services are searching for a kayaker who went missing off the coast of Wellington today.

A group lobbying for a controversial bike park in a small Hawke's Bay town was upset the community had been informally consulted about the plan without their knowledge.

Thunderstorms are expected to hit the South Island this evening, potentially bringing floods.

Two women who flew from Auckland to Fiji have tested positive of Covid-19.

Dunedin had no public toilets for women until 1910 and they had to "hang on or go at home", says 'Loo Lady' Alison Breese, who has unearthed the history behind the city's comfort stations.

There have been 10 new cases of Covid-19, all in managed isolation, reported in New Zealand over the past two days.

Rocket Lab says it won't be trying to relaunch its first mission of the year until at least Wednesday.

Customs has issued its first warning to a traveller not providing a negative Covid-19 test prior to departing for New Zealand.

A man who died in a quad bike accident in Hawke's Bay yesterday is the second person to die on a farm in the region within a week.

Heavy rain is expected for parts of the South Island, with severe gales possible in central New Zealand.

Police say the person was taken to Middlemore Hospital.

A woman who watched a Napier petrol station go up in flames says it was engulfed in minutes after a container of petrol in a vehicle was ignited by a cigarette lighter.

Sir Ian Taylor has pulling his company's graphics from today's televised America's Cup challenger series coverage in protest at a copyright claim by Sir Russell Coutts.

Opinion: The language we use to frame the talk of tax with has deeper philosophical implications, so lets get it right, argues academic Jonathan Barrett.

Tonight's Rocket Lab mission that was set to take off from Mahia Peninsula has been stood down.

Waikato Police are appealing to the public to help locate 29-year-old Phillip Johansson.