Cameras will be sent along three pipelines at the Pike River mine to look deep into the area where 29 men died.

Police are working to identify the person whose body was found near Grantham Street.

The single-vehicle crash happened in the rural Waikato area of Waingaro on Wednesday evening.

Auckland rents ended last year at a high with the region’s average weekly rent nudging $600 a week, new quarterly data from Barfoot & Thompson reveals.

When Alan Jordan lost his brother to a shark 57-years ago a family in the same position a half century before helped. Now he wants to do the same.

An experienced gas-fitter who failed to properly inspect a colleague's work has been ordered to pay nearly $90,000 in reparation and fines after a 12-year-old boy died because of his mistake.

Travellers might soon be able to test their level of Covid-19 immunity before boarding a plane.

Fire ripped through a 105-year-old central Christchurch home that has been “tirelessly” restored by its owners after being damaged in the earthquakes.

Lotto NZ has withdrawn its latest Instant Kiwi scratchie "following feedback from Six60 fans and the wider community".

Two friends who spent hours searching for their mate who went missing while jet boating the Rangitata River on Saturday say they doubted their chances of finding him alive.

A man has been charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated wounding after an Auckland worker was shot in the leg.

As New Zealand’s scorching days continue, some workers have been sizzling in the heat, while others are thankful they have a chiller nearby.

Supermarkets, restaurants, stores and pharmacies on the list of places visited by two new community cases who likely picked up the virus towards the end of their stay in managed isolation.

News of two new community cases is "unsettling", but Aucklanders have "defeated" Covid-19 before and will again, Phil Goff says.

People over the age of 50 in the Far North are being urged by iwi leaders to stay home and those outside the region are being told to avoid travelling there.

Three people – from Paraparaumu, Marlborough and Geraldine – shared Wednesday's Lotto First Division haul.

A fisherman is being helicoptered off an island in Monowai, western Southland.

Robert Guyton issues an apology during a meeting in Southland for sending emails using his council email account, signing off as a councillor, for a personal matter.

Two new positive Covid-19 results could be "weak positives", and they may not be infectious, says microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles.

Southland is gearing up for what could be another year of closed borders.