A household contact of cases confirmed on Tuesday has tested positive for the virus, a worker at KFC Botany.

The girl disappeared for four hours on Thursday and family feared it was an abduction.

Attempts to refloat a trawler grounded at a remote beach near Milford Sound with four people onboard have been unsuccessful.

Wellingtonians were treated to a formation sortie by a group of World War II fighter trainers as part of this weekend's Wings Over Wairarapa.

SH4 between Whanganui and Raetihi is closed, and motorists should avoid the area.

More than $13m was paid out in wage subsidies to the real estate industry, despite record property prices and a booming market.

PhD student Karla Lopez Reyes left Lincoln last February to undertake research in Europe. But Covid-19 left her locked out of New Zealand for a year.

Officers have taken a person into custody after blaze in west Christchurch.

OPINION: I have just increased my tenants' rent by $40 a week, but it's not to pay for bottles of champagne at Christmas.

Everyday, tens of thousands of people pour into cities to work, learn or play. Now one city politician says they should pay for the privilege.

Settlers claim founders deceived and misled them when promoting village.

Police are at the scene after calls about gunshots in the suburb of Northcote.

Ponting, his wife Aiko and their two children have touched down in Christchurch after completing two weeks of MIQ in Auckland.

A group of Parnell residents may glamp on the site of a planned national Erebus memorial in an attempt to stop construction, which begins next week.

Māori nurses who work for kaupapa Māori services spoke at the Waitangi Tribunal Mana Wāhine inquiry, pushing for equal pay.

Opposition Corrections spokesman says tragic incident has come amid increasing violence in New Zealand's jails.

Tangaru-Noere Turia was deported from Australia back to NZ in 2017, police have confirmed.

In a fresh harness racing scandal, a Canterbury trainer has been suspended after being caught injecting a suspected illegal substance into two horses.

Agencies are warning of a “dangerous batch" of synthetic cannabinoids in Christchurch, possibly linked to a death in the city.

OPINION: Instead of vilifying Covid-19 vaccine protesters, we should look at the movement driving them.