A Countdown store closed for a deep clean after being told a staff member "may have tested positive for Covid".

The 53-year-old was last heard from in November, when she posted a photo of herself on social media saying "off to the mountains".

Siberian husky cross Kyra has spent 18 months in a Christchurch pound after attacking another dog but her fate appears to be sealed.

Five years after the bright-line test for property sales was introduced, the tax department still has no idea how much money it collects from it.

Eight children, aged 7 to 13, were being dropped off to school by a family member. The crash was a “traumatic experience”, their grandfather says.

Judges say the former All Black must be named in connection with the "savage" 2019 attack but he could appeal again.

A Timaru drug dealer has admitted supplying cannabis to her 16-year-old son as a birthday present.

Another high-profile businessman wants answers over Icehouse Ventures’ relationship with blacklisted Chinese artificial intelligence giant iFlytek.

A person visiting the man told police he had fired one warning shot at property near Peachgrove Rd and Ruakura Rd.

Kiwi aid worker Carl Adams, who spent two years helping at Rohingya refugee camps, says the destruction caused by the deadly fire is “just enormous”.

In the corner of a High Court trial sits a car boot lid. Codi Wilkinson made prints on the inside of the lid before his death.

Defence lawyer tells jurors who will decided the fate of the two men on trial for the Red Fox Tavern aggravated robbery "it's not tiddlywinks".

Data recovery from instruments deployed along the Hikurangi subduction zone provides an unprecedented two-year record of seismic activity for researchers, scientist says.

More than 41,500 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine have been administered, meaning NZ has delivered 93 per cent of officials' projections.

Diplomats and sportspeople likely to benefit from getting early Covid vaccination to travel on national interest grounds.

Twenty-year-old charged with multiple counts of burglary after break-ins, while a 17-year-old has been referred to Youth Aid.

Covid-19 vaccinations to be given for travel overseas on compassionate grounds. Meanwhile there are 3 Covid cases in MIQ, but none in the community.

The controversial decision over councillors' remuneration led to one councillor storming out of the chamber in the middle of a meeting.

A waste management company has trialled a method used in the United States to rapidly reduce hydrocarbon levels in drilling waste stockpiled at the company’s rural North Taranaki site.

The jury in an Invercargill murder trial watches CCTV footage of the motel car park, outside the unit where Azalia Wilson’s body was found.