A lawyer fighting cannabis prosecution cases says she's seeing a surge in the number of people being taken to court for using or supplying the drug as a medicine.

Three-year-old boy Axle was found alive and well more than 3.5km from home, nearly 22 hours after he went missing. His dad tells Checkpoint how the support of their new community helped get them through the cold night.

A steadfast determination to tell the truth saw a 14-year-old girl endure months of solitary confinement at a social welfare-run home in the mid 1960s.

It was pitched as a case of a good Samaritan being turned on, but police say it turns out all were involved in criminal activity.

The bodies of two climbers killed on Mount Taranaki will stay on the mountain tonight.

The little boy who went missing in Tolaga Bay yesterday appears to have spent the night in a small gully, using pine needles to bed down, according to police.

Governor-General Dame Patsy Reddy has got her first jab of the Covid-19 vaccine and says she feels "perfectly fine".

A body has been found in the search for a diver missing off Little Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf.

A group of Queen Street landlords and businesses wants an interim injunction to stop some of the planned improvements to the thoroughfare and a judicial review of council decision making around a pilot programme for the upgrades.

There have been three new imported cases of Covid-19 and three historical cases reported in New Zealand's managed isolation facilities today, with no new cases in the community.

A police and Oranga Tamariki presence at the Gloriavale Christian Community on the West Coast is being backed by a support group for those who leave the community.

Northland continues to be the worst performing region in hitting its Covid-19 vaccination targets.

A 3-year-old boy who went missing from his rural home on the East Cape yesterday afternoon has been found alive after a continued search effort.

A fourth person has been arrested in connection to the search for a man wanted in relation to a shooting at the Sofitel Hotel in Auckland.

Germany has agreed to return priceless stolen artefacts to Africa but Canterbury Museum - which holds a large collection of Benin Art - says they've had no requests to return the pieces.

More than a year after the biggest crisis the tourist industry has ever faced, operators from around the country will gather in Christchurch to tackle where to now for the sector.

The controversial internet entrepreneur has lost his bid to delay his hearing in the Court of Appeal tomorrow on the basis the judges were the same ones that made the original decision.

The manager of a prominent businessman has been sentenced to 12 months' home detention for attempting to convince a man to drop his indecent assault complaint against his boss.