The race is on for New Zealand to lure high-skilled workers to the country as the rest of the world begins to get back on track during the Covid-19 pandemic, business leaders have been told.

A beer company owner is apologising for racist comments online, amid mounting calls to boycott the beer.

Builders are having to wait nearly half a year to get supplies and say it's getting worse. This is putting a strain on finishing projects, at a time when New Zealand desperately needs more homes.

Actor and comedian David McPhail, famous for his impersonations of Prime Minister Robert Muldoon, has died.

The High Court in Wellington has cleared the way for Wellington City Council to pursue an engineering firm for money if it is successfully sued by the Bank of New Zealand over a failed building.

Nurses have voted to strike for an eight-hour period in a month's time over a breakdown in pay offer negotiations.

An 82-year-old Matamata man has been given home detention over the attempted murder of his wife in a suicide pact.

The death of a nine-year-old girl, who drowned while out whitebaiting with her step-grandfather, may have been avoided if she had been wearing a lifejacket, the coroner says.

Countdown has thanked the public for support following the stabbings in Dunedin which left two staff critically injured.

Christchurch's plan to have 20,000 people living in the city centre within the next few years looks increasingly set to fail.

The head of Auckland City Mission says the level of child poverty is worse than the official indicators show.

There are no new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand today, with just one historical case reported in managed isolation.

An internal police investigation into an alleged sexual assault by an on-duty officer took more than two years to complete and ended up clearing the officer of any criminal wrongdoing.

Police say young Aucklanders are sharing a graphic child exploitation video and are warning that sharing it is an offence which carries up to 14 years' imprisonment

The boarding school in Cambridge remains closed today because of a bomb threat yesterday that forced it to be evacuated.

Wellington City Council is being sued by the Bank of New Zealand for more than $100 million over a waterfront building that was irreparably damaged in the 2016 Kaikōura quake.

A tech specialist says targeting social media algorithms is an important step to reduce extremist online content.

A proposal to roof the Whanganui Velodrome has dominated the city's long-term plan hearings this week.