“Is that all? That was no trouble,” the 108-year-old said after receiving his first Covid-19 jab.

Ashburton, Selwyn and Waimakariri districts will remain in a state of emergency for the next week but it is lifted elsewhere across the region.

The 44-year-old man will appear in the Tauranga District Court on June 10.

Swept off his motorbike into floodwaters, South Canterbury man David Blair faced an early morning battle for survival on Monday.

A man who murdered the mother of his child has been given a life sentence and is to serve a minimum period of imprisonment of 17 years.

Coroner reiterates safe-sleep message after finding a 4-month-old baby died due to an unsafe sleeping environment.

A raft of people and companies face charges from the Whakaari eruption, but a town scarred by the event wants to see it through on home turf.

National MP Paul Goldsmith claims the legisation is being dropped over concerns it would devalue te reo Māori.

Alexis Hanson loves living in pastoral Ōhau. She never expected a three-storey, 150-apartment complex could be built next door.

The fate of three Taranaki police officers each defending a manslaughter charge now sits with 11 jurors.

The DHB asked for a special exception but the request was turned down by the NZ Nurses Organisation.

TV presenter Kim Vinnell said she was turned away from further classes after asking that her image was not used while exercising.

Residents of Selwyn Huts can only wait as massive excavators open a sea channel to let the floodwaters out.

First staged in 1892, the 136th clash between Christchurch Boys' High School and Christ's College saw College win by just a point, 35-34.

Babies have been born on roadsides as Wānaka parents scramble to get to a hospital. That could all change with two new birthing units

A jury has found three Taranaki police officers not guilty of manslaughter in relation to the death of Allen Ball in a police cell.

Crash investigators found 17-year-old Jackson Aitchison was driving too fast when he hit an uneven road surface near Wānaka.

Police confirm an item of concern has been located but say no-one is in immediate danger.

The state of the city's roads and chlorine in the water have led to the council's worst satisfaction approval rating in 14 years.

The man was airlifted from Canterbury's Mt Torlesse with fractured lower legs and injured wrists after he fell in snowy conditions.