A car ban will come into place in 2024 for the route from Courtenay Place to the Beehive - with the council saying it will be better for the city. But it is not without controversy.

A trial date has been set for two young men accused of sexual offending involving underage girls in west Auckland in 2013.

A notable New Plymouth landmark - Len Lye's Wind Wand sculpture - dangled from a helicopter on its way across town this morning.

Special character areas are the big winner in Wellington's newest version of its Spatial Plan, the zoning document which dictates to developers what they can build and where.

A woman accusing Arthur Allan Thomas of indecently touching her on multiple occasions says his wrongful imprisonment for the Crewe murders felt like it was the appropriate punishment for what he did to her.

Alan Hendricks' father was a nurse in the child and adolescent unit at Lake Alice Hospital and he threatened his son that, if he did not behave, he would be sent there.

There are no new cases of Covid-19 community transmission and two new cases of the virus in managed isolation facilities.

Arrests were made today as protesters occupying the controversial Kennedy Point marina site tried to stop further work.

New Zealand's quarantine-free travel pause with Victoria has been extended by five days.

The broken bones of a Northland woman found after 15 months have been described to a High Court jury this morning.

Police say the incident happened on Riccarton Road.

A Jewish Council representative whose speech led to a walkout by Muslims at a counter-terrorism hui is standing by her comments.

A crash involving a truck and two cars on State Highway 1 at Puhoi this morning has left one person dead and put two others in hospital with moderate injuries.

A police officer was not justified in pinning a young person to the ground with a knee on his head while trying to arrest him, the watchdog finds.

Twelve people, including two children with virus symptoms, breached MIQ rules at the Crowne Plaza facility in Auckland at the weekend.

The sea is rapidly eroding a beach in front of a mountain of toxic waste stored at Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, new coastal mapping shows.

A clinical psychologist has likened the treatment given to young people at Lake Alice Psychiatric Hospital in the 1970s to tactics used by those such as the Nazi's secret police, the Gestapo.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has given details about the vaccine rollout plan for the general population who so far haven't been eligible - group 4.