Jacinda Ardern announces the trans-Tasman bubble with Australia will be paused for two months.

An advert gave a false impression the residential gas supply would imminently be "zero carbon" and that customers needed to do "absolutely nothing", the advertising watchdog said.

Office of the Privacy Commissioner advised of possible data breach; HealthAlliance investigating 'unusual activity'.

Video released by police shows the exact moment a mattress flew off the roof of a car on a busy Auckland motorway and the "carnage" that ensued.

A reported sighting of an orca pod on the Kāpiti Coast is being investigated by air and sea, while Toa, the stranded baby orca calf, remains stable.

Māori marketing specialists and some iwi were consulted before it went out, says Bay of Plenty DHB, but the process failed.

A person has died after the two-vehicle crash that happened in Mosgiel shortly after 3pm.

One in three chance of 'disorderly correction' in two years, agency says.

Former members of the Gloriavale Christian Community are disappointed with the outcome of an investigation into labour practices at $41m business empire.

Covid cartoon backlash grows as image described as a slur on Māori identity.

The results do not appear to be linked to the Playa Zahara and Viking Bay vessels recently docked at Port Taranaki, the Ministry of Health says.

Findings of a second independent Invercargill City Council governance review are expected to be presented to council in August.

Families across the Tasman face being split apart again as quarantine-free travel with Australia comes to an end tonight for at least eight weeks.

The orca calf, who is believed to be less than six months in age, is now being fed formula up to 10 times a day in small quantities, as he would be by his mother.

Fiame Naomi Mata'afa, the daughter of Samoa's first prime minister, officially becomes the country's first woman in the role.

South-western Sydney suburbs have the lowest vaccination rates in the state despite being in the epicentre of the city’s worsening Covid-19 outbreak.

Lorna Jane falsely claimed a range of its activewear could protect the wearer from catching or spreading Covid-19.

People who called a new number for vaccination appointments who were wrongly told they were ineligible, have since been able to make appointments.

Some retailers on Esk St are questioning if they can survive a 14-month stint without nearby accessible car parks, as incoming city street upgrades close the street to vehicles.

About 20kg of the delicacy, which has been frozen and re-thawed while being used for research, is missing and could make consumers ill.