Predators who pretend to be children on the Internet to meet or harm children will receive prison sentences, under a Labour Party members’ bill.

The “entirely unmatched” luxury house will be replaced by a “seriously high-end home”.

Jacinda Ardern asked officials for advice on raising benefits by twice as much as this year’s budget did — potentially raising twice as many kids out of poverty.

Auckland homes that lost electricity during storm earlier this week reconnected – but power company braces for more wild weather.

Maaka Junior Tepania has a 30-year history of offending. He could have been sent to jail for the rest of his life, but instead got a 12-month sentence.

The woman allegedly bypassed security and seriously assaulted a staffer working at reception.

The National Party wants changes to the bill so parents can't be prosecuted.

Chief ombudsman highlights disproportionate use on Māori patients at Whanganui Hospital facility.

The judge said for "legal reasons" the charge had been dismissed and replaced with manslaughter.

Auckland commuters are facing more and more thwarted trips, and the pandemic is partly to blame.

Neighbours of one of New Zealand’s swankiest golf resorts sought memberships and financial payments as a trade-off for a toilet and café at the course's halfway point.

The Australian state heads back into a 7-day lockdown after suspected "highly infectious" Delta variant cases were out in the community while infectious.

The woman has been taken to hospital after being hit by a car in the central Auckland suburb of Remuera.

One person has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after a crash in Remuera.

Mitchell Mosen died as a result of a gunshot wound to his chest on the porch at his mother’s property, about 20 kilometres from New Plymouth.

Southern DHB chief executive Chris Fleming says there are some tough statements in the report that reviewed the board's management and hospital services.

Christchurch's stadium debate will come to a head next week when the city council reconsiders its decision to go for a smaller arena.

David Correa-Hunt, 92, is stuck in the Covid-ravaged UK as his daughter frantically tries to find him a MIQ slot.

The bill is closer to becoming law but still needs to go through the select committee process.

"Go Tom'' was the cheer around Tom Walsh's old school on Thursday as he threw his way to an Olympic bronze medal.