A teenager has completed a mammoth feat - rowing 1000km around the top of New Zealand.

Nelson City Council is considering selling two of its central city properties to Kāinga Ora for social and affordable housing.

Major riverbank reconstruction is underway along Te Awa Kairangi/ Hutt River after significant erosion destroyed part of a popular walking path near the Royal Wellington Golf Club.

Some of New Zealand's Olympians are celebrating with friends and whānau in person tonight, after school kids enjoyed the thrill of greeting them at Christchurch Airport.

It could take weeks for officials to work out what stained one of Queenstown's most iconic lakes neon green.

A midwife has been sanctioned by the health watchdog for a series of failures that led to a young woman losing her baby.

There are five new cases and two historical cases of Covid-19 reported in managed isolation today, with no new cases in the community.

Two people are in custody after shots were fired towards an empty house in west Auckland this afternoon.

Highly confidential meetings where Pharmac ranks the funding priority of medicines are open to executive assistants, payroll staff and graduates.

The family of a teenager who died after being stabbed at a party in Christchurch are thanking the community for the support and aroha they have shown since his death.

A long-lasting underground fire at a Waikato rubbish dump has triggered charges that are heading to court.

Transpower is apologising to power users in Hawke's Bay and Tairāwhiti for a confusing message today, only a week after last week's rolling blackouts.

Whanganui City College students received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine last week, despite the presence of a few protesters trying to hand out pamphlets to pupils.

The Education Review Office has found a way of helping schools that have previously defied attempts at improvement.

There have still been no arrests after three teenagers were stabbed at a Christchurch party, with one losing their life.

For the second consecutive year, the number of babies dying of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy has increased.

The Marsden Point refinery shutdown raises the chance the environment will improve, but it comes at a cost for the community that has reaped tainted benefits from it.

The film industry fears skilled workers will go overseas after it was confirmed this week that further seasons of Amazon's Lord of the Rings TV series will be made in the UK.