Parents struggling to balance work and homeschooling say moving the school holidays forward would make their lives easier.

Two people are critically injured and one is in a serious condition following the crash on Wainuiomata Hill.

A top fighting coach was slapped with a lockdown breach notice. Days later he and his fighters were at it again, receiving another warning.

Nearly three months after surviving a helicopter crash, wedding photographer Rachel Jordan is finally starting to walk again.

Auckland Council has released details of its Wai Horotiu Queen Street Project, intended to deliver “one cohesive design” following Aucklanders’ feedback.

Work to identify the baby's family will take time, but officers are "determined to find some answers for the sake of this little girl”.

From scrubbing in new tyres to a pregnancy reveal, the excuses motorists gave for heading out in their cars under alert level 3 didn't cut the mustard.

The 16-year-old allegedly murdered one teen and stabbed two others at a party in Christchurch last month.

The 300-tonne cranes are in place. And so are the onlookers, as lookout car park fills up.

Another student has breached lockdown restrictions by flying across the country — further raising the possibility other rule breakers may have exploited lax airport security.

Police are treating the death as unexplained and the scene is under guard following the early morning call to emergency services.

The variant shares mutations that are known to 'evade' the immune system, but the vaccine will protect against it, Auckland academic says.

A man was shot dead by police after he stabbed six people and critically injured three of them in a terrorist attack - but the Government can't yet name him.

The New Zealand Police maintains an elite taskforce, the Specialist Tactics Group, trained to deal with a range of hostile situations- including knife-welding terrorists.

Auckland stabbing attack a "very big shock" for family of a woman who "should be OK", after she was innocently caught up in the incident, her husband says.

One shopper said the offender was “running around like a lunatic” attacking people and was ordered to surrender before police fired shots.

Two new roles have been created in a bid to avoid any more cost blowouts and to keep the $523 million project on track.

The 'lone-wolf' terrorist who stabbed six people at an Auckland supermarket had his identity protected by court orders, which the Crown was now urgently seeking to overturn.

The Birchfields have set up a big mining concern on the West Coast. Now Allan Birchfield - the regional council's chairman - is fighting his siblings.

'This is not Islam': Imam Gamal Fouda survived the Christchurch terror attack and is broken-hearted for the victims of Friday's stabbing in Auckland.