Three senior staffers are leaving National's Parliamentary office in recent weeks as the party has struggled in the polls.

Police are seeking information as to the whereabouts of Adrian Colbert, who has previously been linked to a racket involving expensive cars.

Desperation is growing for Afghan New Zealanders watching from afar as the Taliban raids homes, and their families go into hiding, and calls for help go unheeded.

Lost in the bush and hypothermic, John Tame hallucinated an igloo and a visitor centre. Injured after a fall, he needed help fast.

The police served him a protection order. Two minutes later, he called his partner and threatened her.

At 17,865th in the managed isolation booking queue, Jenny May Wilson’s​ hope of coming back to New Zealand quickly fizzled.

Police are seeking photos or video footage showing the weather or sea conditions at both Marokopa and Kiritehere on the weekend the family of four went missing.

A Taranaki pāua poacher who dressed in disguise in an unsuccessful attempt to fool fishery officers looking for him has had his convictions quashed.

A photographer seriously injured in a wedding day helicopter crash says she hopes to reunite with the couple and document their second wedding day on their first anniversary.

The 1997 Mazda Bounty, with 437,000km on the clock, no air-con and a top speed of 80kmh, has been replaced by a green machine.

After being released from prison, the man went to houses in Mt Albert and Māngere, then a Pokeno supermarket, before stopping on a Kaiaua road.

A Te Anau restaurant owner has gone from serving more than 200 diners a day, to making just $1000 a week. The increased cap on gatherings will have little impact on his business, he says.

Zoned for apartments and townhouses, the half-hectare site in a prime spot in Christchurch proved to be in hot demand.

The increase in social gatherings to 100 indoors is little benefit to businesses who want the South Island to move to alert level 1.

Small communities affected by temporary alert level setting gutted by the move after thinking they were "going the other way [level 1], and now it has got worse”.

The city will move down alert level at 11.59pm on Tuesday for at least two weeks, while the rest of NZ stays in level 2. Experts say the move is a "calculated risk", warning of the possibility of going back to level 4 if cases flare up.

A council wanted a developer to instal fences, stop clearing vegetation, and create special sanctuaries for killer worms. It did not end well.

A worker at a nearby office saw "heaps of smoke" and noticed “a very strong smell of burning plastic” coming from the building.

The Government’s three waters reform has hit a snag that could cost Christchurch ratepayers millions of dollars, a city councillor says.

Masks in high schools and a stay-at-home plea for over 65s who aren’t vaccinated are all part of a new-look alert level 3 for Auckland.