One person died after two cars crashed in Karaka, while a cyclist was hospitalised after an accident in Ōtara.

The armed offenders squad were called to an Invercargill house on the corner of Albert and Queens Dr on Tuesday evening.

The body was found on Tuesday morning after the person was swept into the water last week.

As she celebrates her 106th birthday, Isabelle Burgess-Matthews says her advice to younger generations is to keep busy and enjoy life.

The remains, thought to be that of a man, had been in the forest for "some time", police said.

A large fire at a Christchurch property linked to the Mongrel Mob has been extinguished and is being treated as suspicious.

In the whole of her region, Macayla Brown can only find 12 properties that will fit her family within her price range.

The move comes as a huge fire continues to burn through scrub and dry weather increases the risk of more damage.

Sukhdeep Singh, 26, migrated to New Zealand in 2014, hoping for a better life, but missed his mother's cooking, and always hoped to one day show his parents around Aotearoa.

The dairy farmer was clocked at nearly 200kmh trying to dump bad milk before it was collected by tankers.

It is the lowest number of daily cases reported since September 28.

A fire that tore through a rural Canterbury home has been extinguished, but the property has been significantly damaged.

Emergency services were called to the house on Marlborough St in Greymouth just before 8pm on Tuesday.

Queensgate Shopping Mall in Lower Hutt and Countdown Petone have been named as two of the locations of interest.

Survey of people who stayed in MIQ found experiences were "highly variable", and that just wasn't right.

A raft of stores in Christchurch and the greater Wellington region have been visited by people with Covid-19 in the past week.

A department store, a casino and an icecream shop are among eight locations of interest in Christchurch after two new cases of Covid-19 were announced in the region.

The victim received non life-threatening injuries. Police said the incident was gang-related and there's no risk to the wider public.

"Significant" staffing pressures at St John saw five fewer ambulances of about 22 on the road in Auckland, union says.

One appellant said Rotorua Lakes Council's process rocked his faith in democracy, and an iwi-council partnership organisation is also appealing.