A person was flown to hospital in critical condition after an incident in the water at Lake Te Anau.

No one was injured after a hedge fire spread to a shed at a Manawatū paintball facility.

Tropical cyclone's impact on east coast of North Island looms, but rest of NZ has more settled weather coming its way.

An 81-year-old amputee was woken by armed police, removed from his home and allegedly mocked as officers seized his antique gun collection, his family say.

Several locations in Mount Maunganui and Queenstown, including Queenstown's airport, have been visited by Covid cases.

The person's family has been informed and police are not treating the matter as suspicious.

Emergency services are responding to the crash, which occurred at 11.10am, just southwest of Melling Railway Station.

Once Omicron is in the community, it's expected to be the dominant strain within 2-4 weeks, and hospitals are bracing to be "swamped".

The airport offered up an under-construction hotel, but the proposal didn't get off the ground and it is still sitting unfinished.

Mere Taufa's house in Tonga started shaking. Moments later, a tsunami swept through their home. She says people were 'screaming for safety'.

Those in New Zealand have described the fear and difficulty contacting family in Tonga after a volcanic eruption, tsunami warning, as knock-on effects reach New Zealand.

How would your life change if you suddenly became a millionaire? One lucky Wellingtonian is about to find out.

No injuries reported after firefighters contain a small but well-involved fire on a welding unit on the convention centre's fifth floor.

Joyce Terrill never forgets a loved one’s birthday and always sends a card – even at the age of 100.

As all 20 DHBs close in on fully vaccinating 90 per cent of their eligible populations, a separate group, 'overseas/unknown', sit at 16 per cent. Who are they?

The boys want to become the first people to traverse NZ in a perfectly straight line from one coast to the other.

Police have named Barbara Campbell, also known as Rose, as the woman who was allegedly murdered in Christchurch.

Epidemiologist says it's likely the worker was infected in MIQ given the large number of border cases, versus those in the community.

Emergency services rushed to the aid of three divers who got into difficulty at Goat Island off the coast of Leigh in north Auckland.

Prisoner ran a meth ring from behind bars and got his mother, a Justice of the Peace, to provide finance.