Waka Kotahi has agreed to put off 19 outstanding tests previously required until after the road opens, and reduce requirements for 30 others.

Questions have been raised about the tactics employed by police, including using a fire hose, which at one point, was turned on them when picked up by protesters.

The woman has failed to hand over the $449,741 she was ordered to pay and has spent the remainder of the money.

Siblings want information about the $25,000 that their brother, a chartered accountant, put into his vineyard business.

Covered in blood, a desperate dairy owner tried to flag down passing motorists after being stabbed in the head, but no-one stopped.

It was a Saturday night like any other in Napier’s West Quay hospitality precinct. Until the shots rang out.

In the aftermath of the occupation and the riot that marked its end, Parliament grounds and its surrounds are a mixture of crime zone, curiosity, and, in parts, a tentative return to business.

Armed police and negotiators urged the man to make contact, but when they boarded the boat, he was dead.

Lesley Baxter's cancer removal surgery has been cancelled for the second time in two weeks because of a health worker strike - that isn't going ahead.

Judges said consultation around the removal of 345 exotic trees in central Auckland wasn't properly carried out.

A car that is a “necessity” for a Taranaki family with a disabled son will most likely be unusable after it was stolen, taken on a joyride to flee police, and dumped.

The Police Eagle helicopter is equipped with gyro stabilised binoculars, a forward-looking infrared camera, night vision equipment and a spotlight.

On Friday the Ministry of Health announced five deaths of people with Covid-19, but all were in hospital with conditions unrelated to the virus.

Case numbers rise as the queues for rapid Covid tests lengthen, while a Ministry mistake sends some people to the wrong collection point.

A putrid stench has engulfed streets around Parliament days after protesters were evicted as police and other contractors work to remove piles of trash.

Both have followed a similar path in the outbreak. So why are hundreds dying in Hong Kong, but not here?

Wainuiomata has a unified message for disaffected Parliament protesters attempting to enter Wainuiomata Marae: “Show some respect and let us be.”

A store owner at The Palms shopping centre in Christchurch said at one point there were more staff than customers in the mall.

When Libby Harkess-Gower was diagnosed with epilepsy as a baby, her parents thought she’d grow out of it – but she didn't, and needed brain surgery at 10.

Groups opposing a proposed international airport in the tiny Central Otago town of Tarras believe Christchurch Airport is trying to buy friends with its annual $30,000 community donation.