Independent fuel retailer Waitomo is warning of a looming unprecedented rise in prices, but one of its rivals says it does not see a benefit in suddenly reacting to every single price shift in the market.

A man has been critically injured after he was pulled from a vehicle and assaulted on the Waikato Expressway this afternoon.

Cars have briefly given way to horses in the Manawatū town of Feilding as riders clipped and clopped through the CBD with a call to remember them.

A paramotor pilot who died on a flight on the West Coast was seen flying at a low height before the fatal accident. The CAA's now warning pilots to be aware of height requirements.

Police say they were called to a sudden death in Peka Peka earlier today. The property has been the subject of complaints from neighbours.

A conservation group is calling on the government to push for mass environmental destruction, or ecocide, to be declared a crime by the International Criminal Court.

Seven more people with Covid-19 have died in New Zealand - the highest number of daily deaths the country has seen in this outbreak - with 20,989 new community cases reported today.

Wellington Cable Car has installed special decals on the windows of its Kelburn Terminal to prevent bird strike.

In a letter to all university staff, Prof David Murdoch promised creating change would be his "highest priority" following the brutal review of allegations of racism at the School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences.

Food prices levelled out last month but still had their biggest year-on-year increase in more than a decade.

Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the Omicron outbreak may have peaked in NZ's biggest city, even though 601 of the 856 people in hospital with Covid-19 are in Auckland.

Police have named a 56-year-old man found dead at a rural property in Hope on Wednesday.

The Wellington region has been left with no coverage by large firetrucks this week after the latest breakdown.

Police investigating the death of a man at a motel complex in Taupō are appealing for sightings of a silver sedan and its occupants.

Research into vaccine distribution shows problem gaps

Public records show wealthy Russians own $60m in real estate in Aotearoa - 50 percent more than the prime minister previously said.

Eleven of the endangered species have been found dead around the South Island since November - eight of them calves.

Families of the Muslims murdered in the Christchurch terror attacks will be given a raft of police and medical documents as part of a coronial inquiry into the mass shooting.