Nicola Willis had her first spar with finance minister Grant Roberston hours after taking over the finance portfolio for the National Party.

The 2-year-old dog had a small cut above her eye and was dehydrated and hungry, but she almost "wagged her tail off" when she was reunited with owner Lydia Stewart.

An Auckland lawyer and his client have been fined for obstructing an investigation into the purchase of a $3m house.

Country has been living beyond its means, Westpac economist warns.

Elizabeth Kerekere was very unhappy with a statement her party issued about her breaking Covid-19 rules, Stuff understands.

Two of the drivers whose vehicles struck and killed a man on a rural Waikato highway say they believed they’d hit a roaming animal in the darkness.

'Cuba St kisser' Daniel Fitzgerald claims compensation after suffering a disproportionately severe sentence.

The US is on track to make daylight saving permanent next year. In two weeks time, New Zealand's clocks will change. Does it need to be like this?

Sami Zagros' lawyers withdrew from his trial on Wednesday, which means he will likely represent himself when the trial continues on Monday.

Wellington is still recovering from the “emotional feeling of a home invasion” after the acrimonious 23-day protest, the city's mayor says.

Nate Siminton spent 23 days at the protest, carrying a reminder of his kids. The toy was lost, but its finder wanted to show the maligned group aroha.

A person was cut from a vehicle and taken to hospital in a moderate condition after the crash in Tinwald, Ashburton.

As part of the Wellington City Council’s Climate and Sustainability Fund, the Sustainability Trust will receive $95,000 to transform their existing eco-centre into a climate action centre.

The Z Energy deal would see all major petrol retailers in New Zealand back under foreign ownership once more.

More than $1 million in cash and assets has been confiscated by police in a raid on a Hawke’s Bay property.

Capping the number of international students entering the country to 5000 should be scrapped now tourists will be allowed back in the country, universities say.

South Library in Beckenham was damaged in the 2011 earthquakes and while temporary strengthening work was done the following year, long-term repairs are yet to be completed.

ANALYSIS: It has been a long two years but within a short few months life and politics will have returned to a much closer version of normal.

When the European Society of Medicine hosts conferences everyone is invited, even a Kiwi comedian and a dead geneticist.

There were 663 new cases of Covid-19 reported in Taranaki on Wednesday, and 14 people are in Taranaki Base Hospital.