Soliders suffered intense mental and physical pain after being burnt when a training exercise went wrong.

New owners took over the historic Hawea Hotel in April 2020, right at the start of a global pandemic and perhaps the toughest period NZ hospitality has ever seen.

Maurice Waaka said he was tired of being woken up so early, and had become frustrated and angry.

Flights in and out of the capital are being disrupted by “mucky” conditions on Tuesday evening.

Vehicles gangster Tui Miller purchased with money made from selling drugs have been seized – part of a $6.6m haul in Hawke's Bay over two years.

No one was seriously injured in the crash, which happened shortly after 3pm on Tuesday near Christchurch.

A rugby coach was filming his team play their first pre-season game when a hang glider crash-landed in the middle of the field.

Award-winning dog Rusty who was the forefront of velvet leaf detection in New Zealand died this month.

Hunter Donghi, 20, was a much loved member of the Napier rugby community.

Labour MP Louisa Wall has resigned from Parliament, ending a 14-year career marked by the passage of same-sex marriage legalisation but also clashes with her party.

Craig McMahon has already lost the house he bought with money made growing dope.

From April only two areas in NZ will remain open for commercial harvesting of scallops. Some fisheries watchers say they need protecting too.

Corrections is now apologising to everyone affected by the privacy breach.

A crash on Auckland’s Harbour Bridge has been cleared, but some delays remain.

There are a lot of young veterans out there but less understanding in society about how they were affected by their service, says RSA national president BJ Clark.

Janice Smith told the Employment Relations Authority that when she started her job, no one told her she would have to remove eyeballs from cadavers.

Lianhua Qingwen is banned in NZ, but people are "recklessly" buying it on the black market, experts say.

Manasseh Sogavare​ has blasted the “insulting” disapproval of an impending agreement with Beijing, promising to sign despite last-minute lobbying.

One person died at the scene of a collision between a truck and a car near Pukehamoamoa. Two others have been transported to hospital.

OPINION: The Labour MP's list of achievements from her time in Parliament is long and impressive. But she was also spectacularly ill-disciplined.