Small-time developers or builders trying to make a buck will most likely be the ones left in the lurch as house prices look to be cooling.

Three top health chiefs have resigned, leaving major gaps at the highest levels of the health system.

New Zealand may be a nation of avid sports watchers, but when it comes to individual fitness we're off the pace and government help may be needed.

Airbnb has called new home sharing regulations in Christchurch restrictive and outdated.

As heavy rain fell in northern Hawke's Bay two weeks ago, Hamish Pryde waded his bulldozer through deep water to reach the Wairoa River, where he worked till nightfall to stop a potential disaster.

The Ministry of Health is heeding a WHO warning about wider surveillance needed to detect a new Covid-19 recombinant. Here's what we know.

Surplus defence equipment from New Zealand donated by the government has arrived in Europe to aid Ukraine in its war with Russia.

A main highway into Palmerston North will no longer be lined by unpopular brightly coloured planter boxes after city councillors on Wednesday voted for their removal.

While tremors have increased, the chances of an eruption are still quite low, says a GNS science volcanologist.

The Christchurch council is meeting daily with an anti-mandate group who are camping on earthquake-damaged land in the city, as it tries to determine if red zone land is considered a park.

Christchurch city councillors have been told it would cost $63 million and take at least three years to fluoridate the city's water supply.

A Tauranga man has been sentenced in Auckland District Court today for trying to smuggle exotic plants "by stealth" after repeated warnings.

There are 12,575 new community cases of Covid-19 today, with 654 people in hospital and 15 further deaths reported.

Auckland Transport says it's struggling to afford an essential level of public transport services, as it tries to lure people back to buses, trains and ferries.

Windy and unfavourable weather conditions have put efforts to fight a large fire south of Invercargill on hold.

Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield's term was due to end in June next year, but he is set to depart in July.

Two youth organisations have pulled out of a $2.4m Oranga Tamariki campaign saying it verges on exploiting young people.

A six-week project to remove the surveillance domes and antennae at Waihōpai Station near Blenheim, is underway.