The pair involved in the 'house of horrors' killing of Dimetrius Pairama have failed to have their convictions overturned.

As project bosses grapple with how to keep within the $533m budget, they warn it will also be a challenge to get the stadium open by mid-2025.

“We're a women's refuge, and it has the potential to really trigger our ladies here and that is not OK.”

Welcome to extreme makeover, Dunedin-style, as hundreds of students pitch in to clean up the city's most notorious party street.

The council's order came as the author of a controversial book – which the occupiers are using as the basis for their claim to live on the land – said “they should pack up and go home”.

Both people were taken to Waikato Hospital and one was arrested.

She speaks four languages but one customer decided her English wasn't good enough in a Kiwi cafe.

The blacklisting of 130 NZ politicians and officials comes after the Government imposed “unprecedented sanctions” against Russia.

Some Tauranga residents who got white supremacist leaflets in their letterboxes have reported the matter to the police as a hate crime.

Car buyers wrongly charged 'thousands' for cars that should have attracted rebates, dealers report.

Kerry Ratana, who murdered his 5-year-old stepdaughter in 2010, has been denied parole after “erratic” behaviour while serving his 16-year sentence.

Jenny McGee will never forget patients dying with Covid-19 saying their final goodbyes to loved ones on a video call.

Gary Cowley was a "big man with a big heart" and had recently been restoring the graves of fallen soldiers.

They said they lost their jobs or medical practices, but it did not persuade a judge who said they were not being physically restrained and inoculated.

Swoop Aero will fly medical supplies between Westport and Greymouth and use Christchurch to test its concepts for flying around cities.

Two sex workers have each been jailed for more than two years for swindling three elderly men out of more than $250,000 with a “multitude of lies”.

Years after a campaign to revitalise a small Otago town ended in land being snapped up, a community group has successfully – and secretly – rejuvenated it.

A man who alleges he endured a night of captivity and violence says he considered turning on his captors and fighting his way out.

A South Island psychologist who had contracts for ACC work has lost his practising certificate.

The Napier-based family thanked those who had supported them, including the thousands who had signed the petition for them to stay.