A new device aimed to make a Nelson beach more accessible will debut this Easter.

A new round of budget cuts are on the cards as Auckland Council grapples with a $900 million fall in revenue due to Covid-19 and a blow out in transport costs.

One person has died and another has been critically injured in a crash near Queenstown.

An animal rights organisation says Sir Mark Todd's hitting a horse with a tree branch nine times amounts to cruelty, and a four-month ban is a slap on the wrist.

More New Zealanders have been parking the road trip plans and using pedal power instead.

An investigation into an undisclosed sexual relationship between two police staff had significant deficiencies, the police watchdog says.

The man was in a small boat with one other person when it tipped over.

Neighbours reported hearing loud bangs at the Auckland address at about 1.15pm.

A search is underway in a Taupō forest after a man fired a gun at police during a routine vehicle stop early this morning.

A vaccine expert says 56 children who received an expired dose of the Covid-19 vaccine are still likely to have high protection against the virus.

A person has died in Auckland overnight after a car crashed while trying to flee from police.

The RSA is seeking assurances military personnel being sent to Europe to assist the allied effort for Ukraine, will get the appropriate support in the future.

Trampers and walkers are urged to keep an eye on the forecast, prepare for changing conditions and have a plan B this Easter.

With the lifting of restrictions under the orange traffic light setting, there will be no limit on the number of people who can attend Easter Services at churches across the motu.

A shop owner in an Auckland suburb that has been plagued by burglaries and ram raids had a knife pulled on him by two teenage girls yesterday, who threatened to kill him over $100 worth of shisha products.

Expired Covid-19 vaccines have been given to 56 Taranaki children but the district health board says they face no harm.

Tauranga bus drivers are facing racial abuse and death threats from local school boys hanging out at the city's transport hub, First Union says.

A Christchurch high school teacher who discussed sexual acts, drug use and his students on a podcast has been found guilty of misconduct.