"Excessive costs" of fertilizers due to the Ukraine war, costs of wages, fuel rates and insurances are driving up the prices of fruits and vegetables.

Police say "multiple people" are dead after a crash in Invercargill this afternoon.

The mystery of a blue 2018 Suzuki Swift car apparently abandoned at the New Plymouth Airport carpark for two years has been resolved.

A teen jailed for her part in the violent home invasion of a 90-year-old Levin woman, who died weeks later of a brain injury, will be released on parole.

A lawyer representing the whānau of a Taranaki man shot and killed by police says their statements about the incident are insensitive.

The American space agency is getting ready to launch its fourth mission from Wanaka.

Engines are revving and bar tills ringing in Palmerston North for the city's biggest weekend of the year.

There have been 9390 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the community today and 13 further deaths, including one person aged under 20.

The search for a man who failed to return from a fishing trip in the Bay of Plenty on Easter has been suspended for the weekend.

A family friend of Kaoss Price, the young man shot dead by police on Saturday night in Taranaki, says there was no justification for shooting him because he was unarmed.

Towns north of Wellington that were once thoroughfares for State Highway One are now quiet seaside settlements after the$1.25 billion highway, Transmission Gully, opened three weeks ago.

A raw sewage overflow in Stephens Bay was caused by the fat residue buildup in the wastewater network near Kaiteriteri.

Most children aged 5 to 11 did not experience a reaction after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, according to new figures from the Ministry of Health

A flash flood in a small settlement south of Christchurch has damaged more than three houses overnight.

For those in many parts of the South Island, it's been a long time since they could recycle soft plastic waste.

Police have arrested two more people linked to an attack on a milk tanker in Waikato last month.

The Ministry of Health is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees, fighting families that care for their disabled children.

The Gibbons, Muir and Pararaha Valley tracks will open again, after an upgrade costing two million dollars.