With waiting lists for elective surgery blowing out even further due to Covid-19 restrictions, the government is taking action to try and shorten the wait, but what about heading overseas for surgery?

A Wellington man who claims police threatened to trespass him from an Anzac Day memorial if he displayed an Armenian flag in memory of genocide victims says it is "shameful".

A man angry at pandemic restrictions threatened to assassinate the prime minister and suggested he would do it by biting her throat.

Some immigrants are applying for refugee status because they've tested positive for HIV in New Zealand and are worried the government will kick them out.

An airline passenger has been jailed for nearly two and a half years for entering the country with child sexual abuse material.

Murderer David James Lothian has been given another jail sentence, for trying to blackmail a man he did not know was dead.

Sam is jumping back into the Marvel Multiverse this week with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, directed by Sam Raimi and starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

The family of a man who died working at Lyttelton Port on Anzac Day have spoken out about their loss, and their desire that no-one else to be injured on the job.

A farmer has described how and why a teen burglar had part of his finger chopped off during the burglary of his home.

Tauranga bus drivers have begun a boycott of some stops in the city because of violent incidents and concerns for their safety.

Another major highway project is suffering significant delays, with the Pūhoi-to-Warkworth Ara Tūhono motorway not opening until next year.

Residents of the central North Island town of Ohakune are optimistic a booming winter is on the way after two years of Covid-19 uncertainty.

Auckland Council has endorsed the business case for a $306 million plan to construct cycleways in the city but the topic is still proving divisive.

There have been 7347 new cases of Covid-19 in the community and 24 further deaths reported today.

Bus commuters on Auckland's North Shore can expect faster trips, with only buses in the new extension to the Northern Busway, which opens on Sunday.

Two chiropractors have been fined a total of $16,000 for breaching Covid-19 health orders by seeing patients in person without being vaccinated.

The country's consumer watchdog says Countdown's move to freeze some of its prices is positive, but supermarket's profits are still sky-high.

A contractor suffered burns after a live electrical cable was cut in central Dunedin this morning.