A woman who lost more than half a million dollars in a dating app scam has been told by her bank she’s liable for the loss.

A group of women threatened with murder by a neighbour want their landlord, Kāinga Ora, to take action. So far nothing has changed.

Property company Reed Myers tried to buy a house for three-times bankrupt developer Peter Chevin, but then couldn't come up with the money.

Doctors thought she was too young for ovarian cancer until a large tumour was removed from Chloe Pointon's left ovary.

“If we want our tech workforce to be world leaders, it makes sense they learn from world leaders," Minister David Clark says in a $20m pre-Budget announcement.

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake that rattled Wellington on Sunday morning was felt as far away as Auckland.

Lyn Webster was spending $300 a week on groceries. Then she slashed her budget to $1000 - for an entire year. Now she barely remembers her last supermarket trips.

An English shearer has been ordered to pay $2500 to a man he punched and kicked as he lay on the ground during a serious assault in Waimate.

The family of a man missing for more than nine months fear he has been killed and claim the police have failed to investigate properly because he is a known criminal.

He’s racked up more than 250 convictions and has at least 40 aliases, but now conman Wayne Eaglesome says he’s “sorry”, in what he says is his first and final interview.

Emergency services responded at around 3.30am after the body was found on Wakefield Road.

Does New Zealand still offer its young people a future or is life here just getting too hard?

At first approach only one insurer offered cover - with a $250,000 excess. The landlord has found cover, but says the situation hints at discrimination.

Residents in Tauranga's Maungatapu area will notice an increased police presence in the coming days amid an ongoing homicide investigation.

The "cookie-cutter, one size fits all approach" was prioritising Pākehā family needs, an acclaimed Ngāpuhi architect says.

Occasionally Bob Silk has a nightmare. It’s the same one he has been having off and on for 68 years. It Christmas Day, 1953. And he’s at Tangiwai.

OPINION: They say, in comedy, that timing is everything. The same might be said of city planning - get it wrong, and it’s just a bad joke.

One person had to be freed by fire crews after a vehicle went into a ditch and overturned in Christchurch.

A heavy rain watch was issued along the West Coast over the weekend, while forecasters urged care as the front made its way up the South Island.

Police are investigating the death of Mitchell Te Kani on Saturday night as a suspected homicide, with his devastated family pointing to a possible dispute.