Thames-Coromandel mayor Sandra Goudie, who refused to get the Covid-19 vaccine, is standing down at this year's local body election.

A podiatrist who operated on the feet of six patients, leaving them deformed and in chronic pain, is allowed to continue practising, but not as a podiatric surgeon.

After a tornado hit Levin, the government will put $100,000 into a mayoral relief fund to help with the recovery.

New Zealand Law Society President Tiana Epati says the number of people found unfit to stand trial over the last ten years has gone from 94 in 2012 to 195 in 2021.

CCTV shows a person walking straight to the high altar of St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican church on Friday afternoon last week and walking off with the cross.

A pupil at south Auckland's Kia Aroha College has died at school this morning and police say at this stage, the death is not suspicious.

A woman who was trapped under a tree in Cambridge earlier today has died at the hospital, police say.

There have been another 7800 new community cases of Covid-19 and another 17 deaths with the virus reported by the Ministry of Health today.

Police have confirmed the woman who was trapped under a tree in Cambridge has died in hospital.

Minister of Health Andrew Little has been explaining Budget spending to health leaders in Auckland this morning, outlining just how big the new Health NZ organisation will be.

Hawke's Bay has eight outbreaks of the highly infectious norovirus across the region.

The snow guns are primed and the forecast is promising with less than a month until South Island ski fields start opening.

Police say officers have now been stood down from a call out to Tawa College, after the school went into lockdown this morning.

A public transport campaigner is giving the government's Budget just three and a half out of 10.

Hutt Hospital's Heretaunga block is just the latest of many medical facilities around the country deemed at risk of a seismic event.

Almost five months since Thomas Phillips vanished with his three children near Marokopa, their family are launching a community search in hopes of finding them.

The government's Budget rings a multi-million-dollar death-knell for the much-maligned school decile system.

The Finance Minister says help with the rising cost of living was not a last-minute addition to the Budget.