This week Sam looks at Robert Eggers' latest, the historical epic The Northman.

An accomodation stoush in one of New Zealand's top tourism meccas is now starting to get ugly.

A global expert in revitalising cities says Auckland needs to campaign to bring back workers, visitors and students to the city centre and is behind much of the world.

Five top achieving Māori high school students aim to give back to their people as they venture to some of their dream universities overseas.

More than 5000 homeowners in Whakatū Nelson, will learn this week if their properties could be susceptible to liquefaction or fault rupture in an earthquake.

The temperature of the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu has declined over the past week, but volcanic tremors are continuing.

Seven people missing in two boats near Kiribati have been found by an Air Force Orion.

Kiwi cricketing legend Sir Richard Hadlee says a new multimillion dollar facility at Christchurch's Hagley Oval will benefit the next generation of cricketing stars.

Film director Taika Waititi has made the list of Time magazine's top 100 most influential people for the year.

The country has experienced another 15 deaths of people with Covid-19 and 8435 new community cases, the Ministry of Health says.

An animal welfare group says millions of farmed salmon are dying due to a lack of regulation and cramped conditions.

A man is being sought by police in relation to a shooting in the Auckland suburb of Sandringham on 11 March.

The dispute between allied health workers and district health boards has taken a major step towards being resolved.

New Zealand will stay in the 'orange' traffic light setting ahead of the Omicron winter spike, the government has announced.

Climate change is being blamed for more than 40 little blue penguins/ kororā washing up dead over a week at a Far North Beach.

An Environment Court hearing is underway into the opposition of a water protection order for the world-famous Te Waikoropupū Springs in Golden Bay.

The Warehouse in Palmerston North has been evacuated for the third time in three days.

Emails show senior Fire and Emergency managers played down the risks to crews and homes when a dodgy firetruck froze up at a big house fire in Wellington.