A New Zealand woman placed in abusive Australian foster care has won an appeal against deportation from Australia.

Emergency services are responding to a serious crash on Auckland's Southwestern Motorway.

The New Zealand First Foundation fraud trial has had a glimpse of the party's inner workings from a former insider.

Wellington police have released the name of the man who was found dead in a park in the suburb of Khandallah yesterday.

A panel of judges at the Supreme Court made the decision after even the Crown admitted there had been a miscarriage of justice.

Ministry of Health officials have provided an update on surveillance measures being used to monitor new variants of Covid-19 in Aotearoa.

After Kaikōura's first paūa season in five years, data shows about 35 tonnes of the shellfish were harvested by recreational fishers during the three-month period.

Three men linked to gangs are facing multiple charges including aggravated robbery and kidnapping, police say.

There are 24 further deaths of people with Covid-19 and 7050 new community cases recorded by the Ministry of Health today.

Sustained pressure on the health care system together with high numbers of emergency department presentations, Covid-19, staff fatigue and illness all played a role.

Auckland's Middlemore Hospital is dealing with a surge in influenza cases.

Wellington police say they were confronted with a situation in which a man was threatening victims inside the house - including a woman and young child.

Governments are being warned that a mass move to a vegan diet - without meat or animal products - is imperative for the survival of humanity.

A health expert says offering a second vaccine booster to vulnerable groups is the right thing to do, but more work is needed to gain an adequate uptake of the first booster.

The public's help is being sought after a man died in a reserve in the Wellington suburb of Khandallah yesterday.

The whānau of a man who was fatally shot by police was blamed for leaking court documents by a coroner, despite there being no evidence the whānau had done so.

Staff and cleaners at a Wellington school near a fatal shooting found out about the incident on Facebook, the principal says.

Some schools are rostering particular year levels home or asking families to keep children away because they don't have enough teachers on site.