Sandy Graham shot dead her partner, Dale Watene, and then enlisted her best friend to bury his body.

A storm moving over the country could drop as much as 230 millimetres of rain and even heavy snow in some places.

Emma Field, 21, was found dead in May. On Thursday, a 31-year-old man was arrested.

Becca Baynton says her pupils come from almost nothing and work endlessly with big smiles, "even though home is hard and life gets harder".

Wade Parata has been sentenced to six months’ supervision for assaulting his partner, who he met when she was 17 and he was her coach.

Residents are left shivering without heating amid temperatures of minus 5C after repeated power failures plunge homes into the cold.

A game of cat-and-mouse with protesters and authorities continues as the group tries to set up camp at various locations around Wellington.

The Crown says the defendant's text calling for a "banger" was preparation for the Wellington shooting.

Security fears are behind the move, which involves a major wastewater pipe being shifted away from China's new embassy in the capital.

The man serving an 11-year jail term for attempted murder is innocent, according to the gang member he was convicted of shooting.

Police surrounded a house for 90 minutes, calling for a man to come out – but he may not have been inside.

Karen Wemyss served for 15 years on the front lines in Afghanistan and Timor and has broken down a barrier that stood for nearly a century.

The man admitted he went to St Luke’s mall in Auckland planning to take intimate photos.

Rob Beard knows the grief of losing someone to suicide. Over a classic Kiwi staple, the sausage maker is encouraging others just to talk.

Two separate Auckland incidents saw a police officer crash into a house inside a stolen car, schools in lockdown and a standoff at an empty property.

Mark Dunajtschik and Dorothy Spotswood give up to $50 million for new mental health unit in Lower Hutt.

He inspired the country’s favourite Transylvania statue and taught a generation of theatre lovers to eloquently jump to the left, and step to the right - and now he's got a Hamilton Kirikiriroa Medal.

The lower North Island witnesses a "giant streak of orange" and a "big bang" as an unknown object fell in the sky.

Health NZ has launched a free hepatitis C testing campaign in south Auckland.

Following the intercept of $250 million worth of illegal drugs, police have now taken in four cars and two motorbikes under the same operation.