Ten motels have received close to $100m to house the homeless during the Covid-19 pandemic. Andrea Vance reports.

Invercargill Mayor Sir Tim Shadbolt has slammed his own council for the “ridiculous and unjustifiable” number of people it has at this week’s LGNZ conference.

A Wairarapa coastal community recently isolated by a massive slip shows how vulnerable the roading network is to major failures.

A High Court ruling means #MeToo lawyer James Gardner-Hopkins' suspension is now three years.

Anti-water bottling campaigners have won a legal battle to overturn consents allowing two bottling companies to extract billions of litres of water from Christchurch aquifers.

Students said they were "shocked" to hear about the death, but felt they had been well-supported by the university during their stay in the halls.

Andy Foster rattled off an impressive 45 “keepie uppies”, but the women's game was the showpiece at an event marking 12 months to kickoff in NZ.

Europe's record-breaking heatwave might feel half a world away, but it's not really.

Armed police were called to a reported gun offence on Wednesday afternoon, but got there to find it was just a road rage incident.

First home buyers may have to pay up to $280,000 more for a KiwiBuild house after the Government announced an increase to the scheme's price caps.

A $57 million claim against NZ businessman Eric Watson from the liquidators of his failed Cullen Group has hit a bump – they can’t find him.

Viral fragments of foot-and-mouth disease have been found on imported "pork floss" in Australia, which may have been illegally brought into the country.

A new map makes it easy to figure out if you should be gone if a quake's been long and strong - or if your place could be a refuge in a tsunami.

Residents in Canterbury's Arthur's Pass want people to stop feeding the nationally endangered parrot after 12 were hit and killed by cars in the past two years.

Wāhine Māori are helping to drive diversity in business, according to a Te Puni Kōkiri study.

Despite having some of the steepest streets in the country, nearly a dozen electric buses will be servicing Dunedin routes by the end of next year.

Challenges are coming on all fronts for local government's elected members.

Technicians have reconnected Taumarunui with the internet on Wednesday, after two fixes around the town.

Toy company Zuru successfully sued the employer-review website, resulting in it being told to reveal reviewers' identities, and making users wary.

Group cautions against granting the plan change without strict provisions in place to protect the Maitai River and its tributary the Kākā stream.