Fed up with the state of a house they say was abandoned in October, residents of Timaru's Pukaki St say they have asked Kāinga Ora to clean up and re-let the property to a family in need.

Review: Stacy and Adam are early favourites, but they don't get a perfect score in The Nice Block's first room reveal. Will there be a shuffle round?

Power is back on in Paraparaumu, after an earlier fault cut the power to more than 1300 homes.

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.

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.

Opinion: Saving the school holiday one child at a time while leaving no toy behind - the story of the toy library is a story for the ages.

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

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.

Sir Peter Leitch knows a good breakfast when he sees one, and now he's telling social media all about his favourites.

REVIEW: Despite a compelling Daisy Edgar-Jones, this feels like a clunky hybrid of John Grisham courtroom thriller and Nicholas Sparks romantic drama

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.

Special memories are tucked away amid the structure and simplicity of this Tauranga garden

Cancer diagnostics company Pacific Edge processed 7055 Cxbladder tests in the three months to the end of June, up 32% from the same quarter last year.

Former Football Fern Kristy Hill urges national sporting bodies to "take up the challenge" after clip of Juventus women performing Ka Mate emerges.

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

The Cape St George lighthouse is beautiful, but has killed more people than it has saved.

ANALYSIS: A tangle between two spin doctors exposed the superficial theatre of All Blacks media sessions - and a worrying lack of leadership at the rugby union.

REVIEW: There is just no substitute for wit, heart and a sense of humour. All of which this star-studded clunker is badly lacking.

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.

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.