Vegan cheese is on the rise, and makers are competing against each other at New Zealand awards.

Wellington Airport and airlines affected by the wild weather say with fewer staff and planes, transferring passengers onto other flights is more difficult than ever.

A prominent jewellery chain has been hit again in a smash and grab at a northwest Auckland mall.

Police will remain on the scene in Dunedin tonight as they investigate an unexplained death of a man Thursday evening.

Covid-19 border cases have increased nearly fivefold since the government scrapped pre-departure testing for international arrivals in June.

A body has been found following a house fire in Cobden, just north of Greymouth on the West Coast this morning.

Hundreds of items of mail destined for North Shore Hospital have been stolen.

Palmerston North's grand Edwardian former post office is now a crumbling eyesore, and its owner has rebuffed council efforts to spruce it up.

Another 26 people have died with Covid-19 and there are 8728 new cases today, the Ministry of Health says.

The road will re-open to a single lane tomorrow, three days after it was closed due to a major rockfall.

Timaru District Council says it is negotiating conditional re-entry to residents evacuated due to a flooding risk from the Ōpihi River.

Trans men and non-binary people are missing cervical screenings because some health software systems are not set up to notify them. Instead, the systems notify a 'female'.

A young woman who was homeless for years says critics of social housing don't know what it's like to be on the streets in the middle of winter.

The wild weather in Wellington yesterday has left Air New Zealand with 126,000 people to move in the next three days.

A man died in Dunedin last night after police received reports of him being assaulted and run over.

More Wellington people are contemplating the likelihood a cycleway will soon be running past their home or business.

The Climate Minister says the equivalent of $60 million worth of Emissions Trading Scheme units have been over allocated to businesses in recent years.

The only access road in to Lake Ōhau village in the Waitaki District has been reopened following a structural engineer's assessment.