Greenhouse gas emissions have fallen in more than half of New Zealand's regions, compared to 2019 levels, but emissions-intensive industries mean some regions are poor performers per capita.

Police say they will review their response after officers failed to realise there was a dead body inside a burned out car.

Gloriavale founder Hopeful Christian told a father who had just buried his daughter that he could take comfort from the fact she would not be molested, a court has heard.

A city "being ripped apart" is how one mayoral candidate has responded to the nationwide exposure of Rotorua's emergency housing crisis.

Police failed to realise a body was in a burned out car near Havelock North until two days after it was reported to them.

Ongoing contamination by a faecal bug has left just a fifth of Taranaki rivers clean enough to swim in, according to a new assessment for Taranaki Regional Council.

Several candidates of Chinese descent in Auckland were shocked to see their faces erased with white paint or cut out of their election campaign boards, next to Pākehā candidates whose faces were spared.

Part of a tree which fell from a tunnel entrance in Wellington has smashed the windscreen of a bus, forcing the closure of the tunnel.

New Zealanders are paying over the odds for radiology scans compared to Australia, the UK and some other countries.

There are 2035 new community cases of Covid-19 today, the Ministry of Health says.

The government agency says it has saved $100m since 2014 by doing deals to cut the price of medical devices, and spent under $10m achieving that.

Nearly 20 vehicles have been seized across the Wellington region from gang members and associates, police say.

Waikato police say they do not have a clear area to search for a Te Kuiti man missing for near six-months.

Plans for an $84 million rejuvenation of Tauranga's waterfront described as a "hallelujah moment" have been approved.

Police are looking for witnesses to an aggravated robbery of an ATM in Kawerau this morning.

A Palmerston North man has admitted discharging a fire extinguisher over police and then throwing it at officers breaking up the protest at Parliament earlier this year.

The father of a student killed by the tutor she used to date says the University of Otago should follow a move to ban relationships between staff and students.

The aim of the $15 million fund is to push New Zealand's space industry to global prominence and to the forefront of innovation by 2030.