An ex-Gloriavale member said she could always be scared into doing something by the thought of being smacked. She broke down while giving evidence in the Employment Court today.

All works at a development at Shelly Bay in Wellington have been halted after kororā re-entered the site through tampered fencing.

Long Covid has added strain to support services for those suffering from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, amid calls for the condition to be classified as a disability.

GeoNet has increased the alert level for the volcano below Lake Taupō, which caused the largest eruption on Earth in the past 5000 years when it last exploded about 1800 years ago.

Workers who deliver hundreds of tonnes of Gib to building sites across Auckland each day are striking for better pay.

A Victoria University of Wellington lecturer has retracted an emotionally charged email in which he claimed students had "lied" and "cheated" after many failed to watch his queer criminology lecture online.

Convicted killer and child sex offender Phillip John Smith has lost a High Court bid to allow prisoners to have sex at Rolleston Prison's treatment units for child sex offenders.

Are today's large shared learning classrooms actually good for children? A think tank has challenged the Ministry of Education to prove it.

Police have responded to a robbery at a jewellery store at St Lukes Shopping Centre in Auckland.

This year's South Canterbury regional public holiday clashes with the Queen's commemoration, which has been set down for Monday.

Six cultural artefacts of Indigenous Australians held in an Otago museum will be returned more than a century after they were taken.

A Taranaki family making a last-minute dash to see a dying relative say they are lucky to be alive after their car was caught in a massive slip near Urenui on State Highway 3.

A Greymouth school plea for the NZ Transport Agency to do something about traffic on the road outside has been characterised as "emotional" but it has been backed by the West Coast regional transport committee.

A man accused of murder received death threats from upset members of the public gallery as he stood in the dock at the High Court in Hamilton this morning.

Dunedin plumber Rory Nairn died from myocarditis caused by the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, a coroner has found.

A 76-point plan to tackle climate change has been given the tick by Masterton District Council. But it did not receive unanimous support from elected members.

A large slip in northern Taranaki blocked a road and trapped two cars.

Three youths and a 19-year-old were arrested after two ram raids and a pursuit in Hawke's Bay.