The government is expecting to spend $6 million on contractors working for the public media mega-merger.

One in four staff at Auckland Council-controlled organisation Eke Panuku is a middle manager earning an average of $143,000 a year, while nine top managers earn more than $200,000 each.

The Auckland City Missioner says the gender pay gap must be closed as a growing number of women are using foodbanks.

Auckland's new mayor Wayne Brown has announced a campaign to eradicate mobile black spots across the city, but a telecommunications expert says the move isn't financially viable.

Critics of Rocket Lab say there is no guarantee its launches for foreign governments will not be used to facilitate the use of nuclear weapons.

A 20-year-old man has been charged with murder after a man died in Momona, Dunedin yesterday afternoon.

New details have emerged about teenager Ariki Rigby's killing, with her heartbroken sister saying she believes she was beaten to death before the car she was in was torched.

One person has died and another is seriously injured following a two vehicle crash in Te Puke, Bay of Plenty.

The man who died after a serious assault on Friday was a "career criminal" who was convicted for beating an elderly man earlier this year.

The police have arrested three gang members and seized two firearms in Invercargill as part of nationwide operation aimed at disrupting gang activity.

A parent group is using a billboard campaign to call for urgent changes to New Zealand's "brutal" family court system.

A woman arrested in South Korea over the deaths of two children whose bodies were found in suitcases had reportedly been living in an apartment building owned by a metals company.

Fire crews in North Canterbury who put out a major house fire last night had to return to the scene this morning after the blaze flared up again in a neighbouring property.

There is little reason to conclude reducing New Zealand's agricultural output is certain to lead to increased global climate emissions, reports show.

The closure of a Dunedin dementia unit because of staff shortages is another sign of a "scandalous" gap in healthcare for tens of thousands of dementia patients, Alzheimers NZ says.

A man has died after being stabbed this afternoon in Momona, a small town near Dunedin.

One person has died following a single vehicle crash in Ashburton.

One person has died following a single vehicle crash on State Highway 35 in Te Kaha, near Ōpōtiki.