Many older Chinese immigrants in Auckland report experiencing racial discrimination during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The prime minister will visit New Zealand's outpost at Scott Base this week as it marks its 65th anniversary.

Water safety advocates are fearful for this summer's toll on the back of the worst year in a decade for drownings in Aotearoa.

The grandmother of a little boy left at the mercy of an angry man with a long history of violence says she wants her dead grandson's story to be heard and known.

The missing Marokopa children are caught in an "adults' game", says a sibling in an emotional plea for help to raise a reward for information that helps find them.

A councillor for the Auckland suburb of St Heliers says a stabbing at a local convenience store is the second traumatic incident staff have had to deal with in less than three months.

A player involved in a festival match celebrating the centenary of one of New Zealand's smallest rugby clubs has died this morning after an on-field incident.

Much of the country is in for blue skies this afternoon, with MetService forecasting Christchurch will reach an unseasonably high of 24 degrees.

Environmental protesters have gathered at the remote Denniston Plateau on the West Coast as part of a campaign against mining on conservation land.

Theft of knowledge and know-how from universities and research institutes by foreign nationals is a growing concern, security experts warn.

A homicide investigation has been launched after a man was killed in a family harm incident in south Auckland last night.

One person died in a Bay of Plenty crash last night, taking the Labour weekend road toll to three.

A grenade that sparked an emergency situation at Auckland Airport has been declared inert.

A drug-checking service is worried about how widespread a dangerous drug could be, now that it has been found in New Zealand for the first time.

A digger-driving stevedore from Tauranga has paved the way for port workers to get better conditions, after years of legal battles.

Dahlia bulbs could be hard to come by next season because of concern about a viroid which affects potatoes and tomatoes.

A supermarket operator says an attack on staff at a convenience store in Auckland last night was random and unprovoked.

The watchdog of the official spy agencies SIS and GCSB does not have any oversight of a private surveillance firm Immigration New Zealand uses.