The band says it's "with our deepest regret to announce that our Wellington show cannot proceed today due to dangerously high wind gusts".

Police are again appealing for information to help them find the mother of a baby girl found dead at an Auckland recycling plant last year.

Thunderstorms and bouts of heavy rain are cropping up across most of the country, as mild, muggy weather is set to hang around for most of the week.

An iwi plan to convert a Hastings lodge into accommodation for whānau battling the justice system has run into opposition from the local council.

Raymond Ratima was convicted of seven murders and attempted murder and murder of an unborn child in 1992.

A care and protection residence in Christchurch is still closed a year after Oranga Tamariki launched an investigation into misconduct there.

Wayne Brown failed to "win" large parts of Auckland in the election to become the Super City's third mayor, with a detailed breakdown of voting patterns showing he was outvoted in the south and west.

Age Concern says it is nonsense for Auckland Council to suggest dozens of its flats for the elderly have been vacant because of the pandemic.

Some Whangārei businesses are the busiest they've been since pre-Covid times - thanks to the Rugby World Cup.

Auckland's new mayor Wayne Brown has been sworn in and promised to act in the best interests of the community.

"We need to come to line with the rest of the world when action on Iran is concerned," the Green Party's Golriz Ghahraman says.

The Racing Minister is refusing to be rushed on whether the greyhound racing industry should be scrapped.

A police officer has been injured in an alleged head-on hit and run crash.

An outcry over the contemporary Māori design of the new whare at Taranaki Cathederal in New Plymouth has shocked its Dean.

Tip Top has discontinued 2-litre tubs of two of its most popular flavours, Cookies and Cream and Goody Goody Gumdrops, causing outrage online.

Imagine if you had to pledge loyalty to the Chinese state just to use a bathroom mirror or a lightbulb. There is a chance you already have but did not know it.

The national day of commemoration for the New Zealand Wars was marked this morning, but there are concerns it passed many by unnoticed.

So many Wellington rail staff are falling sick from seasonal illnesses that the capital's commuter trains are being cancelled at a high rate.