Taupō's council has closed a beach at Wharewaka on the eastern side of the lake, where it estimates about 20m of foreshore has disappeared.

Home improvements to the Christchurch Head Hunters gang pad contributed to its forfeiture, but they won't add much value to it on resale.

The new council cost-cutting committee cancelled its first meeting because it didn’t have anything to discuss.

Thousands of Aucklanders are now driving around with invalid warrants of fitness, but auto shop owner says officials "never gave me a chance".

The Cabinet decision not to give more money could mean “arguably the largest tourism related failure in NZ history”, administrators say.

OPINION: Yvette Martin was dropped on her head while in respite care at Carnarvon Private Hospital. Her family still have no peace, her daughter says.

Malachi's mother loved him and cared for him. She called him 160 times from prison, but she couldn't protect him from the woman who would murder him.

CCTV video shows the moment four people - some believed to be teenagers - use a stolen green Mazda Demio to break into the Christchurch store and rob it in minutes.

The senior gang member found guilty of being wholesale meth supplier for significant Manawatū dealer.

A dog frightened by a storm turned "very aggressive" and was killed on the spot, while the fate of another dog is not yet decided.

Amber Thomas-Oliver, 30, poured the coffee on the woman and her toddler as she was putting the child into a car seat outside a Dunedin cafe.

The production finally opened in Christchurch on Thursday after two years and multiple postponements, only to be cancelled yet again due to Covid-19.

Another two-year delay for Christchurch’s long-awaited metro sports facility is “beyond belief”, a sporting leader says.

It marks the end of a "failed regime" past employees say.

They were earning between $250,000 and $392,000 a year, but now three Te Pūkenga executives will not see out their contracts.

The difference between a $21 photo with Santa or one for free could just be a drive away to the next suburb.

Speed limits dropped on 140km of Waiheke's 152km, but it's uncertain whether police are resourced to enforce the changes.

Simone Antoniuk assumed the pain in her lower back was work related. It took more than 10 visits to various doctors and specialists before she found out it was cancer.

Ivett Kerekes has been running a thriving family-run cafe and catering company for six years, but isn't making enough money to satisfy immigration officials.

More than 9000 people reported feeling the 5.4 magnitude earthquake on Friday night, with GeoNet saying the shaking was not related to Taupō volcano.