Fire and Emergency says crews have managed to contain a fire at a Taupo-nui-a-Tia College to just one structure.

Thousands of people congregated at the festival which had to cancel one of its headline events, the Blessing of the Boats, earlier this week.

A car fire has closed the SH1 Khyber Pass off-ramp in central Auckland.

A clinician says dengue fever vaccines should be made available in New Zealand, as the Cook Islands reports a death from their current outbreak - an outbreak that has seen cases in Aotearoa grow too.

The outage took out systems doctors and nurses need, forcing them to use paper for 36 hours.

A Treasury report suggested two tranches of the new school seismic projects were approved in December by the Cabinet, with each worth more than $100 million.

The smell from the massive Moa Point raw sewage discharge in Wellington could be about to get worse, as Wellington Water battles a new overflow in Porirua.

Now five years old, the French bulldog was joined by younger companion Treasure, who is also learning to ride the waves.

Wellington's Terrace Tunnel will be closing for work overnight this week.

A cables spanning the former Ōpiki toll bridge next to State Highway 56 came down in high winds on New Year's Eve.

A person has died at Dairy Flat, north of Auckland, after a motorbike crash.