"This isn't an anti-dog thing. This is just anti-irresponsible owners" says a parent , who criticised the council for their reactive approach.

Australian investigators have identified offenders from New Zealand, USA, Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, and South East Asia.

Manawatū parents and caregivers are dipping into their savings and even taking out loans to fund a bus service to get their children to school.

The crash came on the same day Northland police issued a stark warning about the dangers of dirt bikes on urban streets.

Electrical inspectors have warned the rule change could result in "multiple fatalities".

After no one stopped the slide to help her son look for his teeth, Tanya Rusher says her family won't be going back to the pools.

Emergency services received a report of the crash, involving a vehicle and a cyclist, in Trentham about 4pm today.

Nearly a week ago, the Moa Point Treatment Plant started pumping raw sewage into the ocean off the south coast after it completely failed last Wednesday.

Judge Ema Aitken is accused of disrupting a NZ First event but her defence says the affair has been blown "out of all proportion".

Temel Atacocugu, who was shot during the massacre at Al Noor Mosque, believe's the man's appeal is just so he could get the public's attention again.

A marine biologist says the worst case scenario if untreated sewage continues to be dumped in Wellington could be the die-off of the kelp forest ecosystem.

A senior Navy officer pleaded not guilty to allegedly encouraging a junior officer to kiss them at a bar during an overseas operation.

The white supremacist who massacred 51 people at two Christchurch mosques was pleased to be charged with terrorism, a court has heard.

A ladder-truck broke down as it set up the hose to fight the fire at Taupō-nui-a-Tia College, with another having to be sent from Hamilton.

Police say they recovered a body from the Waioweka River after a man fell from a boat near Ōpōtiki last month.

Both Auckland students were taken to hospital.