Annual monitoring since 2017 has shown growing variety, numbers and size of fish - with a seven-fold increase in snapper leading the resurgence.

A panel investigating the behaviour of a judge accused of disrupting a NZ First event has heard from its first witnesses today, members of NZ First.

Recent severe storms triggered more than 11,000 slips on the East Cape, according to satellite imagery.

The Central Otago District Council said the possum was found during an unrelated inspection on Wednesday, and it's not known how long it's been in the water.

Emergency services were called to the crash on Te Atatu Road around 6.30pm on Wednesday.

One person was killed and two others were critically injured in the crash involving a car and a school bus yesterday.

Senior sergeant Craig Dinnissen called for a "significant culture change" and for students to embrace social responsibility.

The Salvation Army's latest State of the Nation paints a dire picture of worsening child poverty and unemployment.

The hot weather across much of the country is come to an end this weekend, as possible heavy rain and strong winds move in.

A Fiordland fishing charter company illegally caught and served almost $250,000 worth of crayfish to customers.

Tony Ellis, who represented him for about six months, told court today he felt the terrorist wanted him to do "precisely as ordered".

The public will choose the name of the trout statue that has stood in Gore for almost 40 years.

Unions which raised concerns about Nelson Hospital say it does not explain why "dummy clinics" were set up to manage patients.

An unsuspecting Dunedin man lost more than half a million dollars over 18 years.

Some mayors in the Wellington region have weighed in on the Moa Point sewage plant failure.

A review found the council appeared to have the culture of an advocacy body rather than of a regulatory or membership body.